Every accepted public quote

“But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know wha...”

“There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and pr...”

“I went from being a big fish in a small pond to going to City with a lot of top players, I felt like I had to work really hard to be the best.”

“Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookselle...”

“The audience has its own gestalt, and it becomes another character - a character that changes each night.”

“Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.”

“I can stand here today, look you in the face, and say I'm proud of the efforts of 'ABC News.' I respect 'ABC News.' And I believe they work very hard to present news in an extremely fair way...”

“I get a little myopic in the act of doing any writing. I think I'm not as interested or not as able to write about balance, because I think there's something I want to try to get at. I'm try...”

“Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 36,000 people in the United States die of seasonal flu. In the developing world, the data i...”

“From Julia Child to 'The Galloping Gourmet' and the Food Channel and Cooking Channel, our fascination with the spectacle of cooking has been a mainstay of TV entertainment.”

“When push comes to shove, we all should know most Americans want the same things, but just disagree on how to get there, which is why it should be okay to not panic if the other party wins.”

“In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices - take the fight to the enemy or wait until they hit you again. In my estimation, America chose the first.”

“My dog Tucker likes to walk late at night because it is a good way to keep me awake. Apparently, the one time I took him for a stroll around midnight represented, to him, a commitment simila...”

“My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.”

“I've had business sense since I was very young. I sold chicken eggs when I was six.”

“No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and...”

“The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.”

“Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursue...”

“Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scienti...”

“When we set out to build Eventbrite, we had to face many challenges and come up with creative solutions to get past them. Each time we learned new ways to cope, we became a stronger and more...”

“I needed a capo - a clamp to hold down the strings - so my daddy made me one out of a corn on the cob and a rubber band.”

“Learning to read, for the brain, is a lot like an amateur ringmaster first learning how to organise a three-ring circus. He wants to begin individually and then synchronise all the performan...”

“Instagram has said plenty of times that I'm pregnant, Instagram has said a lot of things about me that are not true, so I don't even know where that's coming from.”

“The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.”

“I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often.”

“From my standpoint, I would make it very difficult on the NBA to even have any association with college basketball. I think it's ludicrous the way they take kids away that are certainly not...”

“I read papers, try to watch news programs on television, but, as a rule, recorded. During the day I have no time for that, so I watch something taped. As for the newspapers, I try to get thr...”

“She was a dreamer and a schemer & one didnt dream and scheme without hope.”

“If I tried to start modeling right now, I wouldn't be a supermodel because it's all about celebrity.”

“Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.”

“The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally...”

“I spend a lot of time doing watercolors and playing music in my apartment.”

“I love video games. I love, love, love them! I also love 'Star Wars.' I wish Jedi was a true religion.”

“Well, Fellini... there is always Fellini.”

“Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.”

“We get a lot of emails, a lot of suggestions on the kinds of ideas and things that people would like to do. There's a lot of good ones, but a lot of them are something that the franchise cou...”

“The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave...”

“States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.”

“When I was a kid, I was trendier. I'd wear anything. I was in love beads and platforms.”

“I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.”

“During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and big-box stores selling cheap goods from Ch...”

“Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own mind...”

“I listen to everything: The Pixies, The Beatles, The Avett Brothers.”

“I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.”

“Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpaye...”

“My organization, National Action Network (NAN), was on the ground talking and meeting with people in Ferguson, just as we did in Staten Island following Eric Garner's death.”

“My actions were intended solely to secure the repayment of funds, which I considered to be in the public interest, and I accept sole responsibility. I did not advise the prime minister of th...”

“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.”