Every accepted public quote

“Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.”

“There's a couple of tracks on the new record which is sort of using similar sort of rhythms as the drum and bass tracks but playing it all live. It's a new approach to it.”

“I'm not keen on cars and motorbikes. I tried to be a biker, but it wasn't me - I bought a Harley-Davidson and dumped it.”

“I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning.”

“One of the things that happens to you if you write about restaurants - one of the reasons restaurant critics are the real heroes - is that whenever anyone has a grievance about any aspect of...”

“Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?”

“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the w...”

“I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.”

“I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who th...”

“If you find a series of linear shapes in the same alignment as known archaeological features, and they match excavated examples, you still need to excavate to confirm, but you can be fairly...”

“I prefer advanced midfield, like a No. 10, but you know me: I'll play anywhere for Villa.”

“Having a skill makes you undeniable.”

“The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.”

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”

“My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.”

“I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol of oppression. Now, as long as a woman chooses to wear the veil, because that's her...”

“The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.”

“If people perceive you as a good actor then they'll wish for you to be a good actor and they'll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you're going to clubs every night pe...”

“The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.”

“A lie cannot live.”

“I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.”

“I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.”

“I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actuall...”

“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”

“Golf made me feel like a loser. So I dismissed it.”

“Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your opportunity.”

“Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top...”

“If you can take my tax money and assure me that it'll go to the right purpose, that it will help the poor, then fine. But I'm not sure a lot of it does. In fact, I know a lot of it doesn't.”

“Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play music recorded by others, stay true to the original, and still add fire and flare,...”

“Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.”

“I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant.”

“I don't have Twitter, but Lady Gaga tweeted at me - like, reposted an interview where I was fangirling - and wrote, 'Katherine' with a love heart. And I kind of freaked out a little bit.”

“Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders.”

“For all the splendours of the world's greatest galleries, visitors are likely to be kept at arm's length, spectators of a world that can seem too rarefied to let them in.”

“I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times.”

“I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.”

“Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.”

“I'm an independent, straight in the middle. I've donated to candidates that I thought would be good that are Republican and Democrats alike.”

“It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.”

“One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.”

“I first met Dr. King in 1954 when I was a student at Alabama State University and a member of a local church down there. He was in town to organize a rally against public transportation. Ros...”

“I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.”

“The moment I came out as a gay man, I never really thought of the consequences. Of course, the proverbial happened: it hits the newswires, and it's this big, big thing.”

“Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no religious reason whatsoever, but because of the varieties of stories, which might be us...”

“A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig and create soil disturbance, something it can't do in a concentrated feeding environment....”

“What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.”

“Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.”

“I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.”