Every accepted public quote

“I think it is likely that success will only affect people who will perceive despite the difficulty and mistakes.”

“People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was easy, everyone would do it! Most people don't want to put...”

“dear today, i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.”

“Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.”

“In 2013, after a challenging two years of long-term IV antibiotics and six weeks at a clinic in florida, I received the 'Star Light' award from the Lyme Research Alliance for my advocacy and...”

“You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.”

“I'd been so heavily influenced by Em, but artists that don't grow out of that don't go anywhere. Ultimately, I came to understand that what Eminem stood for above all else was 'be yourself.'”

“You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.”

“The general consensus is that we gain wisdom and learn from our failures and mistakes; however, many do not accept the rationale of their errors and thus continually repeat them; therefore,...”

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!”

“The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.”

“It's better to be with someone who has the same sleep patterns.”

“I find the whole concept of being 'sexy' embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot, people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. T...”

“Some members of the Vienna Philharmonic convinced me to try Bruckner, which I have never done before. And that was interesting to me to have this experience with this orchestra, which knows...”

“I went to school in drag, in art school and my day was completely different because everybody thought I was a chick. You should see me as a chick. So I went as a girl, as like an experiment...”

“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything...”

“I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.”

“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”

“For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to walk, you're some place that's already interesting. You're not just between pl...”

“You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.”

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”

“I think we have other things to worry about than some Zika virus.”

“Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”

“The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.”

“For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is be...”

“Books fall open, you fall in”

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

“There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.”

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”

“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”

“A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.”

“People are so terrified of other people. I see it in my generation a lot. There's so much anxiety and angst, and the pressure just keeps getting worse.”

“When in doubt, seek wisdom.”

“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”

“It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with...”

“The ubiquitous eyes of God may identify one as a supply-route and strategically maneuver his placing. He never leaves wanting any through whom he chooses to bless others.”

“I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”

“There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is...”

“Crap. It's all crap. Living is crap. Life has no meaning. None. Nowhere to be found. Crap. Why doesn't anybody realize this?”

“When I write, I can shake off all my cares.”

“I always get compared to looking like a silent movie star - though I don't know if that's a compliment, honestly.”

“Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to...”

“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.”

“I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.”

“I have been to the States many times. What I enjoy most is the feeling of being undercover, that no one recognizes me. When I go to the airport almost anywhere in Europe or Africa, I am reco...”

“The digital economy is impacting us in a big way.”

“Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accompli...”