Every accepted public quote

“First and foremost, I am me. I'm real. I don't write to impress. I write to express.”

“I ran straight through the boundaries a married couple should live by.”

“I don't think we should stop emphasizing race because I think, you know, race is still very, very important, and we have to recognize that and continue to introduce programs to address racia...”

“In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.”

“Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportu...”

“After church on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, my family would go chop down our Christmas tree. Once it was home and placed in its stand, Mom and I would painstakingly decorate our tree. It...”

“The Lord doesn't want anybody in His house who has to be dragged there.”

“I'm not sure how young kids get to the point where they're memorizing and knowing songs, but I knew the words to 'Missing You' from John Waite probably from when I was three years old. For w...”

“TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And peop...”

“Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.”

“I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.”

“The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.”

“When I left Tinder, I had no intention of getting back into the dating industry. What I ultimately wanted to do was start this contagious complimentary social network, where kindness was at...”

“The secret of happiness ... is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm, always lucid, always willing "to be joined to the universe without being more conscious of it than an idiot...”

“When Dad came home from work, he'd turn our family dinners into tutorials on business, money, sales, and profit margins. He shared fascinating stories about his customers, marketing, and my...”

“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.”

“The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over...”

“Perhaps the biggest boost to the LePenization of French politics came from Nicolas Sarkozy. As president of France between 2007 and 2012, he actively courted FN voters and helped dismantle t...”

“I don't know what to say about it except Tom Hanks is a great person, a serious person; he's dissatisfied in a very likeable way, in a very discreet way, and Steven Spielberg is similar in h...”

“There are a few elements - especially platinum and palladium - that have the amazing ability to absorb up to 900 times their own volume in hydrogen gas. To get a sense of the scale there, th...”

“The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forge...”

“Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inner love; it will transform you, it will divinise you, it will immortalise you.”

“We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the s...”

“The main thing that excites me is that games are successful everywhere now. Now it's successful everywhere, and that's really important for the health of the industry.”

“I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.”

“When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a great, big rig and a cape and everything, and it was very emba...”

“I get a huge buzz from spending time with kids.”

“Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.”

“You will be a great queen when you come back, you know. And someday you'll love me the way you love your wolf.”

“I asked my kids, 'Do you know what Papa used to do.' They said, 'You were a boxer, you won the Olympics!' And that's what they know.”

“Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.”

“When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.”

“None of us are made to be worshipped, and when we take that in, we get sick.”

“I think it's easier to identify with guys who are just trying to make a living and working day to day.”

“Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.”

“I wanted to entertain and make people laugh. I think it really hit in third grade, but once I was in high school, I joined chamber choir. I wanted to do musical theater, too, but they had re...”

“I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.”

“To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.”

“Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.”

“Silence is a universal language. It's like music or painting.”

“It is a very brave choice to go against traditional medicine and embrace the alternative route. It's easier to try the traditional route and then, if it fails, go to the alternatives, but of...”

“Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.”

“I am a multilateralist. I am deeply convinced that there is no other way to deal with global challenges than with global responses, and organised in a multilateral way.”

“Justice delayed is justice denied.”

“I'm too shy to do kissing scenes.”

“Its okay to lose faith when things don't go right. Just ensure your pathway and remember to shine bright.”

“Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.”

“Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner...”