Every accepted public quote

“On the market, all is harmony. But as soon as intervention appears and is established, conflict is created, for each may participate in a scramble to be a net gainer rather than a net loser...”

“One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.”

“When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.”

“I think it's important as a women to know who you are and what you deserve. We, ourselves set the boundaries of what we choose to accept. Instead of complaining about the men who's actions d...”

“If everyone got a divorce and looked for a second wife, the Coptic family would lose its moral compass.”

“God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”

“All too often, lotteries only add to the problem of the financially disadvantaged by taking money from them and giving nothing of value in return.”

“If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”

“I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner.”

“Daring to wear something different takes effort.”

“You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.”

“I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That w...”

“I don't like sweet, warm beverages. It makes me gag!”

“Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.”

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”

“If ever there was a show that could be termed a mascot for people who ride Harleys, it's 'Renegade,' and I'm real proud of that.”

“The wisdom of Buddha is not written in stone, but in truth.”

“I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminate...”

“I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, and a friend of mine who played trombone and a guy who played tuba, every Christmas we'd g...”

“Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.”

“And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.”

“My first ambition in life, I made up my mind I was going to become Miles Davis. I studied music, music theory. I played trumpet for nine years. One day, my mother explained, 'You can't be Mi...”

“Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like...”

“I was not going to attack Palin just for being a woman appealing for support from other women.”

“The scientific method is nothing more than a system of rules to keep us from lying to each other.”

“Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture...”

“A young comic, if he's any good, can easily get on 'Carson' or 'Griffin' or 'Dinah Shore,' because they want to say the same thing, that they discovered the new talent.”

“I shook Obama's hand and I said, 'I want to be your friend.' My hand is still outstretched. I am not Obama's enemy, but it's difficult not see imperialism in Washington. Those who don't see...”

“That you have just caught success after chasing it for many years does not mean that death will stop chasing you for at least a few seconds.”

“I think it's really easy to approach a touchy subject head-on, but 'Sharp Objects' does it in a way that's subtle and it presents mental illness as something quite common and normalized. It'...”

“I listen to a lot of TED talks and motivational speakers.”

“'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion.”

“Some of us have held the hands of friends or brothers as they struggled with military and police academy recruiters, and though many of them never dreamed of being policemen, a lack of oppor...”

“Hip hop has the urgency and rebelliousness that early rock n' roll and punk had: a level of rule-breaking and flirtation with danger. It allows you to break the rules.”

“Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.”

“You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.”

“No one has the right to harass anyone. I fully support the #MeToo movement.”

“Our forefathers got it; they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our Constitution - the land of freedom where each man is accountable an...”

“The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.”

“Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.”

“Public figures talk and act as if environmental change will be linear and gradual. But the Earth's systems are highly complex, and complex systems do not respond to pressure in linear ways.”

“Sometimes we followed the crops, doing migrant labor. We did several years of tenant farming in Western Oregon starting in the early '50s. Later, my stepdad managed gas stations in a small t...”

“Steampunk appeals to the idea of uniqueness, to the one-off item, while every mainstream consumer technology of recent years is about putting human beings into ever more granular, packageabl...”

“Darwin didn't walk around the Galapagos and come up with the theory of evolution. He was exploring, collecting, making observations. It wasn't until he got back and went through the samples...”

“I hear that from so many different governments, people coming to me and saying, 'You should be careful'. But I don't want to go around with bodyguards.”

“Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you.”

“I collect swords, but I'm not really a swordsman.”

“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only...”