Every accepted public quote

“She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.”

“In L.A. there's diet trends, there's the new nip and tuck people are doing, the new person who is in town you never saw before.”

“Being pregnant is a conundrum. You have this freedom, because it's a wonderful time that a human being is growing inside of you, and it is truly magical. On the other hand, your body changes...”

“Together, Apple and Walmart represent the intense separation of American life into blue and red, rich and poor, overpriced and undersold, hyperconnected and left behind.”

“This world is out of date”

“If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifi...”

“Sun benches at the curb bespeak another season, truncated poplars that having served for shade served also later for the fire.”

“President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader.”

“We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.”

“People like rumors. They're going to say things like, 'You was at the club with Lil' Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.' You can't get upset. You've got to keep hope alive.”

“The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.”

“The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.”

“Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood.”

“It is an honour to be spreading Moroccan music and dance in India while integrating some of my favourite things about India, including the beautiful, talented, carefree children, who just li...”

“But I think it shortsells any idea when you say there's a similar part to something else, like 'aw man, 'The Avengers' is ripping off 'Batman.' You've got people running around in outfits.'...”

“'The Falling' was a big, flashy, bizarre experience. I kept on saying at the time it was a fluke because I did the audition, and I didn't think anything would come of it.”

“Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.”

“I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.”

“What music is to the heart, mathematics is to the mind.”

“Paul Simon is the king!”

“I work in the tech industry and my husband works in biotech. He's head of IP for a company listed on the NASDAQ. And we have a lot of discussions in tech and biotech about the role of unioni...”

“I loved being a test pilot, and so being an astronaut was - was not my end point in, you know, either I achieved success by being an astronaut, or if I don't get picked, I'm not successful....”

“America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.”

“Local law enforcement agencies, national police authorities, and other state-operated surveillance has created a hostile environment for communities at the margins.”

“There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a...”

“It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separat...”

“A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating.”

“There is no doubt in my mind that Article II limits to a considerable degree the application of the obstruction statutes to the president when he is acting in his capacity as chief law-enfor...”

“It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.”

“I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine the...”

“'Creeping Death' - that was a special song for me as a kid, because that was the one that every single Jewish kid thought, 'Oh, Metallica wrote a song for us. He wrote it about the exodus of...”

“Sodium is an important mineral that is essential for proper functioning of the human body - however, the American diet contains dangerously high amounts of sodium, almost 80 percent of which...”

“However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.”

“With 'Duplicity', I was a little bit like, 'This isn't that hard of a movie.' This isn't like some huge brain trust of a movie. You gotta be a little bit awake to follow the plot, but it's r...”

“The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used.”

“I wanted to start doing more music, doing more things than just playing guitar. I started taking singing lessons and piano lessons. I need to learn more things, to be an artist or whatever,...”

“It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving.”

“Fashion is a very ongoing, renewing thing, about change and reaching for the next thing. You are permanently dissatisfied, and it's always got to get better.”

“For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why...”

“Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes.”

“Inkaba' is about a feud between two South African families. They have been fighting for years, from one generation to the next. It's like those typical feuds you have in rural KwaZulu-Natal...”

“When you play the Grand Slam, you have just to give everything you have.”

“I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.”

“Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.”

“It was just a normal family. We were playing basketball, we were playing soccer. It was home-cooked meals, just peaceful and happy times.”

“I think I've achieved some good things; doing the first genome in history - my team on that was phenomenal and all the things they pulled together; writing the first genome with a synthetic...”

“The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.”

“I had never considered using a hashtag anywhere other than on Twitter, but now I'm inspired. Text messages have always seemed a little flat to me, so the murmuring Greek chorus of a hashtag...”