Every accepted public quote

“You're always one of the only girls, because there are so many male writers, and there are not enough good parts for women.”

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

“I'm committed to winning. The leadership of the Liberal Party is always the gift of the parliamentary Liberal Party, and I never make any presumptions on it.”

“The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to the needs of the more or less unfolded consciousness connected w...”

“I search my name on Twitter because I don't want to miss the compliments, and I favorite the nice things people say about me so they know I saw it. People are more positive than they are neg...”

“Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.”

“Just take my hand, lead, dance with me...and I will simply follow the blueness of the water, the white waves rolling free...where the earth beneath my feet and stars make my heart whole agai...”

“The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.”

“In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in...”

“I would never give advice, because I would feel very presumptuous.”

“I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.”

“Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.”

“I love simple foods as well as grand. Dinners that take a half-hour from skillet to plate are as important as a five-course dinner. A meal that can materialize in an hour and be presented wi...”

“When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.”

“To me, being creative is a very fragile thing. The environment in which one can create is a very particular one, and somehow, I've always felt the need to be very protective of that.”

“Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.”

“Alcohol - once you drink it, it enters your bloodstream roughly in about an hour's time and begins to get processed. It doesn't sit around in your stomach for a long period of time.”

“Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.”

“I have my own spiritual guru, and I'm so happy, and I feel so satisfied that I might appreciate many other famous gurus, but, you know, I am not attracted that way because I have found the p...”

“However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.”

“I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”

“When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did not lose Heaven. Therefore, mankind's search is not for a religion or for Heaven but for...”

“If every company becomes a technology company, business models and transitions are going to occur. From a CEO's perspective, this is going to be the biggest technology transition of all time...”

“From a child, I knew I didn't have the face I wanted to have. My mother was a baroness. She was from Berlin; she was a silent movie actress and friends with Marlene Dietrich. So she knew all...”

“I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.”

“I remember working with a guy named Andrew Braccia at Yahoo, and Yahoo was the company that bought Flickr. Everyone on his team was hard working and reliable, did what they said they were go...”

“Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.”

“We may fight terrorism through brute force, but the terror that is unleashed in the name of religion can only be challenged through moral courage.”

“I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? F...”

“I'm a dark blonde, yes. I dyed my hair blue, then black, when I was 14. I thought the colour was more flattering and matched my skin tone. I don't think I'd ever change back unless it was fo...”

“Earth's crammed with heaven... But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.”

“I didn't emphasize my Jewishness because I wanted to. I just happen to have been raised in a family where everybody happened to talk like this, so why would I talk like somebody else?”

“My friend Markus Zusak wrote a story from the point of view of death, 'The Book Thief.' I thought that's a great idea, where your omniscient narrator is death. I'm glad he had that idea beca...”

“The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.”

“Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is...”

“I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the s...”

“It's amazing that I can inspire little kids to know that you can be short or tall, and your body type doesn't matter because you can do anything.”

“I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I wa...”

“There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.”

“In the past, I have been an immigration reformer, not a restrictionist.”

“Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyte Saga' was on. Now we all just have a long list of unwatched shows, all of which, it seems, o...”

“I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatso...”

“Whether running, biking, swimming, or dancing, I just like to always be on the move.”

“There are some loony people in this world!”

“It cannot be right in a world of increasing human progress - whether in medicine, space exploration or renewable energy - that so many people are denied the most basic human rights.”

“I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.”

“When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.”

“I guess I think like deep inside, I know that it's like, it's a different kind of performing, it's not really... You're not performing like a guitar player or a singer is performing, you kno...”