Every accepted public quote

“Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political...”

“I think women let themselves be burdened by failures much more than men do. They agonize - and I do it a lot, too - and rethink them.”

“I know a few different women who really enjoy fantasy football, but if it doesn't work out for them in a given season, it's not like they're going to go into a three-month funk. Whereas I kn...”

“I talked once with Harrison Ford about Wright's houses and how impressive they are.”

“Truth springs from argument amongst friends.”

“A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money, but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.”

“It's an image that the media has given me as a bad girl, and the only reason they gave me that image is just because of the few things that have gone wrong in my life, and also because I gre...”

“One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Most people enjoy those rare moments when others make them feel important. It is one of the deepest human desires.”

“Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.”

“When you have a home and create a brand people believe in and want to support, it makes it easier for you to control merchandise and sell it.”

“In Britain, British history is naturally a mainstream subject. Step outside your own narrow specialism, and you can find yourself treading on someone else's toes. But in America, British his...”

“I generally feel like people that are doing the wardrobe know more about wardrobe than I do, and they have an overview.”

“If you look at the teams that mix and match their starting lineup a great deal, that sort of inconsistency frequently leads to inconsistency in performance.”

“I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me.”

“If you drop a player when his form dips, sometimes it never quite comes back.”

“When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.”

“In the beginning, Barry and I couldn't decide if we were going got go forward with the name of the Bee Gees or just as Barry and Robin. Now we've decided to continue as the Bee Gees because...”

“I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.”

“I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds...”

“There was a manga boom, so I read 'Astro Boy,' 'Osomatsu-kun,' and such. But what influenced me the most were things like 'Popeye' and Disney animation.”

“Jasmine, the name of which signifies fragrance, is the emblem of delicacy and elegance. It is reared with difficulty in New England, but at the South, puts forth all its graces.”

“There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.”

“Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted.”

“Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.”

“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.”

“Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.”

“When you pitch a half-baked idea it's so easy for someone to pick it apart and hate on it.”

“One day, I'm gonna make a song with John Mayer.”

“I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was...”

“There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t.”

“When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on the surface is burning up, and you know p...”

“One of the greatest paths to wholeness is learning how to accept the holes.”

“Concentration is everything. On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.”

“Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing, just as a chain of workers pass buckets of water to a fire. The quicker the workers move...”

“What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure...”

“Family politics are worse than world politics. That's all I can say. You don't get to choose your family; you get to choose your friends. Your family is imposed upon you.”

“I did more weight training for Dimitrenko - we saw the big difference in sparring: everything felt stronger; it felt like the movement was much better. We were able to execute the plan in th...”

“The Amen of nature is always a flower.”

“I'm happy for all who reached for the stars happily and successfully.”

“People who listen to NPR are forever thanking the hosts for 'sharing,' or 'initiating a dialogue,' or 'taking the time to explain this very important issue.'”

“What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy.”

“We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.”

“I'm energized by this idea that's live television. In the same way as an athlete when they get on the field or on the court, you have to perform in that moment or it's past you and you've mi...”

“Self-expression is for babies and seals, where it can be charming. A writer's business is to affect the reader.”

“America has swerved from its ethical center.”

“Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!”

“Love will show you that you do not have to search for it because it abides in you whole-heartedly. Love can be bittersweet but its grace is patience. Love is difficult but its mercy is tende...”

“If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be lik...”