Every accepted public quote

“Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of torpor and hopelessness - only to overshoot into quaking, quivering anxiety.”

“You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.”

“Some people think wearing powder ages them, but try it anyway. For me it mattes my makeup and blends it well.”

“Migrants don't come to the United States because, as Ambassador Aponte argued in her press conference, of 'lies' told by smugglers that, once here, you can't get deported. They come because...”

“I love Eric Clapton.”

“I, like most millennials, am disillusioned with the net return of academia, but I have not been cheated by education. I have been cheated by a corrupt system, and it is education that has ta...”

“To be under a physical bondage or a mental bondage is one of the worst situations someone could ever be in life.”

“Manouri is a Greek ewes' milk cheese that's light in colour and texture. It's fresh and milky, and goes well with other subtle flavours.”

“I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.”

“America loses so much of what defines it if you subtract the Chinese influence. I know this because I spent 12 years living in one of America's most popular tourist destinations: San Francis...”

“Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.”

“I'm not shutting myself off from kids; I'm remaining open to kids and the energy that they bring.”

“The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.”

“Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution...”

“When I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching. I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City publ...”

“When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.”

“The lampshade on my head is for my bright ideas. I won't be able to convey them until Monday, when my curtain gets out of the dry cleaners.”

“What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....”

“You can't be sensitive, because you're going to get criticized. I don't care who you are, you're going to get criticized.”

“How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question and, pen and dagger tucked under cloak, search for...”

“...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. A...”

“I am deeply troubled by Mylan's misclassification of the EpiPen as a generic drug.”

“We've got a thing called the 'tall puppy syndrome' in New Zealand, where if anyone is doing really well, it's quite common to try and bring them down - like, cut them down and say, 'You've b...”

“Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.”

“Just remember, the difference between being good versus being great is just a few points, inches, or seconds.”

“Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.”

“Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you've done to other people.”

“I saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9.”

“Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.”

“You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.”

“Touch is more important than arm strength. You want to really allow the receiver to run underneath the throw. It'll give you a little margin for error if you undershoot it a bit.”

“People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they rea...”

“I don't want people who are in poverty, in pain, or suffering, to suffer because it's for their own good and they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I want to help them. I want us a...”

“Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it's more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.”

“There are a lot of pros and cons about social media; it's just how you choose to handle it and how you have to be prepared for the negatives as well.”

“Death was not the scariest thing out there; no, the denial of it could be far worse.”

“Professor Hawking is heralded as 'the genius of Britain,' yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that life sprang from non-life. Why should anyon...”

“My sister and I shared a bedroom our entire lives and I believe she discovered the Beatles when she was about 11 and I'm four years younger. So from the age of 7 until 17 we had nothing but...”

“Life is but love.”

“Spiritual fulfillment doesn't have to mean belief in a religion or disbelief in science. ... Whether one believes in an unseen, all-knowing force, or the wonder of science and the universe,...”

“My earliest memories are being in the lab, and the way the cement felt and the way it smelled, and the way the countertops looked and it just being this wonderful, warm, happy place where it...”

“What you think, believe and do makes all the difference.”

“My dad played fiddle as well.”

“Because I'm on my own on stage and wear bare feet and look like a pixie, people always think I'm little.”

“Where wages command labor, as in the non-slaveholding States, there necessarily takes place between labor and capital a conflict, which leads, in process of time, to disorder, anarchy, and r...”

“Originally they wanted me to be Buster but I really like the Tobias part.”

“Loving yourself is required for authentic relationships.”

“You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.”