Every accepted public quote

“I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.”

“Helping reproductive services doesn't just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much.”

“The destiny of the Latino community is interwoven with the destiny of the United States.”

“You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that le...”

“The East-West Center directly supports the U.S. rebalance to the Asia Pacific through cooperative study, research, and dialogue with countries in the region.”

“I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived.”

“Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.”

“To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.”

“I get really negative comments all the time, but the comments that really bother me are the ones that question my character.”

“If I sleep in and don't run, I'll feel a little bit off because I didn't do what I was supposed to do. But I'm not going to beat myself up because of it. I'll just get right back on track.”

“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life.”

“The most remote place I've been to was in Greenland. I remember setting out for a solo hike from a small cabin, itself several hours' boat ride from the nearest settlement.”

“Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.”

“Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't t...”

“I just want people to feel what I feel when I hear music that I love.”

“Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.”

“Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.”

“A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.”

“Our strategy should be based on indigenisation and import substitution. The government must provide opportunities for domestic companies to participate in sectors in which the country contin...”

“Life is too short to spend your time pining for someone who isn't here.”

“If anything, I don't have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, a...”

“Quite simply, my diet has and will always be everything in moderation. People look at Olympic athletes and think they must cut out all those things everyone else indulges in, and speaking fo...”

“I liked working with Tom Christopher as he was great as Hawk, and Wilfred Hyde White but I wished it were in a different context as the changes really tuned off the audience.”

“When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable c...”

“I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.”

“When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.”

“Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.”

“Our nation is today a powerful nation.”

“It's almost impossible to get a movie all together when there are two main cast members, let alone an ensemble cast with everyone's schedules. It's crazy if it works out.”

“Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.”

“The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.”

“In terms of men being feminist allies, it's just important to speak from your own place. I'd love to hear men singing about masculinity and the damage it does to them.”

“My first memory of the Harry Potter series was my little brother just falling into those books and not resurfacing until he was done. That J.K. Rowling got an entire generation reading is ex...”

“You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement.”

“I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.”

“My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress,...”

“I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and...”

“You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.”

“The most surreal moment might have been meeting President Obama. It was really cool, actually; they, like, announced us into the room. There was a man in a uniform who announced all our name...”

“To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.”

“Many countries do not allow women to convey their nationality to their children - if they are single mothers, the children become stateless.”

“I knew my mother was - well, her ancestry dated back to John Quincy Adams, so she was totally not Latina. She was definitely whatever you call it - white bread, shall we say?”

“What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they mis...”

“Life is the game that must be played: This truth at least, good friends, we know; So live and laugh, nor be dismayed As one by one the phantoms go.”

“We condemn all shades and hues of terrorism and militancy and want to cooperate with India to fight this menace.”

“It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.”

“There's a lot of politics in television and a lot of in-fighting and all that sort of stuff, but in the end, we are purveyors of entertainment. Viewers are not really bogged down in who's do...”

“A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where...”