Every accepted public quote

“One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade.”

“I started writing 'Normal People' not knowing that anyone would read it, not knowing that anyone would read the first book, so I didn't really have any hang ups about, 'Oh, I can't do this a...”

“Meeting all walks of life, it broadened your horizons, let's say that.”

“I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.”

“At my ashram, people work long hours joyfully because they are inspired. When people are involved and joyfully doing something, they usually turn out ten times more and do more than what the...”

“A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents.”

“I'll flip a stupid tire. But I ain't running.”

“There are real-world, devastating consequences for disabled women marginalised by the kinds of attitudes that deny them full agency over what happens to their bodies.”

“Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.”

“There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.”

“Arlen Specter left the GOP because it is a lot easier to win in Pennsylvania as a Democrat than as a Republican. It is that simple. For folks on the Right to brush this off as some sort of '...”

“I've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will.”

“Listen to your inner self, it knows you best.”

“There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.”

“For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.”

“You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.”

“Children need to be exploring their physical world. They need to be learning the fundamental laws of physics by manipulating objects.”

“My brother, a cardiologist, was among thousands of Muslims visited by the FBI in November 2001 and forced to submit to special registration fingerprinting, his photo and information forever...”

“Being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly.”

“Effectively transcending and conquering the legacies of enchainment, impoverishment and racial denigration continue to elude us. Residual elements of the plantation-based past continue to sh...”

“Don't go to sleep now, for you have been awakened. Don't shut your eyes, or you will put out the light. Stay awake to the power and force that guides and protects your divine essence.”

“On television, I have watched countless athletes from different countries, sports and Olympics stand proudly at the top of the podium and shed tears. They symbolized the Olympics for me beca...”

“I've been fortunate enough to experience financial success on a large scale through both my music career and my many business ventures. With this type of financial success comes financial re...”

“My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.”

“The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to bu...”

“Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered pro...”

“I do not regret working with Rupert Murdoch. But there is a nasty undertone to a lot of what he does which does not exist with the Barclays.”

“My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman...”

“Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest...”

“When you're doing a film that has so many effects, you do a lot of it on green screen, and you can't see what that world is.”

“What you hate has as much power over you as what you love.”

“After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity.”

“From caring comes courage.”

“Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.”

“A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through...”

“I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India's track record, but for many environmental problems, there are tec...”

“Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.”

“He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.”

“Extreme orthodoxy betrays by its very frenzy that the poison of skepticism has entered the soul of the church; for men insist most vehemently upon their certainties when their hold upon them...”

“Enrich your soul with Krishna consciousness and confine the heartfelt thirst”

“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”

“I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.”

“I'm from a wrestling family, a wrestling dynasty. And as biased as that may be, I firmly believe I am from the greatest wrestling family of all time.”

“There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.”

“You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.”

“The flow of knowledge towards the mind should be moderated by the faculties of the mind itself, based on the acceptability of nothing but the mind.”

“I thought 'The Hot Zone' was fascinating, mesmerizing. It's one of the things that got me interested in Ebola.”

“I don't know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for.”