Every accepted public quote

“An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: 'They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell each other stories!' We humans forget how alike we are, l...”

“But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very,...”

“Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere betwe...”

“I've been wearing lipstick since I was in 7th grade. That was our form of daring self-expression, because we had to wear uniforms in school. It made our teachers so angry.”

“I came here as an immigrant. We were poor. We went to flea markets to sell gifts to make ends meet. Just the mere fact that I can be running for Congress is something that can only happen in...”

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”

“I went to community college for graphic design, and I loved it, but I wasn't into the school thing, so that didn't work out.”

“That happened to me, but I'm so much more than that girl that was kidnapped.”

“I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.”

“'Sabotage' was an opportunity. That was journeyman work, but the irony is I learned more off that movie on what filmmaking is and isn't than everything else combined. A lot of lessons, and i...”

“Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight. The talent on YouTube is incredible, a...”

“We all have the ability to see our life as it is but also imagine a different one.”

“There are more humans than all of the rabbits on earth. There are more of us than all the wildebeests, than all the rats, than all the mice. We are the most numerous mammal on the planet. Bu...”

“The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man a...”

“Women are focused on getting things done and bring fresh perspectives and innovative approaches to a political system that's crying out for change.”

“HOBBES: If you don't get a goodnight kiss you get Kafka dreams.”

“From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and editor, I reported in a publication about the thinkers. Our offices...”

“I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.”

“If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.”

“There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you f...”

“One of the strengths of the belief in Antinous was its appeal to the most sensitive and inward of mystical natures as well as to the exuberant, joyous and ecstatic sides of human experience.”

“People think getting a new partner is like getting a new car.”

“Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.”

“Like everyone else, I have my quirks. For one, I have to own only black cars and the registration has to have eights. It's not something I can explain, it's just there. Another obsession I h...”

“Stop talking about it and just WRITE!”

“Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.”

“To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.”

“A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.”

“Do not concentrate on your sufferings. Concentrate on your hope. Hope means life.”

“Gem, there is an exception to every rule and we are going to be it. I'm not losing you.”

“Maybe I wanted to have kids because you want to leave behind lessons, leave behind everything that matters to you. That's how you touch the world. But I have to reconsider what it's like to...”

“I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.”

“I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.”

“It is well past time for President Abbas to stand up and condemn all acts of violence, rather than encouraging violence by glorifying terrorists and teaching children to view Israelis as ani...”

“Most of all, I'll remind them each morning that we make a choice to bring positivity or negativity into the world, and that within every single person where lies an extraordinary story waiti...”

“She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.”

“It is the world's limitations and the myths that we internalize about ourselves that pushes us to diminish our power and ignore it.”

“They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!'”

“I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.”

“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”

“The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the oppor...”

“Some, like Mother Teresa, are born with a gene to help the poor, and some are born with a gene to write. I was born with a gene to tell my story, and I just had to.”

“People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, th...”

“Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?”

“Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.”

“What we need to focus on is not that we're not nominated, but that we have many more Latinos that are in prominent positions on shows all across the dial than ever before.”

“I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play th...”

“'They Walk Among Us' is the work of husband-and-wife team Benjamin and Rosie. In the past, they've covered the Shannon Matthews case and the career of the prisoner known as Charles Bronson.”