Every accepted public quote

“The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.”

“I am endorsing Barack Obama because he is a new kind of leader: he speaks with a different voice; he brings a new perspective and inspires a real excitement from the American people.”

“People always ask me: Is it the music? Is it the masks? No, it's all of it. It's Slipknot. It's the optics, it's the masks, it's the music, it's the performance, it's the records.”

“I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.”

“I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.”

“Please don't shut me out. Or if you're going to, just tell me, tell me so that I'm not dangling in this in-between space.”

“Every year since culinary school I have made a Buche de Noel, or Yule Log.”

“In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attem...”

“Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex o...”

“Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.”

“There is credible evidence that a Chinese fleet went as far as the coast of Africa, in present-day Kenya. It was the largest maritime fleet in the world, under the command of Zheng He, a fav...”

“Learning to focus on the big picture will help you keep things in a proper perspective.”

“They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide?”

“For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.”

“You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.”

“Everyone I know feels harassed by email which has invaded their waking and sleeping hours.”

“My mum will not speak above a low whisper in public because she doesn't want to draw attention to herself.”

“Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you c...”

“Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.”

“The road Cordelia has travelled, the journey she has taken up to now has been such a joy to play as an actress, because there have been so many chances to do so many different emotions.”

“I just love the smell of an old book store and the feel of the crisp pages along my fingertips.”

“The mind does different things in performance, and conscious thought sometimes takes a backseat.”

“The information contained in an English sentence or computer software does not derive from the chemistry of the ink or the physics of magnetism, but from a source extrinsic to physics and ch...”

“I found out I was pregnant seven days after my wedding. I was on honeymoon with my family.”

“feeling upset? look up a lover”

“For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know t...”

“Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure machine and they'd rile me. I'd yell and scream, and then it woul...”

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”

“The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.”

“The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.”

“Seize time by the forelock.”

“Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?”

“I thought, 'When I get pregnant, someone will be looking for a pregnant woman. I'll do a movie about a pregnant woman.' But that didn't happen.”

“I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.”

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

“I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I've done press with e...”

“The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 mill...”

“We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.”

“Experience shows that exceptions are as true as rules.”

“I found that people want stories that are not too dissimilar from theirs. People want to be reminded that, let's say, struggle in your family is being felt by other people, that you're not a...”

“As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.”

“Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.”

“In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.”

“I write nothing but contemporary romances.”

“I've always been a rocker. Like ever since I was really young. I had a crush on the Green Day guys. That's always been what I was like and been my interest.”

“Touring is really a pretty lonely business.”

“I want to look my fellow Americans directly in the eye and declare to them, 'I am not the anthrax killer.' I know nothing about the anthrax attacks. I had absolutely nothing to do with this...”

“We are convinced that locking Russia out of Europe is not rational.”