Every accepted public quote

“Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.”

“Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.”

“In China, where you can be arrested and imprisoned for your faith, getting together with other Christians is a lifeline and you'll risk anything for the privilege. No one attends church in C...”

“On April 1, 1998, I launched Webmaster-Resources.com, and I remember that date specifically because it was the date that the price of a two-year domain name registration dropped from $100 to...”

“Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and h...”

“The 3Cs of Leadership; Character; the compassionate morality to protect others rights, Charisma; an inspiring personality which gives hope, and Competency; with unquenchable thirst for knowl...”

“I love spoiling a party. I love it when someone is on a roll and just messin' that up.”

“Six years of your life is a long time to do anything, and especially in this business, where you get so used to being nomadic and moving on to different jobs.”

“If you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wanting people to talk about you and wanting everyone to know who you are. But that also means th...”

“Let me tell you something - compared to a TV-drama production schedule, touring is not strenuous.”

“I don't know if I would describe myself as a little goth. But the all black is very New York.”

“I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.”

“Whenever I meet people who seem really sweet and unassuming, I kind of wonder about them.”

“My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb.”

“Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.”

“I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.”

“Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where...”

“I literally started from zero; I had zero subscribers. I remember my first subscriber - I was so excited, and then I looked, and it was my dad.”

“I am concerned only with the proper training of the mind to encounter and deal with the formidable mass of undigested problems presented to it by the modern world. For the tools of learning...”

“One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.”

“Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.”

“Even Warren Buffet is allowed to have an awful year from time to time.”

“It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.”

“No cowboy songs, no hoedowns. It's a more serious piece. Yet every bar of 'Appalachian Spring' is clear, clean, tonal, intelligible - great music that anyone can grasp at first hearing.”

“Many people vote a straight party line from the president down to city council. Hollywood publicists need to think long and hard about who they are putting forward to lead their awards seaso...”

“We have good security. It's hard to get in here. Barring a tactical entry where terrorists come in and hold us hostage, that's about the only thing that could possibly warrant me carrying a...”

“Looking back over the years, I realize the Bible isn't magic, but it is corrective; it isn't an answer book, it is a living book; it isn't a fix-it book, it is relationship book. When I conf...”

“Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.”

“Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.”

“We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American children, and stop listening to other people's voices. Know yourself, be true to yourself a...”

“In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the outset of the French Revolution, was '...”

“Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.”

“He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.”

“The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.”

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”

“Remember your math: an anecdote is not a trend. Remember your history: the fact that something is bad today doesn't mean it was better in the past. Remember your philosophy: one cannot reaso...”

“When it's all over I might be able to say I've had the strangest career in pro football history.”

“If we are to attract private investment, if we are to be able to make the legislature feel the moneys from taxpayers are being used properly, we must be ever vigilant of the duty to efficien...”

“Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.”

“I had to leave, and my husband was forced to stay on this plantation until after the harvest season was over. And then the man that we had worked for, he'd taken the car, and the most of the...”

“I'd rather not have anything than be a liar.”

“Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident...”

“It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.”

“The history of the past, a hundred years from now, won't be the history of the past that we learned in school because much more will have been revealed, and adjectives we can't even imagine...”

“I am not a redhead. I have never been and am still not. Well, just a little... but I was blond as a kid and then mousy brown. As I got older... it came up. I've got a lot of red in my hair,...”

“In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you'd learn to sing a lot of songs.”

“One of my friend calls me 'lost to showbiz', but that's only because I don't go for a drink as often as he'd like, because I'm always working. I've met very few famous people who are lost to...”

“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”