Every accepted public quote

“Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.”

“Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.”

“I was never the kind to throw parties for my birthday. I remember how embarrassed I used to be when they'd make me cut a cake on the sets, and the unit would sing 'Happy Birthday.'”

“Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.”

“It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region.”

“I love my life. I can't believe I work in New York and Paris. That I work for Louis Vuitton. That I work for Marc Jacobs. It seems really weird every time I say my full name - like, that's m...”

“The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.”

“As a student, I was a total jhalli who used to wear torn denims, faded kurtis, kohled eyes and thought that I was the coolest girl ever! We were a bunch of students who used to do social-iss...”

“Godliness is a great gain.”

“The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and s...”

“I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.”

“Luckily, I have a fast metabolism.”

“I express my deepest gratitude for this magnificent morning filled with singing blue birds, dancing red flowers, flying silvery-golden sky, falling flickering dew drops, and my infinitely ru...”

“I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.”

“Very few people know anybody like John McCain, someone who suffered and had his body, yet not his spirit, broken for six years as a POW and who has served his nation.”

“Finding light in the darkness can mean the difference between monotonous good and a glimpse of greatness.”

“Glass really rewards risk. A lot of times with glass, you're just waiting for the piece to cool down or for some temperature to adjust, and there's split seconds where you've got a fraction...”

“I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.”

“You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts t...”

“When my body is covered and disappears, it's not about the relationship between me and the wall, but the relationship between me as an individual and those slogans which are used to fool the...”

“It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.”

“The practice of shaving makes its first appearance in the Bible in connection with the story of Joseph, who as a young man was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt, where he was subseq...”

“A lot of people think the best work I've done was nonfiction - the 'Brothers and Keepers' book. But I think of myself as a fiction writer. And I think, if my work is put in perspective, all...”

“I believe the BJP should respect each and every political party, and the BJP should evaluate and consider each party's relevance in Indian politics and then formulate its own strategy.”

“We are living in the falsehood due to the erroneous teachings of the society, community and the bordered nations.”

“The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.”

“I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we'd like to be treated ourselves, we'd all be doing a lot better.”

“Stark inequality, poverty, and unemployment are driving increased social unrest and, consequently, social and economic risk. Environmental deterioration may well intensify social inequality.”

“I believe spiritualism is above everything, and I would choose it over name, fame, and money because spiritualism gives you power, and I love power.”

“Live for the lovers, not the haters!”

“Think of me as an impetuous Hegel, drunk with power, and also, regular drunk.”

“Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match.”

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

“I'm not a Bal Harbour Shops kind of guy.”

“It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.”

“I don't want a door bell. I don't want anyone ringing my door bell... seems to be intrusive. They can call me on their cell phones.”

“I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.”

“To the wizard death is merely a belief.”

“I like to think that I'm a family man first and a professional athlete second.”

“Violence is for mugs. War is for mugs.”

“By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.”

“The men who died at D-Day did not die shoulder-to-shoulder with their French comrades. They died to liberate the French from a sinister and brutal occupation.”

“Humans are about to grasp basic substances of all creations. When that moment comes, life or death are no longer matters.”

“I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.”

“I think a lot of the problem with foreign aid and things like that is you go in, give a bunch of stuff, and then it runs out. It's about helping them learn how to continue to be sustainable...”

“I feel like I'm doing something in Atlanta that nobody ever did as far as rap. If it happens to end up on the top 40 or the pop charts, it doesn't mean I meant to go pop. It's just where the...”

“Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try and avoid making eye contact with anyone. It was freaky, a...”

“Organisms are resilient patterns in a turbulent flow.”