Every accepted public quote

“My country ... gave me schooling, independence of action and opportunity for service. ... I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.”

“Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble.”

“When you come out of the ocean after surfing all day, loco moco is the best thing you ever tasted.”

“I tried a juice cleanse, and it was a total disaster. For the eight hours that I lasted, I felt like I was on the brink of starvation. For me, it's about making the right choices.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dy...”

“And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill.”

“I'm part of the generation that grew up with great rappers like 2Pac and Biggie and people like Amy Winehouse. We've seen a lot of different artists come and go. Even people who are still he...”

“The thing that upsets me the most is the entitlement of people that will stand with a flag and say to some other people that they need to go back to where they came from. When, in fact, they...”

“I think there have to be Bachs and Beethovens. We may have - there are so many more people. Musical training is available to so many more, but it may be that we've hit a right wall in terms...”

“Great writers are the saints for the godless.”

“Canada truly understands that girls and women who have access to a safe and high-quality education is a priority.”

“We need to encourage designers and agencies to be responsible. We need to make sure everyone is sensitive to the issues. But to calculate the girls' body mass - I personally think it is deme...”

“I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy.”

“No matter how much he talked, she never answered him, but he knew she was still there. He knew it was like the soldiers he had read about. They would have an arm or a leg blown off, and for...”

“In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.”

“Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to...”

“Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.”

“People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.”

“Listen, I've always been very headstrong.”

“Is there another copy of you reading this post, deciding to put it aside without finishing this sentence while you're reading on? Think about 10^10^29 meters away from here!”

“It's not that I am against the rich giving money to charities. I'm all for it, and we should think of ways of encouraging more of it. But I also believe that states, rather than individuals,...”

“I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.”

“But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be mad...”

“Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.”

“As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.”

“I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.”

“What is hard for you is not what is hard for God. What is hard for God...is to find men and women that He can trust...with His secrets of the future.”

“I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.”

“The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!”

“I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.”

“You have to respect and understand the environment. So I don't think it's a case of taking anything from Ostersund and transferring it to somewhere else.”

“For many on the Right, America is to be routinely celebrated because it stands for free enterprise and global power; for many on the Left, America merits perpetual suspicion and censure for...”

“Building a new Health and Hospitals Network is fundamental to building a stronger and fairer Australia.”

“Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.”

“Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well st...”

“I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.”

“Without the Knowledge of One's real form as the Self and Its realization, anything that is being done will cause that living being to wander about aimlessly in worldly life.”

“Love' is the answer, there is no question about that”

“Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing.”

“In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.”

“I would love to believe that my political judgment is impeccable, but it's not.”

“It is easy to respect secular Americans who hold fast to the Constitution and to American values generally. And any one of us who believes in God can understand why some people, given all th...”

“And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one...”

“Black, white, rural, urban, Democrat, Republican, independent. People who come from both ends of the socio-economic spectrum. Male, female. Young and old alike. This is our Kentucky.”

“I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.”

“Today, few terrorist organizations still employ the 'al-Qaeda model' in which individuals travel to terrorist training camps overseas and then are deployed to the West to inflict atrocities.”

“Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and...”