Every accepted public quote

“The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.”

“I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective.”

“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”

“I'm for a balanced budget now.”

“I think it's nice to have children. I didn't have many, and while I don't sit around regretting it, I maybe would have liked a couple more. But it wasn't meant to be, and I didn't want it ba...”

“I was injured at the end of 'Kill Bill.' I hit the ground, instead of hitting the mat, pretty hard and busted my ribs and had to have surgery. I was being blown out of a trailer in a harness...”

“And yet it is within the powers of a boring book to bore even the mind of God, as God well knows.”

“Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.”

“A part of me is always envious of people who live in the present and are sustained by a sense of spontaneity. Even dogs have that capacity: they're always wanting to participate in something...”

“If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.”

“I think there's a lot of catastrophe in this world and a lot of cruelty and a lot of carelessness.”

“I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country.”

“What causes us to like new acquaintances is not so much weariness of our old ones, or the pleasure of change, as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well, and...”

“Comedy has allowed me to be my 100-percent-true self, as opposed to other places, where I feel like that's been a hindrance. Whether it's music or poetry or hosting, people want you to be so...”

“Everywhere you go you hear things that are untrue. You've just got to learn that if I don't say it, physically out of my mouth, on camera, it's not true.”

“Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.”

“The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.”

“I love when an artist can stand by themselves and play their guitar and hold a crowd, but I also love bells and whistles.”

“I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.”

“The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the same as God Himself, and which is the aim and purpose...”

“I was inspired by Solange's album, 'A Seat At The Table,' from the moment that I heard it. She has clearly taken the time to create a unique body of work and emote through her music from a t...”

“Sometimes I feel that I'm not just aging . . . I'm decomposing.”

“Love can be spread from within you to outside, not from outside to within you”

“Those who dont matter, dont matter. Those who matter respects you and those who respect you are all that matters.”

“One cannot say they have seen or know of God if they have not seen the grandest elements of The Cosmos with their own eyes.”

“I'm able to shift gears from mom to performer to mom pretty quickly.”

“I remember, as a young Catholic girl in high school, seeing 'The Exorcist,' and it scared the wits out of me.”

“Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.”

“Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.”

“Spirit guides may be souls who you had shared past lives with and with whom you had had good experiences. They may also be angels, archangels, ascended masters or other senior beings whose r...”

“The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and...”

“He loved her. Jay Heaton, her best friend since childhood was in love with her. He didn't say it but she knew that it was true. And the part that really freaked her out, the part that caught...”

“I've been in the States and fought before. When I'm in that changing room, I'll feel as if I've been in that situation before. Obviously I'm going to have to deal on the biggest stage, and i...”

“Stories serve multiple purposes. At a basic level they are great entertainment, which is essential for living a happy and healthy life, but on a deeper level stories help us explore issues t...”

“Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello...”

“All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred in...”

“And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was...”

“It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.”

“People are used to juggling multiple jobs and multiple responsibilities and multiple things on the home front, and sometimes you get a day off to read, and you just want a book that feels co...”

“He who curbs his desires will always be rich enough.”

“I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with. But we will have progress despite the deficits.”

“To my irritation, you still can't flick through an ebook properly; you can't riffle the pages, you can't look at more than one page at once.”

“I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.”

“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”

“We know cancer is caused ultimately via a link between the environment and genes. There are genes inside cells that tell cells to grow and the same genes tell cells to stop growing. When you...”

“As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.”

“Why do you fight your life?”

“Do Something different or Samething differently.”