Every accepted public quote

“Our servicemen and women are highly trained, highly skilled, and the most professional fighting force in the world.”

“How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable.”

“Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it.”

“We think it's a blessing that we were able to bring our music to the world. That our music has not only inspired our communities but other communities. That's one of the greatest things an a...”

“Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.”

“At DC Comics, it has been a top priority that DC forges a meaningful, forward-looking digital strategy.”

“In a traditional TV show or movie, your hero is always where the action is. But in real life, at the end of the movie 'Fargo,' when Bill Macy is arrested, Marge is nowhere to be found becaus...”

“The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness.”

“'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.”

“We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test.”

“It's not like I'm hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebrity golf tournaments. I'm so in my own little world. I got my dog, my music, my brother, a couple of friends.”

“I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out...”

“Is there something psychologically wrong with David Gregory? No, besides the usual superhuman vanity of a television professional. He is just not a great host of a news talk show!”

“I smoke wherever there's an ashtray.”

“People's attention spans don't run too long these days.”

“I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoile...”

“People are like, 'What is your whole obsession with butterflies?' I'm like, 'I'm not obsessed. I like them. Can't anybody like something?'”

“I love the wilder, more outlandish characters that are hard to make believable. Those are the ones I want to play.”

“We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. 'I am a thinking actor and I have thought this through' - well, just do it. I much prefer the doin...”

“Some nights I lie awake at night thinking, 'What's going to stop someone from smashing a chair through my window and coming in the house at two in the morning?' It is very unnerving. It's a...”

“My comedy notebooks are filled with random journal entries. It's all the same. I can look back on old joke notebooks, and know exactly what was going on in my life.”

“It's really actually been pretty shoddy and appalling, the amount of local content, Australian drama, on ABC TV.”

“People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.”

“The great thing about Showtime is that they really give us leeway and the range to explore the real dark side of stuff.”

“The greatest obsession is I believe in myself.”

“For women, we intend to do something in a noble and missionary spirit... We mean to appeal to their intellects... and we hereby announce ourselves as determined and bigoted feminists.”

“We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the horde...”

“Every Mother Counts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother. We inform, engage, and mobilize audiences to take action and raise funds t...”

“But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they...”

“No one is the same after I fought them - Hearns, Duran, Leonard. All of them.”

“We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that...”

“A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.”

“China, I didn't take it seriously; it was a lack of professionalism. They delayed to send us a written offer - It was a disaster.”

“Whether it's your family, friends, community that you connect with, don't be afraid to reach out. That's my biggest advice that I can say for anyone going through any kind of obstacle or tri...”

“When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.”

“I'm aware that I don't look like the traditional or the stereotypical type of Hollywood starlet and that is OK with me.”

“The world has no room for cowards.”

“There isn't a comedian in the world that hasn't bombed.”

“In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.”

“Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.”

“People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination, th...”

“Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren't enough to hold us steady when the challenges come... We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, somethin...”

“Streets paved with opal sadness, Lead me counterclockwise, to pockets of joy, And jazz.”

“You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.”

“In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.”

“I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film criticism of the stream-of-consciousness novelist Dorothy Richardson.”

“I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.”

“I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.”