Every accepted public quote

“I was well into adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay. It took years of struggle and growth for me to recognize that it's just a fact of life, like hav...”

“I belong to the political party that generally fits my philosophical beliefs, but I reserve the right to vote my conscience after careful deliberation. My voting record reflects this.”

“An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turni...”

“I used to look at my team-mates like Lindsay Johnson and Rachel Brown, who were full-time teachers and trained in the night. I was like, 'I'm not going to do that.' I always believed I'd go...”

“I think at times I get treated a bit unfairly, but then so do other athletes in Australia, and I feel like things can change.”

“Growth makes management easier. In particular, it makes making labor concessions seem easy. It's when growth stops because you're being disrupted that managing becomes really, really hard, a...”

“I don't come from a space where I gush and praise - the world is doing enough of that.”

“One time, when I was about eight, these guys started throwing water balloons at me. That really did ruin my summer.”

“Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.”

“Minds ripen at very different ages.”

“It's a sobering thought: When Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.”

“The framers never intended an infinitely broad Commerce Clause that would let Congress dictate individuals' purchases.”

“The world assumes that we are very happy with high mansions, fine carriages, servants and attendants, huge investments, and concubines. But he who is without the honor and strength of the so...”

“All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.”

“A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.”

“Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.”

“Opening for certain acts after so many years of headlining obviously made us resentful. It was kind of hard watching all these bands, who I really believed didn't deserve to be on top musica...”

“Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.”

“The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.”

“The movies are something that I've been obsessed with, and I've subscribed to movie magazines all my life, since I was a child.”

“The Fed contributed to the financial crisis, keeping interest rates too low for too long. I give them credit for responding and stabilizing the economy and the financial sector during the cr...”

“You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.”

“The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.”

“The true test of character is ... how we behave when we don't know what to do.”

“Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.”

“But I'll never forget my trip to Las Vegas. I'm a huge rollercoaster fan and we did the one at the Stratosphere, which curls around the hotel, and there's one that dips out from the roof the...”

“Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.”

“We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends, but I don't remember ever being hungry.”

“The advent of so much dribbling has created a different kind of player, and it starts at a very early age. We have so many gifted ball handlers. Everything is pick-and-roll. Unless he's a ca...”

“Telco is totally committed to commercial vehicles, where it is bound to remain a major player. What may well happen in the future is we may split the company into two business units.”

“What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its se...”

“Usually we praise only to be praised.”

“Friends frequently ask how I, given my politics, dealt with seeing my brother and his companion, Richard, together for the first time. They are surprised when I tell them it wasn't as unsett...”

“A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.”

“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.”

“Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.”

“All Italians got a refrigerator in the garage. That's what we do.”

“All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet wha...”

“You are completely free to reject everything we have to say about spirituality. What we believe in is not that important. What really counts is what you believe that gives your life meaning,...”

“It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.”

“Never Give up! Where theres life theres hope!...”

“How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?”

“Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered...”

“Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.”

“I ended up performing one time at BET. I performed my record, like, four times, and the crowd was going super crazy. And Busta just happened to be there; he pulled me to the side and asked,...”

“Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils.”

“I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than th...”

“Education Helps To Understand Natural Laws And To Some Extent Spiritual Principles”