Every accepted public quote

“But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not caus...”

“Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.”

“I don't think that the ECB should compensate for the lack of reforms in some countries... But it is clear that monetary policy can help countries and continents to rebound faster.”

“It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex.”

“The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd reall...”

“If I win gold, I will dedicate it to Nelson Mandela. He is a hero in South Africa, and everything I do, I do for him.”

“Move in the direction of your goals and your dreams and do something... anything! Action neutralizes negative emotion.”

“There is a movie called 'My Dog Skip,' starring my 'Outsiders' costar Diane Lane. I do not recommend it. If you have a child, particularly one about to leave home, watching this film is to b...”

“When we die, our souls still live. If you are a gangster or a bastard or a crook, your soul inhabits a donkey or something terrible.”

“June is gone. For the first time, the enormity of that hits me. Every muscle aches, my heart most of all. I am throbbing with how much I miss her. It hurts worse than anything. I don't know...”

“Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.”

“Books whose topics I thoroughy depsise are accapteble because they often force the reader to think and to examine his own beliefs. In an age where most people are either blindly obedient or...”

“Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as e...”

“We've had a difficult legacy of 40 years, and cleaning up is not going to be a one day job. But we are engaged in a systematic effort, we have not allowed formation of new militia groups, an...”

“If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.”

“The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.”

“Telling your story is transformative. For both the storyteller and their audience, a new bridge to understanding is created.”

“You could take me anywhere. You could take me to the moon, and believe me, everybody's going to try to take a trip to the moon to watch me fight.”

“He was an amazing - John McTiernan really was an incredible director, probably the best I've worked with because he constantly busted me when he wasn't getting what he wanted.”

“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”

“You just have to make sure you're writing about something that's true. It has to be honest and it has to have a real emotion behind it, regardless of where it's coming from.”

“Only in death will I relinquish my belts.”

“It can be easy to get swept up into catastrophizing the situation once your thoughts become negative. When you begin predicting doom and gloom, remind yourself that there are many other pote...”

“Intel is not the right person to be making clothing or even wristbands. We want to provide the fashion industry with the technical solutions.”

“Music was a central part of my childhood because my mother played organ and piano in the church, and that meant all us kids had to be in the church choir.”

“I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away fro...”

“Watson augments human decision-making because it isn't governed by human boundaries. It draws together all this information and forms hypotheses, millions of them, and then tests them with a...”

“The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.”

“Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for...”

“Building prosthetics that allow people to get back to the fun activities in life is as rewarding a job as I can imagine. It's just as fulfilling for me as winning at the racetrack.”

“Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.”

“So much of our mythology around money centers on the illusion that if we had 'more,' we would be more comfortable and more able to access our creativity. But creativity and prosperity are sp...”

“Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.”

“With respect to Iraq, I did favour the continuity of American forces to work with the new Maliki government. They had enormous needs for intelligence, for training on everything from airplan...”

“The big guys, the big dogs, are going to own everything from the White House to the courthouse.”

“In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems.”

“I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I'm quite good.”

“As many times as I've seen 'The Merchant of Venice,' I always take Shylock's side. For all the hatred that guy is shown, he has a reason to hate in return. He's treated cruelly. And it's tra...”

“In 1984, I returned to Newnham College at Cambridge University to teach after completing my Ph.D. there a couple of years earlier. Almost all of my colleagues in the university's classics de...”

“We gotta be proud to be Latino. It's almost like we cheating because we're American and we live by American customs, but at the same time, we got that Latino culture. We cheating; we double...”

“If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to p...”

“YOU MAY HAVE LOTS OF FRIENDS NOW, BUT ONLY IN TOUGH TIMES, WILL YOU KNOW WHO THE REAL ONES ARE.”

“To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.”

“The Federal Reserve system obviously doesn't work anymore - they keep lowering the federal discount rate, and all that happens is that the banks are making a fortune, and the old folks' CDs...”

“I have always loved the college atmosphere - sometimes too much, which is why I spent so long at LSU.”

“We need to defend principles like democracy, freedom of speech, gender equality, and the rule of law through exemplifying these on a global scale, not through the same cynical, isolationist...”

“White America is in the minority.”

“We need policymakers to keep an eye on gender and write policies that are explicitly designed to include underserved populations like girls in computer science courses.”