Every accepted public quote

“If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.”

“My dad's from that generation like a lot of immigrants where he feels like if you come to this country, you pay this thing like the American dream tax: like you're going to endure some racis...”

“I could never understand why they did that to Barry Sanders in Detroit. I know that's one of the reasons why he retired, because they took him out on third down and let someone else catch th...”

“Statement earrings and statement necklaces each deserve their own moment. I never wear the two together; it looks overdone.”

“No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the wo...”

“I am confident that our experience, our scale, our intimate knowledge of the needs of our customers put us on the front line of economic and social progress.”

“Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.”

“A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.”

“Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our time, our love, our resources.”

“But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accou...”

“It is impossible for Bangladesh alone to take action against the rising sea level, as it has been a cumulative effect of global emission in which Bangladesh does not have any role. It is the...”

“That's how I grew up. Just play defense - and make a basket.”

“I grew up in Washington State and then eventually found my way back to Iowa City for grad school.”

“You try and help something, and later on it bites you, so it's a hard decision, but as a country, as a nation, people need our help.”

“He's as cool as a prized marrow!”

“There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.”

“There is an English saying that the king is always happy, or, 'happy as the king' - which is not true at all. But I can be as happy as a king if all of you know what is right and what is wro...”

“Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another televisi...”

“What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.”

“I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.”

“Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.”

“I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision.”

“You wouldn't catch me dead in a fanny pack.”

“Unfortunately, most gun control advocates are not really interested in rational debate, and their political games simply send Alice chasing white rabbits down holes.”

“The errors in media polling rarely benefit a Republican.”

“It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music.... Harmony, like a following breeze at sea, is the exception. In a world where most things wind up broken or lost, our lot is to tac...”

“Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union.”

“The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president.”

“Wolves mated for life. Where was he? Where was the echo to her howl, her mate? Was there no other lone wolf, searching the hills for her?”

“Ali even told me in the ring, 'You can't beat me - I'm your Lord.' I just told him, 'Lord, you're in the wrong place tonight.'”

“The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'”

“With brain hacking experiments, I've hacked into Morgan Freeman's brain. He was the most famous and the most nerve wracking because I got really awestruck when I met him, and the moment I wa...”

“I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Th...”

“Your job is to focus on my personal happiness, she said, & I've got big plans, so break time is over.”

“That wasn't love; that was stupidity.”

“The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were these demonic evil children, cause when you're a kid, seven or eig...”

“I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.”

“My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.”

“There's a lot of different styles of hypnosis. There's conversational hypnosis, which, even though we joke about it, politicians use conversational hypnosis. I've been hired back at home in...”

“Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.”

“Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.”

“This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.”

“I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.”

“I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games i...”

“Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans of the Christian system may be to believe or to acknowledge it, it is nevertheless true,...”

“Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.”

“Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.”

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