Every accepted public quote

“I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.”

“I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.”

“I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.”

“It's human nature that if you get 20 positive comments and one negative one, you're going to focus on the negative. We all do that. It can be something that drags you down. It's easy to get...”

“I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.”

“I like English football a lot.”

“I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.”

“If you can't imagine female torch singers and Skrillex-style demon techno onstage at the same moment, you don't know Eurovision.”

“I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my passion for the digital narrative into graduate school as well (also at...”

“I've always loved yoga because you get to connect to a deep religious truth while stretching your legs.”

“At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.”

“The grill is the summer equivalent of a fireplace; everyone gravitates to it.”

“Unlike the twisters he famously chased in the movies, Bill Paxton was the kind of force of nature you ran toward and never away from.”

“Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'”

“I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.”

“Those who are outraged will vote.”

“I'm toned, but I'm not cut. I like a little jiggle!”

“My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles'...”

“Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.”

“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”

“As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.”

“Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights.”

“The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the inflictio...”

“'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.”

“I really love 'Cold Song.' If anyone really listens to that song and thinks about their life, there's a lot of good material deep down in there. I think if you listen to the lyrics, it may t...”

“You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”

“While the four-day work week is not yet universal, most citizens enjoy the pleasures of added three-day weekends during the year. These extra days, as well as monthlong vacations, are used i...”

“We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family - Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A great gift was their total absence of any...”

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul.”

“But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be...”

“Now that I'm older, a real source of interest is the ages of the dead, the number; the day is off to an optimistic start when the departed are all older than I.”

“My favorite meal is I'll make like a three-bean soup and I freeze half of it. But I'm also a big fan of meat alternatives, so I can still have my chicken and mashed potatoes and green beans,...”

“Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.”

“I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought t...”

“I use a lot of natural products, I get facials, and I drink a lot of detox tea.”

“Everything happens every night for this audience, and it's a very special occasion to come to the theatre.”

“Growing up, there wasn't an exact Hispanic role model that I had. I didn't realize how big a difference I was making, going to the Olympics and being Hispanic, until I would be in an autogra...”

“When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the p...”

“Stained glass is unique from the outside, but as a painting insider, I know that oil painting's all about light. And it's about the depiction of light, the way that it bounces off different...”

“I like to maintain my collection as a provocative collection that makes people think. While certainly my stamp will be visible on Black Fleece, it is meant for a wider audience.”

“The party on Wall Street never ends - while the rest of us pick up their tab and suffer the hangover.”

“To find common ground you must be willing to search for it.”

“I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.”

“I always said the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone.”

“The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.”

“This principle - that your spouse should be capable of becoming your best friend - is a game changer when you address the question of compatibility in a prospective spouse. If you think of m...”

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.”

“The truth is, gymnastics is a beautiful sport that has allowed me to grow and learn invaluable life lessons: sacrifice, dedication, discipline. Eventually, it led me to my voice.”