Every accepted public quote

“His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!”

“I find the idea of walking down the aisle and then being handed to the groom by the father very romantic.”

“I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.”

“I have reservations about everything I do.”

“We know that when a woman speaks truth to power, there will be attempts to put her down... I'm not going to go anywhere.”

“People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them.”

“...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.”

“Federalism should be a meeting point of all groups.”

“I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now...”

“I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well.”

“One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is rig...”

“When will the world start believing that the biggest religion of all is humanity?”

“I'm really into lip cream. I have this one by Hourglass: it's an oil with this gold-tip applicator, and it's schmancy-schmancy. When you get to the point that your lips are cracking, the pri...”

“You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that wa...”

“Know your real Self, beyond who you think you are.”

“Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible.”

“We're so specialized now in our entertainment. It's nice to do a show where you're really circling back to this idea of, 'Couldn't there be a show the whole family can watch together?'”

“Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.”

“I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.”

“I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.”

“the Bogdanov theory excited debate among physicists as to whether it was twaddle, a work of genius, or a hoax. 'Scientifically, it's clearly more or less complete nonsense, Columbia Universi...”

“Everything I am I owe to Sterling Sharpe. He made me a better football player, a better father, and a better man. He was, and always will be, my hero.”

“The problem is that Americans use the state as a moral compass. For libertarians, it is often frustrating to explain that advocating the decriminalization of x is not synonymous with endorsi...”

“I'm a good putter. Like good shooters, just keep shooting. I'm just going to keep putting, and they're going to start going in.”

“I didn't know where I was going. My life was a hard and difficult desert. I was wandering aimlessly. I was drifting like a crazy man and wandering from place to place. I would wake up in the...”

“A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.”

“Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.”

“The classical ballet world is so exclusive and small, and a lot of people don't know about it.”

“You can just as easily drown in a pool of thought as you can in a swimming pool.”

“Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.”

“'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.”

“How long have you been a Wiccan?' 'A what?' 'A pagan. A witch.' 'I'm not a witch,' I said, glancing out the door. 'I'm a wizard.' Sanya frowned. 'What is the difference?' 'Wizard has a Z' He...”

“We wouldn't have to speak so critically if businesses would stop feeding dead animals to live ones, putting non-food substances into food, tinkering with genetic codes, and spraying the coun...”

“I feel like I'm way too young to wear such heavy makeup all the time. It's just bad for your skin, but I'm always doing photo shoots or red carpets and events, so I obviously want to look go...”

“We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.”

“What I was concerned about when I wrote the 'Downward Spiral' record was being a self-centred destructive force. The point was tearing down everything in a search for something else.”

“If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.”

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

“In a world with so much darkness, we must recognize and praise the good, no matter how small for each gem of goodness shines when held up to the light and gives up hope that our world is wor...”

“My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young...”

“The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.”

“I was a cute kid.”

“The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.”

“Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals.”

“Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.”

“To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.”

“I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.”

“Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.”