Every accepted public quote

“In 1978, when I thought of creating a flag for the gay movement, there was no other international symbol for us than the pink triangle, which the Nazis used to identify homosexuals in concen...”

“You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.”

“The propensity to excessive simplification is indeed natural to the mind of man, since it is only by abstraction and generalisation, which necessarily imply the neglect of a multitude of par...”

“Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.”

“The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the 24 Iraqis or however many others they appoint, can govern the coun...”

“Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucke...”

“We each have our own tour bus. We've never done that before.”

“The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.”

“As we've seen, deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense. Countries typically don't want foreign soldiers in their cities and towns.”

“Funnily enough, I did a play called 'Jumpy' on the West End before I did 'Divergent,' and there was an essence of that character I played, called Cam, in Will. In the sense of his vulnerabil...”

“Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.”

“A more productive economy in the long term will bring us higher tax revenues, but that requires long-term investment in infrastructure and the skills necessary to grow a balanced economy.”

“I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our caree...”

“One of the things that I've always not liked is the modern players have always concentrated on dancing in the end zone and BSing when serious things were going on in this country that needed...”

“Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.”

“As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.”

“Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.”

“At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil.”

“I got my initiation into the Middle East in 1969 when I went there to teach at the American University in Cairo for two years.”

“I call my design style rustically modern. I like to take traditional or rustic features and fuse it into a more modern design.”

“Do the best, give the best and leave the rest to run after you!”

“I like wearing things that other people wouldn't want to wear, to be a bit edgy.”

“We're asking that the Compton citizens have a zero tolerance policy against violence.”

“Fashion should be fun. It shouldn't be labelled 'intellectual.'”

“When I was a boy, I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.”

“Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.”

“I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.”

“The discontented man finds no easy chair.”

“We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon...”

“I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.”

“Mashed potatoes with stuff in it? That's '90s.”

“Greediness of getting more, deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.”

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.”

“I learned in high school that I was going to have to outwork people. I remember running around the track, training for football, and a faster guy ran past me. I just figured, I can outlast h...”

“Once you become more like Madison Avenue, you become acutely sensitive to what's going to annoy your clients.”

“Alphabet would be a holding company to house its wackier or noncore efforts - like its Verily life sciences, Waymo self-driving cars, and Loon Internet balloon projects - while Google's adve...”

“My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter wat...”

“The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.”

“This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.”

“Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don't say a damn thing about that. You think we're still fighti...”

“We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.”

“If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.”

“I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family.”

“The integration of a headgear in professional boxing would do so much to make it safer for young men. They could go into the sport, make a lot of money and then come out and be good grandfat...”

“I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain...”

“As far as my mental approach, I really think it's just knowing that the past is really irrelevant.”

“I have always worried about who can read, who can't, who doesn't, and the great, life-altering consequences hidden within those distinctions.”

“With the release of the Dragon sensor... I have finished my mission. I am done posting. I will no longer be the face of Red.”