Every accepted public quote

“I think it just takes one little snowflake to start a snowball to go down the hill. My contribution and, say, Kendrick Lamar's and some chosen others' start the snowball. That's all I can ho...”

“We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?”

“For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.”

“I did not come into Parliament to be a Muslim MP. And I have never set myself up as a Muslim spokesperson or community leader. Just as ordinary citizens have multiple identities, so do MPs.”

“I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities.”

“Vancouver is more laid-back, pretty much what you would expect from a West Coast city. Miami is definitely livelier - the nightlife, the people, everything. It's basically a little slice of...”

“Some directors don't get involved in the cinematography and are just about story, but I'm definitely more tactile than that in terms of my involvement in the minutiae.”

“Ric Flair, The Freebirds, and The Rockers were great influences in my decision to become a wrestler.”

“This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries.”

“A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.”

“One of the common responses to criticism of psychics is to suggest that even if their powers are illusory, there is no harm done. After all, the audience seem to enjoy the show and Sally and...”

“At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.”

“Exuberance is better than taste.”

“Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better.”

“There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.”

“During the Gezi protests and PKK terror campaigns, the unity and solidarity of the Turkish nation were attacked.”

“My family always ate dinner at the table, and we would chat about our day while eating. My parents like to have a few glasses of wine and linger after the meal is over, peeling oranges for d...”

“It has taken centuries to create the freest, fairest, most prosperous societies in the world, and there have been lots of studies about this.”

“Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.”

“For Tim Burton's birthday I gave him a rainbow beetle. He loved it!”

“Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myt...”

“What's going to happen is that there will be a definite consensus that Europe is not working. The diagnosis will be to shed the currency and keep the rest, or that Europe is not working and...”

“Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek...”

“What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to wo...”

“What is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with envy, a man seeks to obtain pardon for excellences and merits from those who have none.”

“In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things.”

“I've always tried to control everything and every aspect of my life, and this is maybe the biggest lesson I've learnt with motherhood - you just can't control everything, and I'm much more r...”

“Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwi...”

“When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.”

“I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But,...”

“Before you start a goal - let's take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you're suffering.”

“How genuine is my capacity for love if there is no one for me to love, to laugh with, to treat tenderly, to be trusted by?”

“Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker of spiritual well-being. My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing f...”

“What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.”

“Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.”

“I would like to believe that I still am a shy person; I am very introverted. I have a problem communicating.”

“I started out as a duo with Mis-Teeq's Sabrina Washington, and we worked for four or five years before signing a record deal. I had no money, and I was taking part-time jobs just to earn the...”

“White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations...”

“The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of...”

“I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.”

“I don't think I can fully explain what happens when you take on the role of quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. Sometimes, I can't even explain it to myself.”

“I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literall...”

“I think the most rewarding thing is going over and being deployed and having done meaningful things.”

“Anyone can do anything if they put their mind to it and take action”

“It's hard to get someone to sit down and listen to an album in its entirety.”

“Fame freaks me out. Do you just wake up different? I don't know how to scale it back if it gets too crazy.”

“There has always been a need for me to create with word combinations belonging only to me.”

“Time is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.”