Every accepted public quote

“Happiness depends not on things around me, but on my attitude.”

“I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are as...”

“I love New York. It just reminds me of so many movies... I look up at buildings, and feel like Godzilla should be climbing up them or something.”

“If Harvard officials ban the microfridge, it will leave undergraduates without any cooking appliances at all allowed in their rooms.”

“My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.”

“We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.”

“They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have be...”

“This is not the beginning of American civilization where we need guns because it's the Wild, Wild West... There should not be guns in our society, and we all know that; politicians know that...”

“The thing about my fridge is, it's a family fridge, so there's a little of something everybody likes in there.”

“There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies imposition of pressure to achieve improved statisti...”

“When I had introduced 'Kandy Floss,' I was a bundle of nerves... I had done a non-fiction programme before - 'Kosmiic Chat' with Sunita Menon. But this one I was really scared of.”

“I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess.”

“There were occasions when Shakespeare was a very bad writer indeed. You can see how often in books of quotations. People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.”

“F. Gary Gray, I think, is one of the best directors I've ever worked with in my life, and I'd love to work with him again.”

“She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find...”

“If everything in the universe evolves toward increasing disorder, it must have started out in an exquisitely ordered arrangement. This whole chain of logic, purporting to explain why you can...”

“I've always loved when girls carry their wallets as a clutch instead of a bag.”

“Today is a gift that will be taken from you at day's end. Don't waste a moment, a chance, a lesson. You'll never live today again.”

“Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?”

“I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.”

“When we see the world superficially, we see individuals who appear independent of each other. We fail to see through our senses how deeply connected we are with each other at the spiritual l...”

“It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.”

“I see that I can do good, I can help free political prisoners, I can raise questions that are silenced on the national level, I can talk about Navalny and others on national television chann...”

“I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself.”

“Accelerating technology innovations such as ubiquitous sensors, cheap computing power, and 5G networks will open entirely new opportunities and challenges.”

“She was born to be free, let her run wild in her own way and you will never lose her.”

“I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world will be happening in my lifetime.”

“If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.”

“Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.”

“I'm not a fan of second-hand or vintage clothes.”

“Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.”

“God is ever busy in freeing you from the tangle of worldly friendship and attachments which are in their very nature unstable and unreliable, and, therefore, bring you nothing but sorrows an...”

“Trying to forget or hide your mistakes is a huge error. Rather, hold them near and dear to your heart. Wear them proudly.”

“Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.”

“The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)”

“One of the main concerns of philosophy is to warn people against jumping to conclusions.”

“Getting the care for a common cold, migraine, or high blood pressure can and should be easy, whether one has an insurance card or not.”

“Love finds its way back home.”

“If I change my name again y'all can have me certified as crazy. Alright?”

“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of p...”

“There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.”

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: T am here to live out loud.'”

“The Internet's a driving force in the change from mass media to 'my media,' in which consumers will be their own programmers.”

“Nowadays, a critic has to watch 700, 800 films a year, and I know through experience, being a juror in prestigious film festivals where supposedly the best films are arriving, from twenty fi...”

“I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.”

“I took tap and ballet, which likely contributed to my sense of rhythm and showmanship. I love creating music that gets people moving together, free of inhibitions.”

“The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.”

“For the foreseeable future, I'm all about building blockchain-based decentralized services.”