Every accepted public quote

“I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made c...”

“Whenever you are in transition it is always important to choose the words that you use. You call it crises in your life and I call it transition.”

“As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not truly inclusive.”

“I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up.”

“I was raised in a deeply Catholic family. There was a sense that everything we were doing was to prepare ourselves for an afterlife in heaven. In my teenage years, that became less important...”

“I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery, the offering, the pride.”

“The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.”

“When it comes to jewellery, less is more as you get older. Just before I go out to a party, I look at myself in the mirror and take off half of the jewellery I'm wearing. Anything that rattl...”

“My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.”

“I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area.”

“Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits,...”

“Even though I can't dance, that's, like, the one thing I wished I could do growing up. I used act like I was MJ, doing the moonwalk, tip toes, leg kick, all that.”

“Country music is what is sincere; that's the main thing.”

“I seem to get motivated a few months at a time, and then something stressful breaks the routine, and I just fold.”

“If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.”

“There's only going be one Richard Pryor. You know how many came out after Richard Pryor and died trying to be compared to him? Or Bernie Mac? You got to be like you.”

“The Beltway media went into caroming-off-the-walls hysterics over Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, whipping itself into a flaming casserole even as Clinton's standing with the American peop...”

“And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere!”

“You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I've got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself t...”

“I am so scared of the 'Paranormal Activity' movies. I didn't think I was going to be able to sleep.”

“I moved seven times the first seven years I coached.”

“If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.”

“President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.”

“'Rent' was one of the main defining moments, and it was like the precipice of my transition.”

“I used to audition for 'NYPD Blue' quite a bit, so I had this stock New York detective character that I would bring in for all their auditions.”

“You can hear my dreams? God, you must never get any quiet. I'd be shooting myself in the head if I were you.”

“No, I'll stay Ice-T. This is what got me here, I'm always going to stay true to that. If it weren't for hip-hop I wouldn't be doing all these other things.”

“You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.”

“What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.”

“If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt.”

“The e-reading revolution may have reached our shores this year but it has yet to reckon with Australia's summer holidays. Intense sunlight plays havoc with screens and the sand invades every...”

“Seventeen consecutive years of irregular war, extended years of budget uncertainty, and an increasing complex security environment have eroded our competitive edge.”

“The Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated media outlets in Egypt tried to sour the ties between our two countries, but our ties are very strong. No negative stance has been taken by either side agai...”

“To unlock the greatest mysteries we must accept that we are nothing and all that we do know is relative to the size of The Earth in the universes.”

“We live in a world of easy friendships - people here for you when it's easy, 'so-sorry-but-I-have-an-errand-to-do-now' when it's not.”

“I guess I was just always one of those guys who asked those fundamental questions: 'Who am I? What's this for? Why? What does this mean? Is this real?' All these pretty basic questions. I li...”

“Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.”

“The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the...”

“I love 'The Walking Dead.' I'm a massive fan of that show.”

“Awareness and compassion are the flower and the fragrance of the spiritual teacher. Compassion means living to give.”

“Who am I - Canada's Rodney Dangerfield? I get no respect.”

“I don't practice love in war and war in love”

“So use your own property as not to injure that of another.”

“I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.”

“My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true.”

“Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.”

“I wanted to play blues. But I wasn't blue enough. I wasn't like Muddy Waters, people who really had it hard. In our house, we had food on the table. We were doing well compared to many. So I...”

“Particularly for back-to-school, braids are a great way of showcasing your personal style. It doesn't stop at your clothes; it extends to how you wear your hair.”