Every accepted public quote

“Neoliberalism is hard to define. It could refer to intensified resource extraction, financialization, austerity, or something more ephemeral - a way of life - in which collective ideals of c...”

“I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.”

“I hate a bully, and I hate racists.”

“He said that the principal function of music was to organize the details into harmonies that were intended to make us forget that there was randomness all around us. The same, he said, could...”

“Contrary to what you might assume, I didn't start with any advantages and neither did most of the successful people I know. I am the grandson of immigrants who came to this country seeking b...”

“Words and a book and a belief that the world is words...”

“Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!”

“You can be angry that someone did not flush the toilet, or be glad that they have relieved themselves into it.”

“With COBE, we can see things before the lights came on. While we probably will not rewrite the book of cosmology with this mission, we will write another chapter.”

“In Barack Obama's second term, with his legislative agenda dead in a Republican-controlled Congress, the president turned to executive unilateralism on an innovative scale.”

“'Sing It Again Rod' touches all the solo bases since Stewart's departure from the Jeff Beck Band, wherein he cut his teeth on American audiences for $75 a week plus expenses, and wisely igno...”

“Each day is the scholar of yesterday.”

“I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.”

“When I hear things like 'unpatriotic,' I just chalk it up to a lot of political rhetoric.”

“To be part of something special, to be an Olympian and have the chance to win a medal - it's an amazing feeling.”

“I was used to football supporters hammering me and I thought my name was Graham Potter-Boo at one point.”

“You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these...”

“There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economist...”

“All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral; Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast, Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges...”

“What a friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry Everything to God in Prayer! Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We should n...”

“I love to sleep. I'm an excellent, excellent sleeper.”

“As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.”

“Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.”

“The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.”

“I was in China when Pokemon fever hit, and I got it bad. But as I got older, I didn't stay with it. My binder full of rares has since disappeared. I have refused to play the other games like...”

“Mushrooms have many helpful nutrients, including beta glucans for immune enhancement, ergothioneines for antioxidative potentiation, nerve growth stimulators for helping brain function, and...”

“Books are big enough and powerful enough to define and contain identity.--Aaron Lansky”

“One of the first media tours I did was with The Rock - no one knew who I was, as I had just come from WCW; they thought I was The Rock's bodyguard.”

“The arts are beyond price; they're beyond value. They're of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being.”

“The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one...”

“I feel like progress will be made in the landscape of Latino influence when we get to tell those murky, real, close-to-life narratives.”

“We have fulfilled all our agreements and all the conditions set by the IMF better than any other state.”

“You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my l...”

“My priority is my son and my husband, and I have a lot of spinning plates, so I try to make sure they're not one of them.”

“It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain yo...”

“I fight guys that no one has ever heard of; I fought guys who are legends, like Frankie Edgar.”

“I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.”

“Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd heard 'Silver Machine' but Russell Senior, who was in Pulp, got me int...”

“Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.”

“Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.”

“When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the t...”

“For dinner parties, I love making an easy cioppino using shrimp, mussels, clams, and a hearty fish that won't fall apart easily.”

“It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.”

“I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I en...”

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”

“Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional decanter is a rather pathetic tool to acc...”

“You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.”

“Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.”