Every accepted public quote

“My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.”

“Our team at Duolingo is really cohesive, but this did not just happen. I made a concerted effort to hire people who are going to play nice.”

“If you take a look at the breaches of rights, whether it's the underfunding of education or health care, and all these issues which accentuate the poverty of Canada's indigenous people, and...”

“I'm actually very snobbish about directors. I have to say 'no' all the time. 'No' is the most powerful word in our business. You've got to protect yourself.”

“Freedom means everything to me. It is the most essential right that every person deserves. Most people take it for granted, but not North Koreans.”

“When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapsesl wh...”

“Sometimes a polemic tweeter is more important than a normal view.”

“Science ignores the spiritual realm because it is not amenable to scientific analysis. As importantly, the predictive success of Newtonian theory, emphasizing the primacy of a physical Unive...”

“Education is not about thinning the herd. Education is about helping every student succeed.”

“I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.”

“Everyone is born with the qualifications to become rich, just as they have the qualifications to be loved”

“I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.”

“Candidates and their consultants keep making the same mistake. They assume that all independents are bundled neatly together ideologically between Republicans and Democrats.”

“Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.”

“In life there are good and bad situations. But when you are down in the valley looking up at the mountain, sometimes you realize that you can see the stars a little clearer. You realize what...”

“Every country should conduct its own reforms, should develop its own model, taking into account the experience of other countries, whether close neighbours or far away countries.”

“I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away.”

“When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.”

“I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.”

“President Obama's astonishing failure to secure an orderly transition in Iraq has unnecessarily put at risk the victories that were won through the blood and sacrifice of thousands of Americ...”

“It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.”

“We knew the promise had never been safety, or that bad things would not happen if we were good and virtuous. The promise is only that God is in it with us, no matter what it is.”

“Even though Haitian women are considered the 'poto mitan' - the 'central pillars' of the family and their communities - they are often the most underserved members of already poor communitie...”

“There is no movement without our own resistance.”

“The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.”

“To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.”

“My natural gravitation is toward the gray and the black and the white and the burgundy. Sort of muted, cool colors.”

“As I can testify, living in a foreign country takes you way out of your comfort zone. It's the little things, like ordering food in a different language, buying petrol or learning to drive o...”

“Transnational organized cybercriminal groups have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from financial institutions and ordinary citizens.”

“The goal of isolating extremists and making them unwelcome in Muslim communities has been abandoned.”

“Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.”

“I created 'America's Next Top Model' one-hundred percent. I was in my kitchen making tea one morning, and I looked out the window, and the idea popped into my head. I wanted it to be 'Americ...”

“What man in his 40s would not like to look in the mirror and find Nolan Ryan?”

“The vision of the human being is confined today to the physical body. One regards this as a reality; one cannot raise oneself to what is spiritual. The souls who now look upon their own phys...”

“I probably learned more about Marion Barry listening to Chris Rock than I did reading a headline.”

“He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.”

“How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?”

“God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts; who best Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best; His state Is kingly; thousands at His bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean witho...”

“My hairline is receding. So my days as a romantic lead - even though I've never had them - are behind me.”

“When I served in the Army, along the Iron Curtain we had a word for a person who absconds with information and provides it to another nation: traitor. We also had a name for a person who cho...”

“Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.”

“Having a co-founder is incredible, but it has to be the right person: someone who shares your values and ethics, absolutely, but also someone who has a similar vision for the future in terms...”

“Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.”

“What will you do with all your newly found available time?”

“Kaizad Gustad is quite crazy, and he has weird ideas, and 'Boom' is one such idea. It's a crazy film by a crazy guy. It's almost a satire, a black comedy.”

“I can cook, but I also want everything to look beautiful on the plate - then I get upset when people eat it. Everyone just tears through it, and that makes me sad. It's not a rewarding exper...”

“The French view is really one of balance, I think... What French women would tell me over and over is, it's very important that no part of your life - not being a mom, not being a worker, no...”

“The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood.”