Every accepted public quote

“I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative.”

“I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.”

“Create a vision for the life you really want and then work relentlessly towards making it a reality.”

“In Cincy, we're told how much Gatorade we could take home. In Houston, we get what we request. You get soap and deodorant at your request. You don't have a roommate on road trips.”

“I grew up in a low-income area of Tokyo. Like most homes in Tokyo, ours was small. It was a free-standing, two-family rental duplex built 30 years earlier.”

“The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat.”

“I was born in Oslo, Norway, but now live in the suburbs of Southwest London, right near the River Thames. It's a lovely part of the world.”

“I truly do believe that history teaches that weakness arouses evil, and whether it be the horrific attack in France, the inspired attacks here in the United States, the instability in Turkey...”

“Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends. Like waves to make the pebbles dance on m...”

“I'm a huge mediator.”

“I think the Republican Party is supposed to be the party of less government intrusion.”

“My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.”

“I don't think I think things through like regular people would. I could be a real hateful person, and I also don't really care about my own well-being, I guess. I just kind of have that knac...”

“There are no names that do not desire fame because we come from God.”

“I saw the look in his eyes before I heard his words, and for the first time in my life I felt the weight of my own bones.”

“Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.”

“I guess the headline is that you mustn't tough it out assuming it's 'normal' to feel incredible pain when you're preggo or post-partum, or be afraid to try a new specialist or a new kind of...”

“I've been missing playing Pragya ever since I started shooting as Munni. I hope viewers will be happy to see their favourite character Pragya back on 'Kumkum Bhagya' and will welcome me back...”

“Politics is the art of controlling your environment.”

“Growing up, David Seaman was a massive role model for me. Peter Schmeichel and him were the ones I looked up to.”

“Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.”

“We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, wh...”

“We've become accustomed to repurposing and living vicariously through other people's work instead of going out and making our own.”

“An elephant funeral makes me weep every time, and so does an ad with a kid leaving home for college.”

“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.”

“I'm basically a really happy person. My life is nuts, but it feels complete.”

“All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.”

“Paralyze resistance with persistence.”

“I would like to be able to disappear whenever I do something dorky.”

“Blind obedience to books, whether it is the Bible, the Quran, the Vedas or any other, has erected more and more walls in this world - and to defend those walls, even more fences on both side...”

“What's been fascinating about shooting my series 'American Woman' is the ubiquity of a woman's experience - and no matter who you are: a rockstar, film director, mom - we all are celebrating...”

“There are three fundamental poses of the human figure. One is standing. The other is seated, and the third is lying down... Of the three poses, the reclining figure gives the most freedom, c...”

“I can't concentrate on golf or bowling. Those bowling pins aren't going to hurt me. I can concentrate in the ring because someone is trying to kill me.”

“Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.”

“I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.”

“You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness.”

“Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in...”

“I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a lo...”

“Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health. These mushrooms enjoy a terrific rep...”

“Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances...”

“Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.”

“America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together...”

“By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above pol...”

“Ideas are things that happen at any time because you're constantly thinking and evaluating life as if it were an eternally unsolvable math problem, which it is.”

“It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Whe...”

“I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is...”

“The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team tele...”

“I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of...”