Every accepted public quote

“No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.”

“Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.”

“That's not to say Eddie's never done anything malicious. But he never grabbed power for power's sake. His position was gained only because he has that energy, and that's naturally where he e...”

“I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neu...”

“One arm might handicap me a little in competition, but I just work with what changes I know I have to make, and I'm pretty used to it now. It mainly depends on the wave conditions... I only...”

“What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.”

“We look at the African-American community, for a long time those of us who be considered strong - black men - for whatever reason, haven't done a good job of taking care of the weak. And we...”

“The media tends to portray the teenage world as one where drinking and sex is taken for granted. In fact, I think most teenagers don't drink, are unsure of themselves, and feel awkward aroun...”

“I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than...”

“As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing...”

“Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism.”

“Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have just one chance of escaping a verdict of complete triviality...”

“Commemorations can stimulate debate, which will ultimately lead to a greater understanding of the events of our 'through-other' history and to shape a better future.”

“The average citizen in this county has more intelligence and sense in his little finger than the editor of 'The New York Times' has in his whole head.”

“I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?”

“The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.”

“The vote is precious. It's almost sacred, so go out and vote like you never voted before.”

“The hardest-hit taxpayers in our disgraceful tax system are those folks who pack Trump's rallies, especially in hard-hit Rust Belt states like Ohio and Michigan.”

“Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.”

“World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.”

“That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.”

“I know more about wheat and olive trees than I do about politics.”

“In the fact that 'Vogue' is someone that can help guide enormous audiences through this fascinating world, I would like to think we are as influential and actually are now reaching so many m...”

“Being the lowest one on the totem pole is sometimes the fun part to play.”

“One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lo...”

“I wanted to use my story of starting Netflix - the whole thing, warts and all - to show how a dream could make it from the inside of one's head out into the real world.”

“I watch mostly independent films.”

“I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my people on the African continent, especially in the Democratic Repu...”

“It's a really diverse time in music, with all these different DJs and all these different categories, and we are all taking footnotes from everyone else. There are no real genre boundaries a...”

“Considering the fact that I have been in the spotlight more or less since I was 18, there is an aspect of normality to my public profile, which I have grown to live with. As much as I would...”

“Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.”

“Post-divorce, the world can feel harsh and full of jagged edges.”

“I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my her...”

“It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.”

“Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.”

“You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written t...”

“Growing up, I've always felt I was from two different worlds. I was born in the U.S., but my parents were born in Vietnam, and they raised my sisters and I with the parenting methods of the...”

“Vegas is a very fickle market that's about fun. It will change to what people want.”

“We need young Frenchmen who want to become billionaires.”

“I have very poor eyesight, and I can't imagine a world without my glasses or contacts.”

“If women choose guerilla style filmmaking or new media productions, etc., all power to them. But if they're there because 'Big Hollywood' won't let them in, then we're moving further and fur...”

“The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.”

“You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.”

“Think about being a teenager and feeling like school is just about taking tests you may or may not be interested in, after which someone will judge whether or not you're smart. No one's goin...”

“The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.”

“Elected officials have always been held to a higher standard, as we should be.”

“I like camouflage a lot.”

“I just try not to label myself in any way. I just have an allergy to labels in general. I can tell you that I am surrounded by very strong women and that I really appreciate that, but I'd ra...”