Every accepted public quote

“We all, white and black, carry various biases around with us.”

“With swimming, I burn a lot of calories. I'm able to eat pretty much anything and it won't affect me. But I don't.”

“The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.”

“Who you were yesterday is not who you are today nor who you will be tomorrow.”

“If you start adapting to audiences, you're really second-guessing the situation, and it becomes a bit more like cabaret.”

“The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.”

“Afghanistan was always a backwater in the Islamic world.”

“I would like to enlighten people.”

“Wildly successful sites such as Flickr, Twitter and Facebook offer genuinely portable social experiences, on and off the desktop. You don't even have to go to Facebook or Twitter to experien...”

“The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.”

“While immensely beneficial to Seoul, is this U.S. guarantee to fight Korean War II, 64 years after the first, wise? Russia, China and Japan retain the freedom to decide whether and how to re...”

“Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.”

“I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of every women's health newsletter from every hospital in the...”

“That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individua...”

“I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.”

“You have to know your past, to understand your present and conceive your future.”

“If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly.”

“If China were to explode, I'd want to be there in a flash. If there's a big story, I want to be there.”

“Usually during the regular season, if you're starting pitcher, you're kind of walking back and forth from the clubhouse to the dugout and not really paying attention to what's going on.”

“A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.”

“You can create something strong in art with a few notes. It is like how Aboriginal drawings have a simplicity that is incredibly rich.”

“We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the actual motivations of animals.”

“Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazine is, in fact, about the opposite of travel. It's about having a nice time on a honeymoon, or...”

“My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than key...”

“Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.”

“Probably every person is some mixture of wanting to feel a sense of commonality and shared experience with others but also wanting to feel completely singular and unique.”

“The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and swing, which means even though they're making up music, they...”

“My son, Jett, is two, and when I was pregnant my nose got bigger, so I got a new one. Everything was bigger for a while after having Jet, but I knew I needed to be able to walk up my stairs...”

“Back then I could not understand one word of what I read. Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot understand what you are reading you can get something from books.”

“Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot...”

“As digital equipment replaces the jobs of routine workers and lower-level professionals, technicians are needed to install, monitor, repair, test, and upgrade all the equipment.”

“The ability to scale up is hard. So the best model for us is concentrated India, diversified financial services, and through this, we can get significant scale on an Indian platform.”

“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”

“Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”

“And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.”

“Boast of Quietness Writings of light assault the darkness, more prodigious than meteors. The tall unknowable city takes over the countryside. Sure of my life and death, I observe the ambitio...”

“Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.”

“Anthropology seems so bland and friendly now, but in the early 20th century, Jews could only be dissected badly by these fields. The Jews were extremely assimilated; it's a different world t...”

“Love is vulnerable. Love is family. Love is Life. We hurt one another. We just do. But we also need one another. We all know hurt people hurt people. Wounded people lash out in anger and in...”

“Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.”

“Basically, I started on stage yelling and I kept yelling, and then I yelled some more, and then I yelled even louder. I'm modulated now.”

“space.”

“After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the s...”

“Lion's mane may be our first 'smart' mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population.”

“When you write, you are telling a story...to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself...over and over again.”

“The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That's behind me now.”

“When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks... hardcore... like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.”

“The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.”