Every accepted public quote

“In many... cases, of course, the Arab Spring has brought about instability rather than greater stability. And rather than bringing about government that is more representative and more respo...”

“After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.”

“Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, no...”

“When I got my success, I became decadent for a while. This was 2003 to 2008. I fell for tiramisu really hard. I've become more moderate since, because African-Americans are prone to diabetes...”

“If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.”

“Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.”

“We need intelligence services to fight against terrorism, but they have to respect the principles of good relationships between allies and protect personal, confidential data.”

“There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.”

“The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hard...”

“It seems the feminists are all about female freedom of expression so long as the female is overweight or transgender. You can't pick and choose what type of women fit your agenda.”

“...I don't believe in Him, and if He does exist, I don't like Him. His type of gods aren't gods who echo how mortals behave. They're gods who are held up as example of perfection to be emula...”

“I wanna have more majors than Jack Nicklaus.”

“Ok, fair enough, people have the right to know! But is their right to know more important than my right to safety? Why should I reveal something about myself that will put me in danger? Why...”

“Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.”

“If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.”

“My fear in converting it to 3-D is that people will say, 'Oh, it's the 3-D 'Clash of the Titans.' No, it's 'Clash of the Titans,' the movie, and then, on top of that, you have the 3-D conver...”

“In 1981, Ms. Ebtekar was made editor-in-chief of the English-language newspaper 'Kayhan International.' The man who gave her the job was Mr. Khatami, who was then head of the Kayhan publishi...”

“I never understood how men could remember all those details about sports but, yet, were incapable of remembering where they set their car keys or wallet.”

“If somebody doesn't want to cook at home or has more family members than they have room for, then it's great to be in a city that's got restaurants that are actually busy on the holidays.”

“Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.”

“A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It's the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athle...”

“When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'”

“As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would brin...”

“In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I'd be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.”

“A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.”

“The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.”

“This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would vote for me, based on my own anecdotal feedback. Not vote for me...”

“Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song.”

“Before I won Miss Diva in 2015, I had won the pageant once before in 2012. Back then, it was called Miss Universe India.”

“Because I don't really think of myself as a hunk, to be honest.”

“When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing.”

“Equal pay for equal work isn't, 'Here, I'll give this to you.' It's confidence, it's participation.”

“I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea.”

“It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.”

“The holy grail of recipe developing is the recipe that turns out so much more impressive than you would expect from the effort it took to produce.”

“I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in a car in L.A. I'm 35 years old. If you add up the hours spent in cars, it would be years.”

“I do admire great essayists. I'm a particular fan of good nature writing. People like Robert Finch. I read great quantities of writing by naturalists. I've been studying the genre for years.”

“When I was a little girl in Savannah playing, there were never enough hours in the day or holes on the golf course. I just loved the game so much.”

“Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?”

“Simply, if you're working with good material, then it's right there, and you don't have to try so hard as an actor; you don't have to do so much. Just let the material sit inside you and let...”

“To be, or not to be, that is the question.”

“There will always be a theatrical experience because there will always be cinemas no matter what. It's like there will always be theaters to have stage plays in.”

“...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.”

“The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.”

“I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.”

“Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics...”

“The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just incredible.”

“I'm no genius, but I'm real smart in one area - I picked the right mate.”