Every accepted public quote

“O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!”

“I remember watching Margaret Cho with my grandmother on TV. She was my hero, not only because she was funny, but because she showed me that it's okay to be yourself, that it's okay to be a b...”

“My favorite game is Madden. That's it. I'm a Madden addict. I go at it.”

“Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different journalists shuttle in for three minutes at a time, asking cheesy movie questions to get a...”

“On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country's war effort by effecting at as early a date as may b...”

“The pace is different on a film set. It's slightly slower, allowing for a little more wiggle room. Sometimes there is a bit more room to explore and work on the floor. On a TV set, you reall...”

“Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something wi...”

“By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made.”

“To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.”

“I have a transgender nephew on my father's side of the family. So I'm extremely aware of how important it is to support and advocate for young people who are experiencing that in their lives...”

“If the Olympics come around, and I'm in shape, then I'll compete. But I won't be representing the United States; I'll be representing myself.”

“To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.”

“To prepare for the mountains develop mind, body, will and spirit as strong as a sword, soft as a pillow and fluid as water.”

“I like David Beckham just because of his lifestyle. He don't ever need to score another goal again. How many times has he been on the cover of GQ?”

“People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And the...”

“Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.”

“We didn't have money all the time to do laundry. A lot of the time, we didn't have soap or hot water. We were smart kids academically, but we'd go to school smelling.”

“The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.”

“Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and se...”

“The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.”

“One suffers a great deal when one has a dream but no courage to follow it than the one who does follow the dream despite the circumstances.”

“At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything - some woul...”

“In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for...”

“The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.”

“Fabo is a real rock star, but people look over it, so I'll try to bring it to the light if I can.”

“I have seen women literally run into the abortion facility because someone was yelling Bible verses at them or pushing a graphic image in their faces.”

“Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.”

“How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.”

“Trump says very scary things - deporting immigrants, massive militarism and, you know, ignoring the climate. Well, Hillary, unfortunately, has a track record for doing all of those things.”

“I no longer cared about survival - I merely loved.”

“As we have said before, for religious man nature is never only natural. Experience of a radically desacralized nature is a recent discovery; moreover, it is an experience accessible only to...”

“When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.”

“I'm a completely fearless musician.”

“A moment of hope makes grief even more difficult to bear.”

“I've worked in front of crowds of two hundred that sounded like a thousand, and I've worked in front of crowds of five thousand that sounded like two hundred. It really varies with the energ...”

“Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.”

“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”

“I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what...”

“I've been a free man.”

“I'm not a good cook, unfortunately. I've tried a few times, but I don't like it too much.”

“I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?”

“White lies keep social dignity intact and are far more prevalent than most people realize. Several studies have found that an average person is lied to from 10 to 200 times a day - mostly ju...”

“Al Gore had no problem taking hundreds of millions of dollars from the government of Qatar to sell his Current TV to Al Jazeera America.”

“And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White...”

“That's my biggest struggle, is maintaining a personal romantic relationship. It takes a lot of effort.”

“I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?”

“Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have...”

“When they set off for their first day at their new school, I will never forget that winter morning as I watched our girls, just 7 and 10 years old, pile into those black SUVs with all those...”