Every accepted public quote

“The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.”

“It's disingenuous to... pretend the sources of our money don't impact the policy we write - you just can't serve two masters.”

“I'm much better off the tee. I'm not a great putter. I do not have a good short game.”

“In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'”

“There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.”

“Please do not ever think I am without you or you are without me, I live with you all the time.”

“At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school ac...”

“'Footloose' is a fun movie. If you do it right, people should leave wanting to dance.”

“I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it's probably good...”

“In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day in, day out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them...”

“Self-made men often worship their creator.”

“No one else but you holds the key to your success; it is your persistence and purpose-oriented action.”

“I make no pretence at being well-versed in politics - it is all too often about personalities and emotion - but I do know a thing or two about our constitution, as I once trained to be a law...”

“I defy you to find any real will, any reasoning force, outside of life. And everything is there; there is, in the world, no other will than this force which impels everything to life, a life...”

“From the core, I'm a shy person, but when I'm on stage, I know how to put it aside. Of course, I'm not perfect, but I've definitely grown as far as being comfortable on stage.”

“It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.”

“I work in politics and media, two industries that have been particularly affected by the issue of misconduct. We have seen famous and powerful men finally pay a price for behavior they got a...”

“Maybe we should shut Wall Street down for 24 hours, see how everybody who blames Wall Street for everything likes that. Maybe we should shut energy down for 24 hours, see how people like tha...”

“These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my ch...”

“Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.”

“I'm a big fan of Bio Oil. You can get it at CVS. I just mix it in with my moisturizer - I use a lot - and I think it helps keep my skin hydrated in the middle of the winter.”

“I used to get tired of drinking iced tea, so I'd ask my wife if we had some lemonade, and I would just dump it right in there.”

“Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chu...”

“Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.”

“We tell girls to be themselves, but then they have role models - sometimes too many role models - in popular culture who incarnate that kind of disconnectedness from oneself. We are taught t...”

“You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you.”

“A football team is really just a reflection of society. You've got 118, 120 guys on the team, you got a little bit of everything.”

“For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, I don't have anything left.' But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 4...”

“When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.”

“Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal vis...”

“If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men.”

“When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.”

“You do not walk into any hearing or committee meeting and reveal confidential communications with the president of the United States, who's entitled to receive confidential communications in...”

“When I went to prep school in New York City, I had to ride the subway and learned how to do homework on the train. I can work and read through anything.”

“Being a mom, it's up and down; it's a little bit of a rollercoaster.”

“I don't like vampires personally. I don't know any.”

“When I got to Broadway, I conducted five Broadway shows.”

“If you aren't talking to your kids about socialism, someone else is. So use car time, dinner time, tax preparation time, and time spent together at your work or small business to teach your...”

“Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it wouldn't do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us...”

“Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.”

“Of all the four major sports, whether you like Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, maybe you like Bobby Orr, or you like Larry Bird or Tom Brady - Bill Russell is the greatest athlete to play in...”

“I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.”

“First, Whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed.”

“I wrote 'The Searcher' because I love westerns, and they've fallen out of fashion.”

“There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.”

“After all these years of saying the same thing about the Alvin Ailey company - terrific dancers, awful repertory - I'm finally accepting the inevitable: I'm not going to change my mind, and...”

“I always want to abandon myself to my characters, and I never knew if I was actually abandoning myself to Lady Macbeth. I was scared to enter the darkness. Almost every day, I would go back...”

“Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayo...”