Every accepted public quote

“First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.”

“As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything.”

“Recovery measures work better when they raise confidence - as Franklin D. Roosevelt understood. His fireside chats, and his inaugural address proclaiming he would fight the Great Depression...”

“There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide horm...”

“Books were my broomstick. They allowed me to fly to other realms where anything was possible.”

“I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be' this person, you know? So then its like, if I'm really this person, how can I be in the moment if I know...”

“I've taken a tenacious bulldog approach to learning new skills throughout my life.”

“I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a kind of an electrifying effect on this country; this was a time when there were a lot of good books...”

“It troubled me that we had these reports of torture of detainees, we had people jailed at Guantanamo Bay who couldn't even talk to their lawyers and couldn't see the evidence against them -...”

“Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more t...”

“Early in my career, I didn't want to disappoint my colleagues, clients, or family. So I said yes to everything. This ended up raising my stress level and shortchanging everyone else - includ...”

“One of the nicest things I ever read about our show was that a critic felt 'Boardwalk Empire' could be the beginning of the blur between television and cinema, because the production values...”

“Contrary to far too popular a belief, style, fashion, and fabulousness are not synonymous with stank, haughty, and self-aggrandizing.”

“It was at the beginning of 1934 while working on the emission of these positive electrons that we noticed a fundamental difference between that transmutation and all the others so far produc...”

“We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate...”

“The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are ho...”

“Without risk, faith is an impossibility.”

“I actually grew up being part of the kids' choirs, so I knew 'Joseph' basically my entire life. We've brought in this new multimedia aspect that really makes the show jump off the stage and...”

“Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral...”

“I started re-reading 'Harry Potter' just to throw myself back into my childhood. I forgot how awesome the books are.”

“The great thing I like about the sci-fi genre is there's a lot of different latitude for a lot of different kinds of behavior. You can be a very larger-than-life villain, or a very naturalis...”

“My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to engage in my society politically, having the kid around sort of makes me check in...”

“We are not in Afghanistan because girls were not allowed to go to school, but helping them do so will give the Afghan people hope for a better future.”

“The Jews' fear of assimilation and intermarriage should not replace fear of anti-Semitism.”

“If you have one true friend you have more than your share.”

“People are pursuing happiness, but they're pursuing things that will never, ever make them happy, and they don't know that. They've got a distorted view of what will make them happy, what ha...”

“Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.”

“I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fo...”

“I love 'Downton Abbey.'”

“To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.”

“I think Messi is the best player in the world.”

“The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are gettin...”

“If the present is a duration less point, then there would, in fact, be no present. Now, say the present has duration. If it has duration then, can't it be divided into a number of co-present...”

“A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed in keeping rabbits.”

“My dad always had me sing alongside him while he played guitar. He taught me how to harmonize to an old song of his, 'Missing You.'”

“Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousn...”

“Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the fact that a movie is a different thing, and it can'...”

“This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.”

“I could see in her a piece of the bright hope I once had in myself and it made me sour and angry. It made me feel sorry for her too. I wanted to take both her hands in mine, look her in the...”

“I just love watching 'Andaz Apna Apna.' Every single time, I end up laughing so much that my jaws start hurting.”

“Strive for perfection, knowing it will never be achieved.”

“The United States faces structural employment problems because of the long-term effects of globalization and technology. This was only exacerbated by the Great Recession.”

“My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework.”

“My friends have named me the person they least want to do extreme adventures with, because I always seem to be very close to being part of a disaster. If a cat has nine lives, I think I've u...”

“No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.”

“You are the one girl that made me risk eveything for a future worth having.”

“The United States and the Obama administration have consistently opposed the delegitimation of Israel. We've also consistently pushed for legitimation of Israel across the U.N. system. We un...”

“The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people.”