Every accepted public quote

“I have a unique workout schedule. I concentrate on balancing with my core and my legs. Then, like any other surfer, I try to read the ocean. It's always changing and moving - doing its own t...”

“In a serious relationship, I will definitely write music about a guy. I'm totally into mix tapes and I'm all about small little things. I'll drop by their door and just leave a gift or come...”

“One thing I've done in my life is train year-round to compete at anything, anything. I've got an invitation now to maybe be on the karate team for the Barcelona Olympics. I'm debating whethe...”

“It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in.”

“If the House Republicans want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, they should make their case to the American people and elect a president and a majority in both Houses of Congress prepared t...”

“I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.”

“There is unfortunately a world that still exists that dismisses fashion as being a little bit frivolous and the people who work in it are not so smart.”

“I want to just do my job and have a big impact on the organization, and hopefully be in the Hall of Fame one day.”

“No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are...”

“I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disregarded. There's an awful lot of frailty and doubt about it, which I understand and share, but th...”

“I live for the Red Sox. I thoroughly enjoy them. For whatever reason, baseball has been a lot more fun for me in recent years. I loosely follow the Patriots and I root for them. I loosely fo...”

“Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.”

“Our troops shouldn't be mired in taking land for the Afghan military, providing force protection and fighting a permanent insurgency.”

“I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.”

“Honestly, soaps are great training. You're doing 90-plus pages a day. It was my acting class, where I built my foundation for showing up and being professional.”

“I like to look effortlessly beautiful.”

“As soon as I got out of law school, I went to inner city Newark, New Jersey, to become a housing rights lawyer, because people fought for my housing rights, I was going to pay it forward by...”

“What part of people is resistant to an artist doing more than one thing? Is it somehow perceived as greedy? Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volitio...”

“I started off playing my own songs, just because I saw it as a means to an end almost of, 'Right, if you want to play gigs, you have to write your own songs.' I mean, they were absolutely te...”

“I am looking for projects that challenge me, make me uncomfortable, and also projects that are in the hands of the right team. Then it's up to me to take a leap of faith.”

“Industrialised countries must take the responsibility of helping poorer countries in the climate change action plan.”

“When you write something you know, you're making a story that will work, whether or not there's bits taken. It's always funny to me when people say, 'Well, it's clearly autobiographical,' an...”

“You are mighty beyond measure. You're already every bit of the woman you hoped to be. Inside of you lies every ounce of potentiality required to bring the highest intentions for your life in...”

“I don't do Jewish stuff because I don't want people to be left out. If I mention the Torah in Alabama, it's not going to go down that well. I used to do some Jewish jokes because when I star...”

“Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.”

“There's no disputing that for pols, the Internet is a great way to connect with people and raise some cash and post 'Sopranos' parodies or play your opponent's macaca moments. But in a 'net...”

“Come to every conversation with three prepared stories to tell. Sometimes others do not want to talk, and by having some talking points in mind, you will always have the conversation flowing...”

“To me, a public servant should have both the grounding and the compassion to carry the common sense and good will of his or her neighbors into the political arena.”

“I'd rather be the protector than the protected. I'm naturally the protector - being a mother and having a famous family. You have to navigate when it's right to protect.”

“If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.”

“Until you realize your helplessness, can you seek for help.”

“The truth is the truth. Denying it doesn't make it go away.”

“I have this lust for the so-called South Seas. I would like to explore every corner of the Pacific. You know the song: 'To everything turn, turn, turn, there is a season.' It's just time.”

“Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women just for the sake of it - I looked for the best possible candidate,...”

“A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed...”

“I am built funny. Picture Mark Twain's head on Ichabod Crane's body. Now hold your mental picture to the light and crumple it.”

“I do heavy weight deadlift squats, shoulder presses, push-ups, and I can pull up my own body weight. And I do an ab workout just about every night. It's 200 reps of five different exercises...”

“I have so many things that I want to do with my life. I just don't see myself being a fighter forever. Boxing is my love and passion. It also opens up and sets up other things in my life as...”

“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a happy bunch of chuckleheads.”

“Your life isn't behind you; your memories are behind you. Your life is ALWAYS ahead of you. Today is a new day - seize it!”

“A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.”

“It's not easy to be my sons because we're very high profile. We try so hard to give them a normal life. I'm very, very tight with them about money. I don't give that money until they ask, 'I...”

“People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I'm much more relaxed than that.”

“What kind of grandmother am I? I'm a 'three-dessert' grandmother. I'm a 'let's just skip the bath tonight, honey, watch another video' grandmother.”

“I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.”

“He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.”

“Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never kno...”

“One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.”