Every accepted public quote

“The Yanukovych regime is a mafia, which regularly threatens, imprisons, murders, or disappears political opponents as well as those whose possessions it covets.”

“I'm not an artist: I'm a businesswoman. Well, maybe an artist/businesswoman.”

“Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.”

“If what needs to get done is going to get done, then I can't screw around with the luxury of writing rituals or waiting for pristine writing conditions to magically materialize.”

“It would be a mind-boggling endeavor to try to identify each individual who claims to have been a survivor of victimization during this period of 24 years.”

“In the 19th century, we didn't much like the loud annexationist voices south of the border or American support for Sinn Fein adventurers who thought, by seizing the Canadian colonies, they c...”

“The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior.”

“My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.”

“I don't intimidate anyone. Instead, I try to get people to believe in themselves.”

“I'm not really into the fame thing. I've met so many celebrities now, and everybody's just the same. I'm a bit of a family bird.”

“For too long, great food has really only been available in high-end restaurants and specialty food markets, but Chipotle is making the same gourmet quality food available and affordable so e...”

“Cleveland, Ohio, is the real deal.”

“I hoard and buy loads of the same things over and over - DVDs, clothes, trainers.”

“Every homeless puppy and kitten was born to parents who weren't spayed or neutered. I'm proud to support PETA's work to prevent animal homelessness.”

“I took a Ferrari under the 405 freeway. We took rent-a-cars through the desert. That was fun.”

“In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.”

“I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness......”

“No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeti...”

“My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?”

“I kinda grew up in different places. I was just from everywhere.”

“I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.”

“Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.”

“There have been reports of many child marriages taking place in the Malabar region in Kerala, especially among the Muslim community. However, under Muslim Personal Law, a girl can be married...”

“I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man f...”

“I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport,...”

“The child is father of the man.”

“My frankness has got me into a lot of trouble. I try to temper it down now. As you get older, you get wiser.”

“People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happene...”

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”

“Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program.”

“I'm not the healer.”

“I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.”

“People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice.”

“It's easy to play pretty well if you play hard. Things start working in your favor.”

“Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.”

“I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after.”

“I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.”

“My great grandfather from my father's side, Sir Akbar Hydari, was the prime minister of the Nizam of Hyderabad. He was instrumental in setting up the Osmania university. His wife set up the...”

“I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did 'Go,' so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increment...”

“When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the spirit of missionary work came into my life. I was about thirteen years o...”

“What people don't realize is the human body and the brain are so well designed to do - by millions of years of evolution - what we do.”

“A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.”

“I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.”

“America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.”

“Look at the American history of slavery. Can you say that hundreds of years later that has been eased? That pain has not yet been eased.”

“I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.”

“I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.”

“Any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance, however passionate.”