Every accepted public quote

“When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'”

“Bush began helping Enron in the eighties.”

“I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, bu...”

“I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.”

“Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.”

“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”

“Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: h...”

“Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word 'myth' only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.”

“My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.”

“Journalists immediately think of me as a resource for a quote or comment because they know that I will be available to offer fresh insight and meet their deadlines.”

“A Photographer's Poem To take a photograph is to learn new steps Like a toddler's first walk from start to end Visualize a dream, a paradigm, a theme It could be about anywhere, anyone, any...”

“In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.”

“Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.”

“I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.”

“My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one pe...”

“I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and priv...”

“For people that don't have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don't want to analyze... those aren't the people I romanticize about dressin...”

“One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.”

“If you observe children with sufficient objectivity as they grow into the world, then you will perceive that children's temporal bodies are still not fully connected with the spirit-soul. Th...”

“In truth, the history of political thought is an end in itself, the highest peak of political education. The crowning achievement of political knowledge, it will be argued in these pages, co...”

“As a young writer, I learned a lot about grammatical structure from reading plays, from performing the plays. I think that was a wonderful apprenticeship.”

“Polyester is easy to work with and results in clothing that is well suited to the needs of a modern lifestyle.”

“I always could putt. Part of my makeup, I always could putt.”

“I wanna chase down Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith. I would love to start my film career.”

“The Skakel family, when they married into the Kennedys, was so wealthy, they could have purchased the Kennedy family.”

“Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.”

“Despite the volume of 'junk' mail that students receive each year, companies that have an interest in selling their product to students say direct mailing is a key to their success.”

“You know what, I'm very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I'm just a sucker for somebody that is charming.”

“The Eurasian union is a project meant to preserve the identities of nations and the historic Eurasian community in the new century, in a new world.”

“I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share...”

“Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.”

“Hope is the escapist drug of the hopeless.”

“The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell.”

“I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse.”

“Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.”

“When our systematic knowledge of human expressive behavior is more advanced, it will be possible to study the literary and historical documents of the past and to determine the expressed and...”

“The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.”

“We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.”

“The Democratic Party has had a real problem with recruitment because the party too often looks at just who's next in line in the party to run rather than in finding inspiring new leaders.”

“It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.”

“It is a holy blessing to be born with the exquisite qualities of a daughter of God. Women of God, both old and young, are spiritual and sensitive, tender and gentle. They have a kind, nurtur...”

“Sir Terry Pratchett - he was knighted in 2009, and on him it looked earned rather than entitled - wrote about dragons, wizards, turtles, witches, time-travelling monks, and suitcases with le...”

“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none.”

“They may not deserve forgiveness, but I do.”

“I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, h...”

“I never understood the hit-single, quick-success, get-airplay mentality.”

“I am extremely proud of my rags-to-riches story. It's fun to be a misfit or an underdog if you acknowledge your gifts and befriend your obstacles.”

“My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'”