Every accepted public quote

“I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.”

“An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so w...”

“To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.”

“Nobody should pay for attaining an education because it can help us boost our cognitive and emotional intelligence which is extremely essential for our survival.”

“The one thing that TV is bad at doing is preaching. There are two extremes, you either turn the people into a punchline or turn them into hero, and both of those things suck, because most pe...”

“The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be to...”

“I tend to be really spacey, but I don't think it's because I'm unintelligent - it's just my imagination and a little bit of ADD.”

“The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears - I ap...”

“My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.”

“It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.”

“You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.”

“I look out there, and I see that Floyd Mayweather stands head and shoulders above everyone else. He's another fighter I would like to base myself on because he's got incredible fast hands an...”

“Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America's most ex of ex-presidents. You just can't believe that we elected this doofus. He was a bright enough guy and sort of well-meani...”

“What I really liked about Ceriz is that it is fun, glamorous, and very effortless.”

“I did retail. I worked at TJ Maxx before. I did fast food at Shake Shack.”

“If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all t...”

“Defeat your yesterday to Conquer Today.”

“If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!”

“We have to start grounding our policies in facts and recognize that a strong economy is critical for funding progressive priorities.”

“The only thing I think about is helping the team, respecting all my team-mates, not being selfish.”

“When 'Brain on Fire' premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2016, I fixated on inconsequential things like what dress I would wear and how much weight I wanted to lose. I lost my perspect...”

“If you look dull, the easiest thing to do is wash your face with water, and immediately you look refreshed.”

“I am an athlete first and foremost, and it is vital for my competitiveness, my well being, and for my preparations for events during the European summer that I measure my performance against...”

“The more you forgive, the more you let go, the more liberated you will become.”

“It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.”

“Effective fund-raising is based on relationships.”

“Global climate change has become entangled with the problem of invasive species. A warmer climate could allow some invaders to spread farther, while causing native organisms to go extinct in...”

“Nothing dies in Hell.”

“My father is a very skilled carpenter. He can do just about anything with his hands. He is very artistic with his carpentry.”

“I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.”

“If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central Af...”

“I don't always enjoy them, but when a scary movie has a really good storyline, that gets me interested.”

“Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.”

“I like Flea, I like him as a musician.”

“I realise that certain actors project their own image onto the screen - those who are the same on as they are off. But I've never had the necessary statistics to be able to do that sort of t...”

“There is always something new out of Africa.”

“I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.”

“You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.”

“A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.”

“Despite our differences of opinion, I just want to say that I respect, appreciate, and love you.”

“Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the par...”

“Beyonce is incredibly talented - gifted, in fact. She has an exceptional set of pipes and can actually sing. She is a terrific dancer - without the explicit moves best left for the privacy o...”

“A war between Europeans is a civil war.”

“There are no perfect politicians - just as there are no perfect pastors or voters. We are all sinners in need of a Savior.”

“There are those of us who learn to live completely in the moment. For such people the Past vanishes and the future loses meaning. There is only the Present, which means that two of the three...”

“The only time I don't work is when I am asleep.”

“You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.”

“There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in...”