Every accepted public quote

“Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!”

“I think we need to not speak over black women, not assign them labels.”

“Think about this: You don't know when these people are going to die. They could get into a car today and be killed on the way home. Did they ever hear about Jesus? God has put you in their l...”

“In whatever number of years I have on Earth, I think that promoting the values of free expression, the openness of the Internet, that's the best use of my time.”

“I have a best friend in my life who I know is my soulmate.”

“A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.”

“The morning weighs on my shoulders with the dreadful weight of hope and I take the blue envelope which Jacques has sent me and tear it slowly into many pieces, watching them dance in the win...”

“A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn't. Fiction writers are born liars.”

“I think we're not going to preserve Fannie and Freddie in anything like their current form. We're going to have to bring fundamental change to that market.”

“I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.”

“My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.”

“I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.”

“Common sense is not so common.”

“I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just saw the ability in me - but when it came down to it, I knew my best chance at a college sc...”

“Open-mindedness simplifies knowledge acquisition.”

“When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest,...”

“God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis.”

“Honestly, I just wear what makes me feel good. So many people come up to me, and they're like, 'Did you know you're a tomboy? You should try wearing dresses.'”

“The most fearless hearts, the audacious dreamers, have always maintained a sense of optimism that often flies in the face of the available evidence.”

“It is the common wish of the people that the autocratic rule of the Manchu government be overthrown, that the Republic of China be strengthened, and that people's livelihood and welfare be p...”

“My kindest interpretation of my younger self is, 'Boy, was I busy.' I had two kids, a husband, two stepkids. I mean, how many darn things can a person do at the end of the day?”

“If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.”

“With the rights now in our loving hands, I'm beyond excited to bring 'The Green Hornet' into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way: modernizing it and making it accessible to a w...”

“The international community should pressure Iran to get the Houthis to agree to some peaceful understanding in Yemen. But at the same time, Saudi Arabia also needs to believe truly in democr...”

“Nothing shatters the relationship between you and your boss like you failing to meet expectations, deadlines, and goals.”

“'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.”

“Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.”

“Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.”

“I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before...”

“The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt...”

“A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.”

“' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to b...”

“There's so much excellent new music around that I can't afford to buy it all and I haven't the time to review as much as I'd like. I can't remember a better time to be a musician or to liste...”

“I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.”

“Triple H is a former bodybuilder. He's all about bodies. He thought that Hulk Hogan was the greatest wrestler in the world. They think Ultimate Warrior was the greatest wrestler in the world...”

“We're still not where we're going, but we're not where we were.”

“Coming out of the 2016 election, there was a few things that became really clear. One, that black people deserve to have vehicles that represent the breadth of our interests. Two, that we re...”

“When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply 'Ours.'”

“Schooling people in the ways of ongoing discernment produces a greater receptivity to the tradition of the church and at the same time creates the freedom that will make them more responsive...”

“Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.”

“Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.”

“I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to be stricter than most. But even though it's like, 'Oh, gosh, I've gotta be in at this time,'...”

“We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.”

“There's always the danger when you have influenzas that infect chickens, that when you have the close quarters of chickens spreading from one to another and occasionally a human coming into...”

“I have an aversion to laugh tracks - the moment I hear a laugh track, I go to another channel.”

“For adults to enjoy something, they need to have intellectual stimulation, something that's related to real life.”

“Let's get loose with compassion. Let's drown in the delicious ambiance of love.”

“Be the Light you seek so desperately in your life and chase away that darkness.”