Every accepted public quote

“I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch and the lemonade and the farm.”

“I do read a lot of autobiographies and biographies but from people who are not in my field - older women, older artists, Miles Davis.”

“It's such a difficult thing for women, especially, to admit when we're not coping, because we're supposed to be all right with all the different roles we're born with and are piled on us lat...”

“Chemistry is one of those things: it's hard to nail down what it is or how you get it.”

“The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.”

“People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying to raise money at the low end and find that they can't...”

“I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at...”

“I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.”

“Jeezy like a big brother.”

“Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.”

“All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.”

“Sweetheart,' 'darling,' 'luv.' I like these words; they fit me like a comfortable old pullover. I remember them from childhood; that's what innocent little boys were called by cheerful aunti...”

“There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.”

“You can have fun and do well. Just let loose a bit.”

“In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.”

“The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.”

“One of my all-time favorite pranks was gaining unauthorized access to the telephone switch and changing the class of service of a fellow phone phreak. When he'd attempt to make a call from h...”

“All the way on the West Coast, never having seen a Broadway show, it was like, 'They don't want me. There's nothing there for me.' I'd come to New York a lot and never even tried to see a Br...”

“The past may or may not be a foreign country. It may morph or lie still, but its capital is always Regret, and what flushes through it is the grand canal of unfledged desires that feed into...”

“Whereas Superman is a godlike guy from another planet and Batman is this mysterious, unknowable billionaire, everyone in 'Spider-Man' is human and flawed.”

“So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.”

“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”

“I remember watching 'Quantum Leap' when I was a kid with my family, so I think that's fun and nostalgic.”

“Every spoken word arouses our self-will.”

“The Left has pushed immorality to the point we have so-called 'same-sex marriage' and 'transgender' nonsense trampling the rights of Christians.”

“I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.”

“One of my weaknesses is impatience. I just have this aching need to get great things done. Can't stand slow change.”

“At the moment, I'm enjoying John Grisham quite a bit.”

“I think we do need to try to not just rely on the central bank to, in its wisdom, adjust interest rates, but allow for people to avoid being exposed to inflation risk.”

“Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”

“And givin' yourself to me can never be wrong”

“I'm not a bad driver. And I never will be because I took lessons when I was quite a boy. I never had to pass a test because there wasn't such a thing when I first started driving a motor car...”

“I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.”

“If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.”

“The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.”

“Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.”

“After all, a town without a bookshop was a town without a heart.”

“I can pinpoint the exact moment when I first began to think about what profession I should go into. It was 1978. I was seven and had just been handed over by the women of my family to the ea...”

“When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.”

“People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.”

“There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me the...”

“My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?”

“You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead.”

“I shall not quarrel with another man's road to salvation if he will allow me to wander along mine.”

“I've always been a fan of instructional videos. The bass-player ones are insane. The music on them is fascinating. It's not something you hear on CDs or would really ever play in bands. You...”

“The part in 'Taxi' was originally written for a guy named Phil Ryan, so they made it Phil Banta, and then they made it Tony Banta, which sounded a lot better anyway.”

“Maybe some day they'll find me behind the computer, just bones and cobwebs.”

“Lagos is a fascinatingly infuriating place that its residents love - and love to hate. Licence plates on cars here proudly display the state motto, 'Centre of Excellence,' in what often seem...”