Every accepted public quote

“The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!”

“Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.”

“I know it might sound weird, but empathy is one of the greatest creators of energy. It's counterintuitive because it's selfless.”

“For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.”

“Latin America seemed to be a land where there were only dictators, revolutionaries, catastrophes. Now we know that Latin America can produce also artists, musicians, painters, thinkers, and...”

“a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long.”

“You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.”

“If we want the banks to lend - and we all do - if we want the economy to expand - and we all do - do you really want to start confining the banks in their ability to make profits in order to...”

“Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.”

“There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.”

“I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they're often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth.”

“If you look at me close enough, there's a small resemblance to a chicken nugget. I don't know if it's my skin texture or my hair, but the resemblance is definitely there.”

“January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study wh...”

“An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.”

“Mike Tyson notoriously looked for a way out against Evander Holyfield when it was clear Holyfield had his number. Suddenly, Tyson's cowardice in gnawing off Holyfield's ear overshadowed near...”

“Dealing with sketch comedy and buddy teams like Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby - I just loved buddy comedies.”

“Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish.”

“When I'm an old lady, I'm going to have my pick of the young men. They'll be like, 'She's Miss Mary Jane!' The young boys will think I'm a hot old lady.”

“The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 provi...”

“What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your tongue.”

“There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.”

“To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.”

“Perhaps the biggest economic shift during Obama's presidency came from a piece of legislation that wasn't sold as such. On March 21, 2010, Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, better kno...”

“Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.”

“It's just that I can write something nice is what motivates me.”

“It was if I made love to a nymph of the mountains or air or wind and she had come to me to make me fall in love and leave, with some grand plan behind those actions. The last time I saw her...”

“Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of g...”

“I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.”

“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.”

“I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.”

“My father was a small business owner. When I was growing up, he ran a one-hour photo store - back when there were one-hour photo stores.”

“People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey......”

“Benchmark has threatened to block investments that could bolster Uber's competitive position in global markets by bargaining over board seats and its own control.”

“Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.”

“It is every one's sacred duty to keep himself in a condition to do the biggest thing possible to him.”

“My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'”

“I think my favorite film of all time has to be 'The Illusionist' by Sylvain Chomet. Beautiful plot, beautiful story. You know, not much happens, but it's beautiful. And when I was young, 'Th...”

“When you're in my arms, I know you're mine. But your feet are so swift, so swift, they carry you as lightly as wings, I never know where, too fast, too fast away from me.”

“'Wayne of Gotham' is very much a father-and-son exploration. We've always seen Thomas Wayne through the years as this figure carved in marble; this perfect man. The only thing we really know...”

“It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the...”

“My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art.”

“Social media is so immediate and in your face that I know many people have been helped and many people who have been traumatised by their entire timeline filled with 'me too.'”

“I've always dressed the same. I've never made a fashion mistake. I've always worn utilitarian. I started my collection because I wanted certain specific things, but before that it was vintag...”

“I don't ever want to lose that mind-set where you've got to be able to realize different ideas-slash-fantasies-slash-possibilities in your life.”

“Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.”

“I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.”

“Try to be thoughtful, don't make the poor man say it; see how human he is, he has children of his own, it is your job to ask: Is she dead? And he will nod and say yes And now he can never no...”

“Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.”