Every accepted public quote

“In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.”

“I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.”

“To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued that food is good, while surfeit kills; that love is good,...”

“This is a problem, how can we have a body of knowledge and understanding and resist the temptation to misread the interest of the people because we're looking for an opportunity to unload th...”

“The only thing I want to be satisfied in life is to do one reunion tour with Guns N' Roses. I would like to finish what I started with them.”

“In Romania it was normal that when you got a facial someone would tweeze your brows.”

“I had two roles for which I compromised.”

“I think success is a relative term. If you're a caveman, success is capturing an elephant. Success is achieving better than the norm. Success is being exceptional. It's exceptional reputatio...”

“Every fight is a new story, a new training camp.”

“To be sure Plato did not favor 'affirmative action' to fill political and military offices in his own society; nor did he enroll women in his school.”

“We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy Earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it.”

“When you live in Beijing for a while, you gain a finely tuned understanding of air.”

“However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for th...”

“I like most of the venture capitalists I know; they're smart, well-intended guys who genuinely enjoy helping entrepreneurs succeed. And I love venture capital and investment capital of all c...”

“To be or not to be: that is the question. That's from Hamlet's - maybe Shakespeare's - most famous soliloquy. I had to memorize the whole speech for sophomore English, and I can still rememb...”

“My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.”

“I'm ambitious. I work hard.”

“If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality th...”

“There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.”

“What would people think?' Jesus said that people think all sorts of things. The human mind is like a cloud of gnats. Constant motion. That's why you have to look at the heart. 'Oh,' said Gra...”

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live, the mo...”

“This country was created from stolen land and stolen labor. And from a moral perspective, but also from a practical one, everybody knows that when you steal, you're always looking over your...”

“I really loved traveling the U.S. and seeing regional differences within the same country and how the same ingredients are used in very different ways. I love how the 'old guard' of cuisine...”

“Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.”

“I keep my hair curly and natural because I really just wanna show who I am.”

“Most students have thoughts about emigrating to Israel. A significant number go on aliyah. We are proud of our Israel programs, which come at a considerable cost to the university.”

“From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.”

“The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an e...”

“That's the time that I enjoy: away from the cameras, away from the audience, the scenery of going out to eat and everybody's staring at me.”

“Be the person you want to be, not the person other people want you to be.”

“Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose-these are the things that mar or bless human happiness.”

“Trying to be a leader in a sort of very atypical workplace like 'Saturday Night Live' forces you to realize that no one wants you to be their leader. If you can help them get their thing on...”

“We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.”

“Speak to God about your situation.”

“For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.”

“Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower....beautiful in essence.”

“I love shopping! I'm impatient though. I'll go to the mall and in 30 minutes be ready to go.”

“Anytime you share life stories with other people, you know, you are acknowledging their humanity and kind of accessing some things about yourself, and other people start to expect things abo...”

“Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.”

“I always wrote everything - I wrote all the lyrics, I wrote all the melodies, everything; it's just somebody else sung it. And to me, the singer is nothing else than a different... like a ba...”

“Without any doubt, I'm convinced that Hillary Clinton represents less individuality, flexibility for the states, a weaker national defense. And you know, for all those reasons, we ought to g...”

“Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.”

“Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.”

“There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.”

“Nothing manifests more persuasively the American contradiction than that the author of the Declaration of Independence, a slave owner, wrote an antislavery clause into the document - as if t...”

“The fourth amendment specifically was designed to prohibit general warrants. How could collecting every piece of phone data be perceived as anything but a general warrant?”

“I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.”

“The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.”