Every accepted public quote

“When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.”

“It sounds a bit cheesy saying 'Coronation Street' is like one big happy family, but there is a real aspect of that.”

“Public crucifixion is no fun.”

“Choose to make time for the things that matters and things that are important to you, no matter how busy you are in life.”

“There is an incredible renewable energy resource off both coasts of this country - wind and tidal energy that can power our economy, create good paying jobs and reduce greenhouse gas polluti...”

“If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am bad at my work.”

“It is certainly for the interest of the service that a cordial interchange of civilities should subsist between superior and inferior officers, and therefore, it is bad policy in superiors t...”

“My mom is my biggest support and critic. I've tried to be a good son, and I don't think I've given her a single day of grief. I want her to know she has my unconditional love.”

“It was a quality of my childhood that everything had these two sides. Even though things could be really beautiful and peaceful one moment, they could also be a bit chaotic or maybe terrifyi...”

“I just think repetition and getting the game reps shooting the ball in games really helps, rather than just practicing. You can get game timing.”

“If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.”

“From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance”

“Affirmative action is not something that the World Bank believes in or promotes.”

“Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.”

“Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.”

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”

“The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside ca...”

“Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars.”

“To bring down your credit card balances, write down the benefits of reducing your debt. No more gnawing feeling that you're throwing money away, perhaps. More money flowing to other financia...”

“Music is the only place where time does not exist.”

“Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”

“I believe there's fate, and then you have personal choice. I believe we have the ability to change our fate.”

“I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.”

“When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s. And just through necessity, going out looking for work,...”

“We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.”

“And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.”

“In the last 15 years, only 500,000 jobs have been created per year. So from a long time ago, every year 700,000 Mexicans have only three routes to take: migration, the informal economy and t...”

“The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.”

“Living under the perpetual and pervasive threat of racism seems, for black men and black women, to quite literally reduce lifespans.”

“I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be...”

“I was made redundant from a job as a PA in a shirt-making company in 1996. I was devastated. I had been there for three years, and it was a job I really liked.”

“After 'Bridesmaids,' women know who I am.”

“Make no mistake about it. Gun control is not about crook control. It's about America control.”

“As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.”

“Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.”

“My favorite Starbucks is nice - Omaha Starbucks stores tend to be friendlier than big-city ones, and the baristas are especially lovely at mine - but it's still a Starbucks.”

“If you're able to build something on a strong foundation, you're not going to be easily swayed.”

“If it's good art, it's good.”

“I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.”

“The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.”

“We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is n...”

“Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”

“I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and...”

“In 'Lion King,' the music is brilliant. The CGI is amazing.”

“I decided long ago that life's absurd. If you don't develop a sense of humor, it will drive you mad.”

“I'm a Katy Perry fan, and I took my kids to go see her, and it was a great show, and she really can sing, and she really can play.”

“there will always be pain. you will hold animosity in your heart and it will hurt you. do not be foolish enough to let these times pass; trees do not hide during storms. they face torrential...”

“I was never totally into marriage, and I wasn't a very good wife.”