Every accepted public quote

“Adversity introduces a man to himself.”

“Every day I'm getting shaped and molded. Keepin' on, being a better artist, and improving on this, improving on that. The more I'm in it, the more I'm practicing and the more I'm advancing.”

“I always start from the stand that it is imperialism that needs us, not we who need the imperialists.”

“Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.”

“'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.”

“I belong to a family where I think we're all fairly treated, boys or girls. Although I have to work doubly hard just to be able to be recognised. That meant long hours, but the hard work pai...”

“I think it was, my parents got me a karaoke machine when I was about 9 years old. Even before that, they got me a tape recorder that I used to walk around my life with. And there was somethi...”

“Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of...”

“There's a difference between fair game and playing games.”

“If you look at the history of Manchester United, they are always a big side, so there is no time of underestimating them.”

“He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.”

“The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.”

“When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.”

“People are not being reached in the context of the body of Christ--they're like newborn babies being left on a doorstep somewhere to feed and care for themselves.”

“My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.”

“This is where the world is going: direct access from anywhere to any type of data, whether it's a small piece of data or a small answer but a long algorithm to create that answer. The user d...”

“They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet...”

“I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them...”

“Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.”

“In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abi-deth in the hard bone.”

“I'm lucky to not have a real job, to be able to express myself, be creative and be relevant.”

“I was this very self-conscious, shy person once I hit my teens.”

“I hope people from the social work profession do not encourage labelling.”

“Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too l...”

“The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionmen...”

“Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety.”

“When I came up with Ethereum, my first first thought was, 'Okay, this thing is too good to be true.' As it turned out, the core Ethereum idea was good - fundamentally, completely sound.”

“I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment,...”

“When building in a place that already has a dominant style, it's important to behave yourself. Look around; refer to what you see. In the mountains above Salzburg, I saw charming chalets and...”

“I'm a weirdo and an only child. That comes together to create one-woman shows.”

“Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.”

“I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell.”

“I think there's real value in having a founder CEO. Obviously, I'm biased, but I'm driven by a purpose and a mission and a vision, not just profits.”

“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.”

“I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.”

“It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.”

“'Shotgun Stories' and 'Take Shelter'... I was willing to make those with no money and no time. With 'Mud,' I just wanted to protect it until I could have the resources. It's a real tricky mo...”

“China will always remain the builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and upholder of international order.”

“If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.”

“'This will pass and it always does.' I consistently have to keep telling myself that because being an entrepreneur means that you go to those dark places a lot, and sometimes they're real. Y...”

“I've had calf problems for many years, and it has been very difficult for me because I've played out of position, which means more sprints. Ten minutes into the game, I've not been able to f...”

“Two-parent sex appeared on the scene about 500,000,000 years ago.”

“People think of education as something they can finish.”

“We're all in this together - by ourselves.”

“Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.”

“After Nigeria, we are the second biggest black African nation. We are the headquarters of the African Union. We are the only African country that has never been colonized. This is perhaps th...”

“Wanita cerdas bisa menghadapi cecunguk mana pun dengan anggun.”

“I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.”