Every accepted public quote

“I like books that explore identity and youth culture or rites of passage.”

“Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.”

“Yerry Mina's a great guy. He's also a great dancer! When he played for Palmeira,s he'd always celebrate with a dance. We became friends, and I speak to him regularly.”

“When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.”

“The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasi...”

“To love God with all you heart, all your mind and all your soul, you must surrender all that you have, all that you know and all that you are.”

“Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.”

“The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.”

“Our legacy platforms have served us well for decades, but we're running out of upgrades that will keep us ahead. Technology is changing too fast, and our enemies are too adaptable.”

“If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse -...”

“In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized...”

“I'm obsessed with Michael Fassbender. He's unbelievable. I think he's a modern day Brando. Every movie that he's done in the past couple years, I just died for him. He's extremely fascinatin...”

“The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.”

“I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.”

“My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.”

“I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.”

“I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.”

“Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who f...”

“What has too often happened in the past is that people have threatened punishment but have failed to carry it out. It's imperative in any initiative that is undertaken that punishment be rea...”

“The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the pheno...”

“I become mad when I work. It's like a fever that grows; I don't need to choose just one thing.”

“I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminat...”

“Sadly, when pastors choose to neglect controversial issues, they do great damage to the spiritual growth of their congregates. We have generations of young people in our churches who simply...”

“While the United States is closing doors, Canada is opening them. While U.S. President Donald Trump is slouching toward authoritarianism, Canada is safeguarding democracy.”

“What love is depends on where you are in relation to it. Secure in it, it can feel as mundane and necessary as air - you exist within it, almost unnoticing. Deprived of it, it can feel like...”

“I grew up eating and loving Persian food, going to school, and everyone making fun of me.”

“Reparations - not just aid - should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and - together with other criminal states...”

“I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraw...”

“The whole realm of morality and ethics is something that has escaped the attention of women, by and large. And it needs the attention of intellectual women most desperately.”

“Northern Irish people tend to have this sharp, dark sense of humour.”

“I want to take all our best moments, put them in a jar, and take them out like cookies and savor each one of them forever.”

“Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous charact...”

“Minimum information given with maximum politeness.”

“The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full...”

“What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding”

“Etre dans le vent, c'est avoir le destin des feuilles mortes.”

“It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.”

“Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.”

“There's a bit more of a safe distance when you're making a narrative movie, a bit more perspective. Audiences can separate themselves from the harsh reality of the facts a little bit more an...”

“In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn't understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-makers didn't understand what we were doing, either. There were actual fistfights between film-ma...”

“When I'm at the greatest odds with my body, it's usually because I feel my body's betraying me, whether that's been in the past, struggling with my weight and feeling that I couldn't eat wha...”

“I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.”

“I put my hand on the altar rail. 'What if ... what if Heaven is real, but only in moments? Like a glass of water on a hot day when you're dying of thirst, or when someone's nice to you for n...”

“You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected lea...”

“I was too restless as a boy to sit through an entire mass. It was akin to aversion training. I looked at it like a puppet show with a totally predictable story line. The only aspect I really...”

“What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.”

“When the code of laws is once fixed, it should be observed in the literal sense, and nothing more is left to the judge than to determine whether an action is or is not conformable to the wri...”

“We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.”