Every accepted public quote

“The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it...”

“My biggest worry is that we have to keep making good music, and I want to do well, but I wonder if I will be able to.”

“Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.”

“Science is organized knowledge.”

“make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only - those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned. - Colton”

“The only time that I do not mind to look as stupid is when I am worshipping God and when I am expressing love to my wife through gifts.”

“I had actually tested first with 'Young and Restless' for the role of Daisy. It came down to three of us, but I didn't book that job. A couple of weeks later, I was told that I had an auditi...”

“Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.”

“Naughtiness is a part of growing up. It starts when you're a toddler and never ends.”

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

“I'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada, the guy who did the album art. I'd like to do some crazy art installations and...”

“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable...”

“Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.”

“I was at rock bottom for a year and a half - and the people who got me out of my rut were my fans.”

“You may agree or not with Gaddafi's political ideas, but no one has the right to question the existence of Libya as an independent state and member of the United Nations.”

“We want the digital world to bend to your physical life, your real emotional life as a person, and we don't want you to bend to computers.”

“When I'm working with improv people, I give them the green light to just bring it and try things.”

“The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, whi...”

“There aren't many sources of money in San Diego, apart from local partnerships and local investors. It's pretty starkly polarized to Silicon Valley.”

“People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you're fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it,...”

“This beautiful, messy, wonderful and volatile world of ours needs more heroes.”

“In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.”

“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.”

“Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being unlovely and unlovable never goes away; it is always there, lurking just beneath the surface...”

“There are many tough sides to being a jockey. Injury is something we all dread, but spending lengthy periods in the bath or the sauna just to shed a few pounds can be an exhausting and drain...”

“I've driven in L.A. probably three times. I'm a slug in L.A.”

“The last thing I want to do is complain; I love what I do, and I know every job comes with a downside. But boy, this one's a doozy...You pull out of your driveway, and the paparazzi literall...”

“While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.”

“It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.”

“Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.”

“As Vermont's senator and a member of the Budget Committee, I will not support a plan to reduce the deficit that does not call for shared sacrifice.”

“There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't wan...”

“You want to do what you love, but stuff overshadows it, so it makes it a little harder for people to take me seriously.”

“My family moved to Aspen, Colorado, where we had 'Avalanche Danger' days that kept us from going to school, climbed 14,000-foot peaks as part of my education, and I learned to snowboard.”

“I don't require a background check to contribute to my campaign. And so there are probably lots of people with unsavory backgrounds and pasts who have given to both Democrats and Republicans...”

“The Lord doesn't always take you in a straight line. He tests you sometimes.”

“If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealt...”

“The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.”

“The only thing that I know for sure is that the people who invest in the U.K., those investors, believe strongly that the ramifications of a hard Brexit are very bad, and they believe that a...”

“It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.”

“If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non...”

“As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.”

“'The Handmaid's Tale' is a horrifying and horrifyingly possible vision of the future.”

“The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.”

“I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done.”

“Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negat...”

“I believe Huckabee should have run again in 2012. Everyone was begging for him to do so. He beat Romney in 2008, and I believe he would have done it again in 2012.”

“Hard as it is to believe, there were three magazines fighting over me. 'Newsweek' wanted to keep me, 'ESPN The Magazine' was coming into existence and wanted me, and 'SI' wanted to bring me...”