Every accepted public quote

“My low point was after being reorganized out of running Merrill Lynch. That dismissal deeply contradicted my sense of fairness, since, at the time, my team and I had done what we were brough...”

“I loved Motown. I loved the musicality and the sound.”

“All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.”

“We all should be proud of the United States. For those of us that came from the Dominican, we've been able to come here, work, make money and become somebody in our lives. We've gotten a hug...”

“The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.”

“To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.”

“I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.”

“I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.”

“I fell in love with Dungeons & Dragons, and the storytelling of it, and the weird dice, and the fact that it didn't use a traditional board. It felt like I was a part of something special an...”

“What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.”

“The existence of symmetry laws is in full accordance with our daily experience. The simplest of these symmetries, the isotropy and homogeneity of space, are concepts that date back to the ea...”

“One must not mix up prudence with gestures of servility.”

“Being humble is one of the most important things, and not being afraid to put yourself out there is important. I think really successful chefs put themselves out there on a daily basis.”

“My mother told me that truth is like my skin, a beautiful, protective covering, and the things that people say or do can be easily changed or discarded. She told me truth comes from the hear...”

“I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the te...”

“The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.”

“Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.”

“People don't want to always see a comedy or an action film. If the film in a particular genre is made well, then it will see its share of success.”

“Was Castro sincere when, during his guerrilla war, he swore that he was not a Communist? If so, when did he change, and why? Looking back, does he believe he might have chosen a better cours...”

“I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for amazing things.”

“In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.”

“My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitche...”

“Given six months to live and being the fighter that I am, I set high goals for myself.”

“Choose love over hate, joy over sorrow, courage over fear, and hope over despair.”

“I found that this Parkinson's does slow you down, whether you want to slow down or not.”

“The main effect of the Internet on language has been to increase the expressive richness of language, providing the language with a new set of communicative dimensions that haven't existed i...”

“My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.”

“Like, if you look at Heidi Montag, who got 10 surgeries she didn't need, I think that's unfortunate. I've always been voluptuous with a big butt, but didn't have boobs, so I wanted my body b...”

“It is a really bizarre feeling to perform for, like, five people. You get so much energy from an audience, and when it's just five quiet people at a table, that's not the same.”

“At first glance, Martha Stewart, queen of artfully distressed home furnishings, might not seem to have much in common with Michael R. Milken, one-time king of junk bonds.”

“God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice.”

“I was 5 years old when I did my first catwalk and did commercials at 16. I went professional after my studies.”

“What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.”

“Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular.”

“We have to be as militant defending America as the enemies of America are in trying to destroy America.”

“Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.”

“I'm honest enough to say I don't know everything. You know, I don't. I don't understand all of God. I don't understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.”

“I realize there's a line between looking good and being an embarrassment. I don't want to be one of those dames who is trying too hard to appear young. I'm Mamie Van Doren, and I fully inten...”

“People who use their religion as a framework to kill people, simply , are not nice people. Yes, that's quite a stand I'm making, but the idea that people are systematically executed because...”

“People have been playing versions of 'World of Warcraft' since 1994, and it's still the world's leading subscription-based MMO.”

“If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.”

“Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.”

“The MLK Shabbat Suppers focused on the theme of educational inequity, which Dr. King considered inextricably linked to the struggle for equality and justice.”

“If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When Father Painted the Parlour'? Leave me o...”

“Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.”

“The situation improved once it occurred to them that they should also talk; as they came to understand each other they learned that what they'd been afraid of was running out of self. On the...”

“If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.”

“Time is the source of all resources.”