Every accepted public quote

“#1487: Hug a cow.”

“I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous.”

“The Hale [telescope] is a refinery for light.”

“There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and...”

“I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.”

“What's comfortable to me is familiarity. Comfort has nothing to do with the size of the garment. I do find something quite comfortable and charming in a too-narrow shoulder, a sleeve that's...”

“People's intolerance, I find puzzling.”

“We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader econo...”

“I felt that no self-help book had been written for millennials yet, so my ultimate goal was to write it.”

“The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely amplified in hip-hop. I do think there is more t...”

“When you know my love, my love will warm you.”

“My proposal happens to be very mainstream.”

“Being able to communicate what your vision is clearly and with specificity is the most important thing a director can do.”

“Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.”

“I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast.”

“She embodied laughter and optimism and steadfast determination. Being with her felt like wind in his sails.”

“We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabu...”

“I don't see how English as we use it in Europe can be revivified. It's like Latin must have been in about A.D. 300, tired and used up. All one can do is press very hard stylistically to make...”

“As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.”

“I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.”

“Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.”

“Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads. And there are millions of teens who...”

“People came to my parents' parties because they were going to have fun and, if lucky, our mother would belly dance. What they didn't know was that the hostess made sure every morsel placed i...”

“I bought myself a DVD set of 'Lost' and only allowed myself to watch it while I was strength training. Sometimes I'd exercise longer than I intended to because I didn't want to turn it off....”

“It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not...”

“God blesses us all with different views and perspectives and levels of influence and power.”

“Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on.”

“I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. Thi...”

“A lot of times, people won't be 100 percent real with their story, and I wanted to give people the drawn-out experience of the perseverance and the struggle that it took to get here.”

“Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. I love your voice man, you give me chills... Brilliant.”

“When in a little corner on a tiny blue dot, deep under the ocean, in a very special spot... an itty bitty thing woke up anew and came alive. I tell you, it's true!”

“When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.”

“I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.”

“The internet is not for sissies.”

“You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci. Two reasons: First of all, I think he's a good actor, okay? To me, that counts. Second, he looks like a guy who can get things done. Joe Pesci doesn't fuck...”

“The journalists are so devoted to Obama. They are such sycophants that they're worried about access.”

“BUT, in terms of attractiveness, speaking in terms of physical aspects only I think that Argentinean, Italian, Mexican, and Spanish men are among the most attractive men.”

“The world is a fickle place, and it's not fair. But if you're getting most of your rewards from you, then you can use that as a kind of compass, and you can be secure in the fact that you're...”

“I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.”

“After leaving school, I got a job in a department store not dissimilar to Grace Bros in 'Are You Being Served?'”

“Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding bac...”

“London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.”

“I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.”

“My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didn't romanticize them. He was filling...”

“Women can learn from men and improve their 'chic.' A man wouldn't think of wearing a tight shoe or one that didn't harmonize with his suit.”

“A Canadian on the ground in different parts of the world, whether they're a diplomat, an aid worker, or a soldier, has an extraordinary, powerful impact.”

“The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.”

“My philosophy of life is very simple. I live to help others and help others to live.”