Every accepted public quote

“I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to...”

“I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.”

“It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth tak...”

“Love is the purest power in the universe.”

“With Akismet, there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective?”

“Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how faulty human memory can be.”

“We must nurture the lotus of knowledge, not play in the pond with it, and rip it apart like children. We must mature and discuss correctly what we mean by faith, by its definition and by its...”

“To give is one of the greatest gifts one could ever receive.”

“The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.”

“As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, 'All right, well, I'd like to headline a tour,' and then when...”

“I have always been interested in finding new ways to play and have looked at handball keepers and ice hockey goal-minders. It helps me.”

“I want to know how to feel good while I'm in the gym, because I'm mad while I'm on the treadmill. I've got that angry-lady face the entire time.”

“In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!”

“Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.”

“Since the publication of 'Evicted', I have had countless conversations with concerned families across America. Teachers in under-served communities have told me about high classroom turnover...”

“Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can - in other words, think of walking as alternative transp...”

“It's highly dishonorable to ever quit a production. I never have done it, and I can't imagine ever doing it. However, I have been in productions before where, on the first in the read-throug...”

“I feel comfortable in my skin, so it doesn't matter what I wear or how I look. Confidence is my best accessory.”

“I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as yo...”

“When life throws you a pit, plant a cherry tree.”

“When you consider that our technology has advanced from the first telephones to smart phones in roughly a century, it's easy to understand why it seems like tomorrow is arriving faster than...”

“A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.”

“If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life ca...”

“Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers o...”

“I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.”

“They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.”

“Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.”

“I had to keep reminding myself in 'Blue Valentine' that I was actually making a film.”

“If you want to make short-term profits from the stock price, then I am a very bad president. But I don't think I'm so bad for maximizing the long-term value of Nintendo.”

“Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!”

“I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.”

“But when I was a teenager, I was in my room learning how to play bass by listening to Rush and the Sex Pistols. I wasn't reading Karl Marx.”

“From an app point of view, if you looked at innovation on the PC, you'd be hard pressed to find companies innovating. The list is small.”

“I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.”

“Popular culture isn't a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between imag...”

“She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons....”

“I wasn't featured in NXT. I never had a TakeOver match. I never held a title. I wasn't a featured athlete. I knew, going in to SmackDown Live, I had to kick down the door and take every oppo...”

“I certainly don't follow fashion. I think fashion, as far as the industry and the whole world that surrounds it, is quite vile, and I'm repelled by it.”

“The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.”

“When I work with other people, I try to make up for their shortcomings with my strengths, and I let others make up for my flaws with their strengths. I try to co-operate with people around m...”

“Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.”

“There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los...”

“Labour is not a commodity, or a standard, or a means to an ulterior end, but an end in itself.”

“The Republican establishment may in fact be so desirous of getting rid of the Tea Party as its base, they may be willing to lose some elections in order to get rid of their base and put up a...”

“I still have that feeling the first time we met every time I see you.”

“I had been in a professional boys' choir, and as a boy soprano, you're aware that your voice has an expiration date.”

“Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.”

“O Lord, you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done, as you please. Give what you will, how much you will, and when you will.”