Every accepted public quote

“Drama school was a lifeline for me, it saved me. I found it very nurturing - I just clung on.”

“Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.”

“I was brought into the life of one Bas Rutten in 2001 at a grappling tournament that I was attending to support a friend of mine. I had never met Bas before but, of course, knew who he was:...”

“The attitude of the business community towards investment in Austria and Germany has always been positive, as both the countries have earned their reputation as countries with a consistent e...”

“President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a good thing. But, he doesn't understand that damaging the free marketplace in pursuit of 's...”

“I don't know, but I always loved that image of a girl putting toenail polish on a guy - her boyfriend, or something like that. Or a guy waking up in the morning and reaching over and putting...”

“Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.”

“I had a mild case of polio - not enough to put me in an iron lung, but enough to keep me bedridden for weeks. As I came out of it, my mom wanted to do something for me. She realized that, gr...”

“We may very well be faced with the choice of retaining the AAA credit rating or abandoning some of our key infrastructure projects, which are about jobs for the future. I will choose jobs in...”

“It is tact that is golden, not silence.”

“A good book has no ending.”

“Marriage, like love, is an aspiration. It's a process.”

“I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.”

“I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a...”

“Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.”

“Actually, Change isn't Change”

“There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new normal.”

“I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.”

“Vin brule is a version of mulled wine enjoyed in Piemonte, in northwestern Italy. It's a perfect choice for holiday entertaining because you can double or even triple the recipe and leave it...”

“There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions...”

“I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we ca...”

“What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.”

“The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.”

“If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.”

“Broadband Internet access shouldn't depend on who you are or where you're from.”

“Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.”

“Either we die as men, or live as legends.”

“There are so many games where you fight aliens or zombies, and they have very high-fidelity graphics, but they don't ask the question of why the events are happening.”

“There is no separation between the black community and the LGBT community. As a black, queer woman myself, I often have to assert, right, that it's not one or the other but that I am all of...”

“Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.”

“A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.”

“I'm ready for Joseph Parker. The question is, is he ready for me?”

“Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it's a good song.”

“I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble.”

“Sometimes you have to lie to yourself to get through the criticism, and then you're in your closet crying. It's been like that for me a couple of times, but I only want to learn from those t...”

“The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.”

“I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morning. I'll read the front page of 'The New York Times,' then the op-eds, then scan the arts section and then...”

“We focus sometimes too much on the minimum wage, and we should be talking about living wages and middle class wages and pensions and benefits and the kind of thing that people in the industr...”

“On 'Friday,' I had a big trailer, and we would have a barbecue going and music playing. It was a fun set. There was too much involved for 'The Hangover' to be a fun set. They're trying to ge...”

“I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.”

“The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.”

“I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.”

“You can't spend your life apologizing.”

“I made it to protect the motherland.”

“I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.”

“You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.”

“We worked so hard, spent so much time in weight room and in camps to be where we are today. We wanted to come out and be as good as any team in the state, to prove we could hang with any tea...”

“What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.”