Every accepted public quote

“My dream was never to become this unattainable star.”

“If a man is secure enough to allow his partner to go out and express herself, and if he does not feel as ambitious as her, he can be a homemaker also. There is nothing wrong with it.”

“I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons and I got quite bored. My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one...”

“We have to know the truth about the past to discover out future.”

“I know when I've been playing a lot of golf it takes me a while to get back into cricket again. It's not so much the different shape of the swings, more the fact that you are stationary when...”

“I always order soup, dessert, and a sandwich or whatever main course. But then the idea is you have to eat such a small portion of it and bring the rest home.”

“'Merry Wives of Windsor' is a wonderful machine. It's one of the great farces, and it's astonishing to remember that this is written by the same man who wrote 'Hamlet,' 'The Taming of the Sh...”

“My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.”

“However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time...”

“For a while... to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don't want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before...”

“Live each day as if you were going to die that night.”

“It's the heavyweight division, man: there's a bunch of big guys, so anything can happen when they hit you. But I have plans, and feel I get better every fight.”

“My constituents include CU Buffs, ski bums, techies, artists, suburban soccer moms, and proud, hard-working Colorado families.”

“A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those con...”

“I love doing third albums. A group makes its first album, and then the record company rushes them into the studio to make their second album. After that, they go, 'Whoa, wait a second.' They...”

“Why is 'Game of Thrones' the most pirated show in the history of TV? Because people can't get it fast enough, that's why.”

“When you're all alone out there, on the end of the typewriter, with each new story a new appraisal by the world of whether you can still get it up or not, arrogance and self-esteem and deep...”

“The shameless criminality of Lenin, Stalin, and the Cheka cast a long shadow, but I don't see their kind returning anytime soon.”

“Dissatisfaction can be a source of inspiration if you learn to control it.”

“The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.”

“Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.”

“Japanese people can feel some attachment in what they are making, whether it is a car or a TV or a computer.”

“Happiness is appreciation in action.''- Dalia Qutob Fida & Dalia Qutob Quotes”

“When you first start out as an actor, you're just looking for a good part. As time goes on, if you're being held responsible for the movies themselves, you're looking for a good script all a...”

“It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.”

“For nearly three years, President Obama devoted a great deal of effort to finding compromises with Congressional Republicans. That was futile, in my view, since those Republicans had made it...”

“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”

“In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variation...”

“Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.”

“You feel the shame, humiliation, and anger at being just another victim of prejudice, and at the same time, there's the nagging worry that maybe... you're just no good.”

“A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.”

“Art is the signature of civilizations.”

“The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm - it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.”

“I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do.”

“The self-righteous supporters of mass immigration think the rest of us are stupid and evil.”

“There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water.”

“The economic dimension is very clear. I was at a dinner party, a mother got up, who's a very distinguished scientist, and said she had to get home and help her daughter with her homework. Th...”

“I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, do...”

“I think back to when I was in high school, to 17-year old Daria, who was dating guys and thought that that was the only way of life. I was very confused, and it was definitely manifesting it...”

“If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.”

“The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.”

“I was trying to maintain a facade of infallibility, which is exhausting. Like, I used to wear tons of makeup because I had bad skin. I couldn't go out in public without makeup on.”

“Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.”

“'Tis what I love determines how I love.”

“The Libertarian position on the freedom of speech is a strong support of freedom of speech, and we oppose government intervention in controlling what is or is not moral.”

“Growing up in the mid-to-late '90s in London, you start seeing the explosion of drum'n'bass and then the birth of U.K. garage and grime. I decided to focus a lot of my energies as an aspirin...”

“My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.”

“To me, Berlin is as much a conceit as a reality. Why? Because the city is forever in the process of becoming, never being, and so lives more powerfully in the imagination.”