Every accepted public quote

“I feel like everyone is really craving people to come out. People want - they need - to see that there are people like me playing soccer for the good ol' U.S. of A.”

“My wife is great. She always goes to the bank to see if the check has cleared.”

“I'm not saying that people should believe in a specific thing or a specific way, but if everyone has the knowledge they need to have, then they can make their own decisions. That's the key t...”

“I just didn't feel like there would be a lot of opportunities for me in Birmingham.”

“Republicans' focus on defunding or scaling back Obamacare - an unpopular entitlement program - rather than entitlements generally, namely Social Security and Medicare, has raised questions a...”

“Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join.”

“I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are lo...”

“We're saying this to both countries: We want a two-state solution. We want a Jewish state of Israel and alongside a independent Palestinian state. Unilateral measures are not helping at all...”

“I love my mom with all my heart. She's my best friend.”

“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.”

“Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, th...”

“I enjoy meeting not only contemporary children, but yesterday's children as well. It's nice to talk about the experiences we shared, they tell me, 'You were a good friend.' That's the warmes...”

“I use a toothbrush on my lips as a lip scrub; occasionally, I use a toothbrush with some dark eye shadow on my eye brows if I want to fill them in. And if I want a really thick, textured loo...”

“In the black sororities, they celebrate achievement academically, and they really do work toward community service. As much as the white sororities claim that's the case in their groups, it'...”

“But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life.”

“Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.”

“That what it means love is you my love. You my love, you are the true meaning. The meaning of true unconditional love.”

“What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire peo...”

“Every single laundromat, grocery store, everything is called 'Lupita' in Mexico.”

“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”

“So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same considera...”

“Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.”

“Changes in relative ionic concentration across the postsynaptic membrane are readily effected by altering the ionic composition of the external medium.”

“The Tea Party was regularly smeared in media as a violent, bigoted, 'astroturf' movement hellbent on opposing the first black president because of his skin color rather than his big-governme...”

“Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.”

“I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.”

“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”

“As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy.”

“The most important question in 21st-century economics may well be, 'What should we do with all the superfluous people, once we have highly intelligent non-conscious algorithms that can do al...”

“You have to be careful of social climbers. There are a lot of potholes out there.”

“When I was a West Virginia lad of 17, I met a Massachusetts lad of 42 by the name of John F. Kennedy. At the time, I was in a bright orange suit that I had just purchased to wear to the 1960...”

“If we live in a perpetual state of outrage, Trump wins. Because when we become depleted and exhausted and sapped of our energy, we're not as resourceful, creative, or effective.”

“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”

“I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea”

“Growing up in Scotland and living in Glasgow, you see the heritage that religion has had and how something that, in theory, is about kindness and community and caring for each other is used...”

“I am a total loser, in every aspect of my life. I rarely go out. I have a great family and we spend all our time together. I work hard and play hard with them.”

“I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.”

“I think it is important to remember that there are so many different ways to be sisters.”

“The notion of freedom could make even peace and order seem oppressive, generate the suspicion of some hidden purpose, some vast deceit, some unspecified crime being perpetrated beyond human...”

“I think for hundreds of years or for a much longer time, people have been fighting, professional athletes have been fighting in a ring. So it's just the way it should be. There's no sense in...”

“You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all a...”

“My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts that's a movie star. But when people d...”

“I almost always urge people to write in the first person. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.”

“The great British public is renowned throughout the world for its sense of humour.”

“Even if you don't like colours, you will end up having something red. For everyone who doesn't like colour, red is a symbol of a lot of culture. It has a different signification but never a...”

“I feel more like an environmentalist since I've been up here. There are parts of the Earth that are covered with pollution all the time. I saw weather that was unexpected. Storms bigger than...”

“When I think of Paisley, I think of everything that has shaped my life.”

“Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.”