Every accepted public quote

“I came out of independent film, that's my roots.”

“Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.”

“There's a thread that binds all of us together, pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line.”

“No one likes when debate gets stifled, when these events get cancelled, whether it's a former president or prime minister of Israel, whether it's a discussion on a panel.”

“I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had that creative side to me.”

“In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks on a history of American literature - I did that for se...”

“I build a robot version of Jenna Marbles' dog, Kermit. It turned out a little bit worse than I had anticipated.”

“It is not really hard to do nothing. Many can. The hard part is doing nothing without feeling guilty about it.”

“For me, in the audition, the song that you choose should make you cry. It doesn't matter why: it could be because you're happy, but it gives you that feeling that you're overflowing.”

“The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.”

“Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.”

“My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe.”

“I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on the show take their work very seriously...”

“I think there's a lot of people out there who, if George Foreman had to get beat, I'm the one fighter they would like to see beat him.”

“If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.”

“Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.”

“The currency of universal values make brands innately sharable.”

“The consequences of leaking sensitive information is that Americans and coalition forces die, and we lose trust with foreign spies, and our national security is put at risk.”

“Just because you're gay doesn't mean you're not homophobic.”

“I gleaned different style ideas over the years. In Southern California, there is a big rockabilly sub-culture. So when I would go to car shows, I would see women dressed like this. I had a t...”

“There's this misconception that I've been turning down roles. It's just not true. The reality is, there was nothing for me to do, nobody was calling, the phone wasn't ringing.”

“Los Angeles is such a great meritocracy. Where can someone with my background - don't have the right family background, the right religion, the right provenance or whatever you want to call...”

“I see my friends and family who have a passion or a dream, but it's now a dream deferred because they were never naive enough or brazen enough to say, 'Let me do this.'”

“I've been a Democrat, I've been a Republican, and I eventually became an independent because I don't believe either party has a monopoly on good ideas or strong leadership.”

“There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.”

“Take the breath of the new dawn and make it part of you. It will give you strength.”

“I think with anybody who's doing well in the public eye or whatever, there's always gonna be a shift because people don't wanna see somebody happy all the time. And they're gonna try to take...”

“It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech...”

“When I was a kid, and it was time to go to college, I thought, 'College is for people who don't have the street smarts to make it on their own - get in a band, get in a van, and get rockin'.”

“I'm not going to ask musicians to sit there and pretend to play. It feels insulting to the musicians to me.”

“The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.”

“Failure is when you give up. A real winner is someone that doesn't give up, even when it feels like they are losing.”

“My style is a little '70s and classic old Hollywood. I incorporate a lot of vintage, bohemian blouses paired with a good wedge.”

“Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is.”

“Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.”

“My children and grandchildren loved the secret servicemen and women that served us. I was honoured that they thought I was important enough to protect.”

“Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both...”

“I never really dyed my hair anything significant from my natural hair color.”

“What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.”

“I played baseball as a left-handed first baseman, though never as well as I did quarterbacking.”

“Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And...”

“I always try to put a seed of hope into people's hearts. I'm not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefu...”

“If you want a great job, you need something of great value to offer in return.”

“I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.”

“I like Meek Mill a lot. I listen to 'Dreams & Nightmares' introduction a lot. I always act crazy when the beat drops.”

“An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.”

“I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.”

“Most startups flame out or just muddle along. Your chances of spotting a unicorn, pre-horn, are incalculably small. But if, knowing that, you still want to toss aside your cushy job, at leas...”