Every accepted public quote

“I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band.”

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the su...”

“If I have free time, I want to go to the beach, walk around a shopping mall, go grocery shopping. Live a little bit of life.”

“As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences - this life and beyond - we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember wh...”

“Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.”

“I've never stayed in a tent or a caravan in my life, and I never joined the Boy Scouts. I don't see the point of going on holiday to enjoy less comfort than I have at home.”

“It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even...”

“It is high time to declare an end to the breastfeeding dictatorship that is drowning women in guilt and worry just when they most need support: after the birth of a child.”

“Submitting to current pain that yields future pleasure is a wise investment.”

“A lot of people don't like bumper stickers. I don't mind bumper stickers. To me a bumper sticker is a shortcut. It's like a little sign that says 'Hey, let's never hang out.'”

“Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to civilization.”

“I studied the philosophy and the discipline of non-violence in Nashville as a student. And I staged a sitting-in in the fall of 1959 and got arrested the first time in February 1960.”

“With age comes a greater understanding and a greater worldview.”

“On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers - and there could be a lot of them - will be scared away from...”

“As CEO of Accenture, I am not French anymore. When I'm in India, I am Indian. We are a company with no physical headquarters. We operate on a virtual level. Our leadership meetings are telec...”

“People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.”

“At Manhattan GMAT, I had done my best to create a positive work environment and culture, and I further believed in rewarding people financially at or above the market rate for a job well don...”

“Time is not meant to be spent; it is meant to be experienced.”

“--You're rather well read for a working-class girl, she said with her back to me. --Really? I've found that all my well-read friends are from the working class. --Oh my. Why do you think tha...”

“The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.”

“Even if I wore a hat and a wig, you can always tell it's me.”

“To be clear, impeachment is above all else a political act.”

“I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.”

“Most religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism, subscribe to an interventionist view of God. ...all of these religions, at least in their orthodox expressions, are inco...”

“When I stop [working], the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working.”

“It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of kn...”

“To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences.”

“What I would hate to go through is what happened in the mid-90s playing in front of a half-empty theatre, which prompted me to say 'never again' when it came to Waterford. To go through that...”

“I'm quite tactile, so I like fabrics that feel good. I try to avoid fabrics that crease - especially with my son. When you have a child, that's important. A great pair of a jeans, a t-shirt...”

“When I was young, the constraints of Chinese society and my personal timid and cautious nature both drove me to seek a means to go against control. Gunpowder has an inherent uncertainty and...”

“When I was little, my dad told me about Anandpur Sahib and the court of Guru Gobind Singh. That we came from a tradition of poets, warriors and artists who created when it was illegal to cre...”

“One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.”

“Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman.”

“I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while...”

“Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.”

“For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.”

“In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.”

“I'm going to skate exactly the way I want to, create programs that I like, and everything will fall into place where it is supposed to.”

“What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as i...”

“I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.”

“David Beckham is always seen as the thickest man on the planet, too daft to complete a jigsaw puzzle. But then you watch old footage of him playing and every time he plays a ball across the...”

“Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.”

“What populates a comic-book convention? Well there's actors, and there's dealers, and there's comic-book artists and writers, and there's cosplay people, toy sales people, people who are sel...”

“I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers.”

“The Edmund Pettus Bridge - which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark - isn't symbolic of the Civil War in a meaningful way. It is, however, the modern-day battlefield where the...”

“Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body.”

“25 And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying 'Where is the flaming sword that was given unto thee?' 26 And the Angel said, 'I had it here only a moment ago, I m...”

“My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.”