Every accepted public quote

“And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural.”

“The player I look up to is Rio Ferdinand. I have always played at the back, and I've always tried to base my game on his.”

“But if, on the other hand, we should be justified in rejecting it, if there testified on oath, then, supposing our rules of evidence to be sound, we may be excused if we hesitate elsewhere t...”

“A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this...”

“I think that people should do what their heart and soul tells them to do.”

“Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.”

“I never promise anything. I don't promise anything to my mum. I don't promise anything to the supporters.”

“Politics is show business for ugly people.”

“I love the English spirit because when I was a player, I was an Englishman: I was fighting, and you had to kill me if you wanted to win.”

“The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.”

“All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.”

“It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can't provide for their famil...”

“The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got into the Fleming books after watching 'A View To A Kill' a few years later.”

“It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission and the office worker who processes medical insurance claims to work with pride and efficien...”

“Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.”

“When people feel vulnerable, they make slapstick decisions.”

“When 'The Thin Blue Line' came out, I was criticized by many people for using reenactments, as if I wasn't dedicated to the truth because I filmed these scenes. That always and still seems t...”

“I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser.”

“I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a...”

“I always steal a pair of socks on every photo shoot I do. It's my thing.”

“The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.”

“Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.”

“I am trying to give the best performance possible in 400 pages. I want readers to be scared; I want them to be moved. Entertainment doesn't necessarily mean something trivial, but it does me...”

“For the conservatives, Lula is seen as someone who constantly seeks demarcation and even rupture. For the Left, however, Lula is always seen as someone who conciliates, as he acknowledges th...”

“Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.”

“You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.”

“I'm a character actress, and my particular brand is more mature, so I had to wait until my age caught up with the tricks in my little arsenal.”

“Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body...”

“Low turnout in off-year races is always a challenge for Democrats. Many of our voters require information and must be contacted way ahead of Election Day - and reminded of what's at stake.”

“Movies would be like a broad painted canvas... or a mystical process which cannot really be explained, like, 'What is electricity?' Along with the images that go on the screen, there's a cor...”

“Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.”

“I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.”

“Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.”

“I think you have to look at these cold cases. If they're done properly, if the homicides are done properly, and everything's documented properly, you have a lot of concrete statements from t...”

“I've lost count of the number of times that I've been approached by strangers wanting to tell me that they think I'm brave or inspirational, and this was long before my work had any kind of...”

“I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.”

“Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.”

“The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.”

“I can't hurt any more than I've been hurt, I can't cry any more than I've cried. I've been to the highest of highs and lowest of lows, so one day I'm going to find my middle ground and be ha...”

“The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this...”

“The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.”

“My books are mine, and yet they are alien to me--as a child belongs to a parent and yet has a life of its own. I can guide and hope and nudge my characters this and that way, but in the end,...”

“I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.”

“Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”

“Things only have the value and importance we give them. Work, success, accomplishments mean nothing to me, though they may mean the world to someone else.”

“Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why.”

“Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.”

“I need to see my own beauty and to continue to be reminded that I am enough, that I am worthy of love without effort, that I am beautiful, that the texture of my hair and that the shape of m...”