Every accepted public quote

“Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.”

“Even victors are by victories undone.”

“I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.”

“I don't get to do quiet time.”

“Yesterday is gone with its aches, today is a holiday, and tomorrow is the beginning of a new adventure.”

“A lot of people say I've missed out on a lot because I started acting at such a young age. What's so obvious to me is that I actually was really lucky. I gained a lot and I got a head start...”

“How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.”

“It's always great to engage with people. You never know who you can make an effect on. And I love interacting with the fans, hearing what they have to say and joking around with them. Anytim...”

“In training, I work hard to make the starting line-up, and I try to do my best to be picked.”

“He is the cheese to my macaroni.”

“When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.”

“I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.”

“We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.”

“Throughout history, women have often been treated as second-class citizens and their voices silenced.”

“It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It...”

“I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was ev...”

“When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: 'Why did success pass me by?'”

“When I first started, I didn't know what I was doing. I was such a - like a kid that got into things before I was ready. I was like the original learning-on-the-job-experience guy. All I kne...”

“Goals are ever-changing. I didn't set out to be in a 'Star Wars' film but now I've been in one.”

“When I was 12 there was a big shift in mindset and I realised that if I want to get something out of it then I need to work hard and focus all my energy just for this sport and that's when I...”

“Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe the...”

“If I could wrestle somebody at a WrestleMania, I would have really loved to wrestle with John Cena. It would have been nice to have a great WrestleMania match with The Rock and Edge, but my...”

“I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.”

“My perfume, Manifesto, was based on the scent of basil.”

“Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.”

“One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.”

“They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.”

“Not only are we like the epitome of the American dream, we've been successful at the sport for so long that we know the Lopez name will always be part of the taekwondo world.”

“They say that a kingdom is like a pyramid: the king on top and the people below. But in this country, it's upside down.”

“Loyalty is the quantizing basis of all emotions. Faithfulness is the cornerstone to love, hate, anger, patriotism, friendship, compassion, and self-respect. Love is the agent of universal sy...”

“Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”

“Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.”

“Human beings only can grow by changing awareness and consciousness about their surroundings and about the universe as a whole.”

“Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.”

“Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.”

“Women have to work harder to be in the same position as a fella because they often have to balance work with running a family.”

“I believe that every character is a setting, a world with moving parts, and on the other hand, every setting is, in fact, a character - a living breathing thing with personality and backstor...”

“First love is ravaging - it just guts you in the most wonderful way, if you can see through it.”

“In chaos is where learning happens the most.”

“I love breakfast. I could eat breakfast for every meal of the day. I can't go without eggs.”

“As we begin this debate, I am confident that we will hear the supporters of this bill argue in the name of Ronald Reagan that this research is consistent with his long-held views about the s...”

“I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.”

“What Qatar chose is a system where a worker is owned by his employer. When your employer forces you to live in squalor, makes you work longest hours in extreme heat, doesn't allow you to cha...”

“You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.”

“Love begins in mindfulness. Love is expressed in relationship to another but the source is not the relationship. The source of love is within us.”

“Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.”

“I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.”

“As a young artist, especially in rap and at that time that I came out, originality was big.”