Every accepted public quote

“Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions.”

“There's a duality in every man and every woman.”

“In order to develop the country's sports in line with the great leaders' ideas and plan of developing Juche-based sports, our Party directs great efforts to the work of the sports sector.”

“The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves”

“Reaction is a habit that comes out naturally”

“The visionary, industrious, Christian, and segregated black community of the early- to mid-1960s understood and embraced the importance of a positive self-perception. It was this same recogn...”

“I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.”

“I think there's a lot of taboos in hip-hop that people try and stay away from. I think a big one is, people are afraid to speak about God to a certain extent, and I think if you're not free...”

“I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or...”

“Obviously I was well aware that I had what people consider a privileged upbringing. My mom was never a bake-cookies sort of mom. I really had no reins whatsoever.”

“I realised my dream of playing for England when I first met Claire Taylor and then Charlotte Edwards at the age of 11. I didn't even know there was an England Women's team until then.”

“The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants...”

“Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.”

“To me, there is nothing higher than fiction. Nothing. It is fundamentally who I am. I am a teller of stories. For me, that's the only way I can make sense of the world, with all the dance th...”

“Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but inste...”

“I hope wholeheartedly that badminton will be as popular and respected as tennis one day.”

“One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.”

“Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses...”

“I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.”

“In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and make precious little time available for their off...”

“What matters to me as a creative artist is the credibility of the production house, the honesty in the script, and the way the filmmaker has conceived the characters in the narrative.”

“I'm not obsessed by how I look or with being reed thin, but I do think that as a woman in my 50s, I have 40 years ahead. Looking after yourself goes hand in hand with looking good.”

“The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.”

“I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.”

“The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror.”

“I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unhappy with what they're doing, or not achieving things - when your focus is off-kilter. The thing th...”

“I don't think God wants to be worshiped. I think the only pure worship of God is by loving one another, and I think all other forms of worship became a substitute for the love that we should...”

“I've always been attracted to weirdos.”

“What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset bubbles and irrational exuberance. There are periods of booms, bubbles, and mani...”

“Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it d...”

“Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a 'living' document.”

“What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the...”

“In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.”

“Growing up in Dallas, my first influences on the guitar were T-Bone Walker and Les Paul. T-Bone taught me how to play lead guitar behind my head and do the splits in 1951 when I was nine.”

“'We Will Rock You' is one of my favorite shows. I first saw it when I was a student at the Royal Academy and loved it.”

“Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis.' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see when the choice is made.”

“I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this cou...”

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge”

“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”

“My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'”

“Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted t...”

“I didn't play organized football until I was in the seventh grade. Up until that point, I only played at recess and in the backyard.”

“I wanted to write a song about war and that classic 'We want you' recruitment style from the point of view of the recruiter.”

“You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.”

“I don't think Bond does too much; he's just suave and sexy. He rolls out with his martini and fancy cars. Wow, it sounds like my life already.”

“I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.”

“What's distinctively shocking about Machiavelli is that he didn't care. He believed not only that politicians must do evil in the name of the public good, but also that they shouldn't worry...”

“Reforming PERA will strengthen and improve Colorado's all-important long term standing with credit rating agencies.”