Every accepted public quote

“There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.”

“God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.”

“If you're big at school, you've really got two choices. You're going to be a target. If you go to school, and you're me, you go, 'Right - I'm just going to make myself a bigger target. My co...”

“There can be no more burying our heads in the sand by being afraid to even mention the words 'climate change' aloud.”

“I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, bas...”

“If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.”

“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”

“Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.”

“To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.”

“[...] to me a new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of existence beyond himself [...]”

“I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.”

“I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.”

“Being under the political spotlight is far different than anything I'd experienced before. Every word is a critical word. Sometimes you really aren't allowed to get your full thought out. A...”

“I am making every effort to reach out to all party leaders with one clear message: Israel is bigger and more important than any one leader.”

“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”

“Denying science is resisting the power that has been given to us.”

“Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.”

“My big pet peeve with people posting food - and I love it when people post food - but my number one thing is when you're posting at a restaurant, and it's dark, like a date night, food never...”

“The one who treads in silence by your side in your darkness is the one who truly loves you”

“I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom,...”

“Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese.”

“When you fall, get right back up.”

“When I die and my memories die with me, all that will remain will be thousands of yellowing photographs and 35mm negatives in my filing cabinets.”

“The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his...”

“My party will do nothing on climate change because environment, it's a shared jurisdiction, and provinces, they have programs for that, and so I'll let provinces decide what they're going to...”

“'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.”

“Dream big, work with passion, and then let it be.”

“Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followe...”

“I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.”

“I remember, as a kid, when any woman/girl came close to my dad to get his autograph, I would throw a complete tantrum - yell shout and sometimes even fight!”

“Just speaking from growing up in the projects, it was hard for me to take dance classes or voice classes because I didn't have money. Or learn an instrument because I didn't have the money t...”

“To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across...”

“But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.”

“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.”

“Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.”

“I've tried writing with music on, but I find it distracting.”

“Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.”

“If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap?”

“Your vision, is where you see yourself tomorrow. Your goal, is what you want to achieve tomorrow. Your commitment, is what you will become tomorrow.”

“It become totally untenable to me that after acting for 25 years - I've played Juliet, Cleopatra and Anne Frank - there I was, sitting in Hollywood, just waiting for somebody to want me.”

“'Animal House' was my first movie, so I didn't have anything to compare it to. I was a sight gag more than anything else. So I can't say it was one of those things where your life changes. W...”

“Your life is your decision.”

“Just like the most beautiful symphonies my words are my piano keys.”

“She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand, o...”

“There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.”

“It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did,...”

“Erudition - that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic - is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized tr...”

“You can't become a CEO without working hard and delivering results, but that will only take you so far. Building and leveraging strong relationships with mentors and sponsors will take you t...”