Every accepted public quote

“It's a bit naff, but there is something exciting about pulling a bit of pottery out of the ground that's 2,000 years old.”

“She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.”

“I grew up playing bluegrass as a youngster, and I'm happy that I did.”

“I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.”

“I think I'm a little more mature than the average guy.”

“For me, true luxury can be caviar or a day with no meetings, no appointments and no schedule.”

“Suffering is one of life's great teachers.”

“Many intellectuals feel themselves to be Supermen who are spokesmen for the people. But in my opinion, they're to be pitied. Under Mao's dictatorship, these poor sheep suffered the same fate...”

“I quickly came to realize that in the Middle East, God is God, and in the West, the sponsor is God - or, as I like to say, Tide detergent is God.”

“The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.”

“Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.”

“Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.”

“I've been a big Bob Marley fan forever. Forever. Like big, huge. Bob Marley and the Beatles, that's my big, giant music influence. I can listen to them all the time.”

“I like L.A., but I'm definitely a Brooklyn girl; I'm a city girl. I need the cars honking. I need the bright lights. I need people yelling in the middle of the night screaming at each other....”

“From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part b...”

“If a man sees a woman with red lipstick, he admires her, but often he won't feel like kissing her.”

“After leaving 'Vice Magazine' a couple of years ago and working only part time on boring administration stuff, I made antagonizing the press almost my full time job.”

“I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple...”

“To avoid sounding like a cliche, I won't say I want to get proposed to in Paris, but Paris. I want it to happen somewhere public where people can be excited that I just got proposed to, and...”

“No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.”

“When you've lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how w...”

“Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed fr...”

“In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and cul...”

“I learned that when you do the best job that you can do, some people will idolize you, others won't care, and some will vilify you.”

“Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.”

“A career is born in public - talent in privacy.”

“In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.”

“We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a...”

“Food is ever-changing and ever moving forward and getting more and more complex.”

“Broadcasting through 9/11 together, like Katie Couric and I did, creates a bond.”

“Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.”

“The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.”

“We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.”

“Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.”

“In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy...”

“'Ick investing' means taking a special analytical interest in stocks that inspire a first reaction of 'ick.' I tend to become interested in stocks that by their very names or circumstances i...”

“I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.”

“Over the years, I've realized that I have as much in common with the performance artist, the standup comedian, the screenwriter, as I do with the theologian. I'm in an odd world where I make...”

“Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we c...”

“I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.”

“A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.”

“Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel da...”

“The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organizatio...”

“The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose.”

“Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.”

“When 'Jelly's' went out on tour, no one really wanted it. It was undersold. And I knew if I gave 'Noise' to someone else, they would sell it as 'Stomp' with little dancing black boys.”

“Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.”

“I have been obsessed with seamed stockings my whole life, and I would collect vintage ones that were made in the '40s and '50s with the authentic styling of the keyhole, the welt, the reinfo...”