Every accepted public quote

“One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.”

“A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.”

“What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play...”

“Success can be reached only by first getting started. Courage is something we call upon when we are afraid but know we must continue on. Determination is that inner spirit that keeps us gett...”

“I like work/life separation, not work/life balance. What I mean by that is, if I'm on, I want to be on and maximally productive. If I'm off, I don't want to think about work. When people str...”

“To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and...”

“Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and wh...”

“You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and...”

“I feel happy that twenty-five years of vicissitudes in my fortune, and firmness in my principles, warrant me in repeating here that if, to recover her rights, it is sufficient for a nation t...”

“People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.”

“In the long history of male and female relations all the way back to the Garden, I can't think of one in which a woman's anger ever won over a man.”

“Canned chickpeas are my tried-and-true pantry fallback for those days where I get home late with no game plan and no energy to cook. More than just about any other canned bean, they retain t...”

“My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.”

“Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow”

“My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.”

“You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work.”

“Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.”

“People know what they're getting with me. It's part and parcel of football that people want to see new faces, but all I can do is play games, score goals and prove I can do it. My record is...”

“You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.”

“There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.”

“The Indian music scene is completely dominated by Bollywood music. We need to create space for indi-pop music.”

“As long as I don't have to go back to the catering hall and wait tables anymore, I'm very happy.”

“Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.”

“When I watch movies - when I watch 'Star Wars' - you want to watch the fun characters, the diversions.”

“What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.”

“Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of u...”

“Because of that I don't care when I read in the newspaper that I am colourblind. I went through a red light in my car and I stopped when I before a green light. So I must be really colourbli...”

“If you look at the casualties, the federal government isn't waging a War on Coal. If anything, coal is waging a war on us.”

“Digital sound is damaging music; it's damaging the artists. It's so degrading.”

“I don't think being beautiful takes away from your credibility.”

“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.”

“He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.”

“My pops played for the Packers for five years.”

“Much like the opportunities that factory work provided for working-class Americans in the last century, microwork will provide opportunities for marginalized people in this one. All they rea...”

“I'm competitive, and I love to create challenges for myself. Maybe that's not always a good thing. It can make life complicated.”

“Americans like optimists and shun 'doomsayers.'”

“Jake 'The Snake,' getting the chance to talk to him all day and just picking his brain - you know, he has his demons, but he's an intelligent person, and he knows the business like no other.”

“I think writers of memoirs need to be respected for the bold decision they take to bare their lives open. That alone should be enough. The things I write about, if you notice, are sensitive...”

“I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and m...”

“The person who knows his calling will find opportunities everywhere”

“I got all sorts of great Nebraska jokes.”

“My goal is for General Motors to lead in safe autonomous driving.”

“The first time I performed musically, I threw up.”

“Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.”

“I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.”

“Anyone who likes Static-X will definitely like my solo record.”

“Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes in...”

“What I teach our people is that, as a leader, you have four key roles apart from people management. First is to champion the grand vision. Two, install systems and a culture to run experimen...”