Every accepted public quote

“It was the students who entered kindergarten in 2011 who are - and I am weighing my words carefully - the sacrificed generation. It is they who have paid a high price for the politics of yes...”

“No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.”

“The Vikings were the last people to fight with axes, which must have been horrible.”

“Oakland Technical High School. Like any high-school experience, it was ambiguous. I was shy with girls; I had friends, but there were times I didn't feel I had the right friends. My grades w...”

“China has adopted and is implementing its national climate change program. This includes mandatory national targets for reducing energy intensity and discharge of major pollutants and increa...”

“Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.”

“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.”

“Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”

“No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.”

“A broad trend I'm completely obsessed with is mobile commerce. Like completely. I'm completely convinced that everybody's going to be buying from their mobile devices. Whoever can claim that...”

“A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they th...”

“Not a day goes by where I'm not reminded of Gollum by some person in the street who asks me to do his voice or wants to talk to me about him. But because 'The Hobbit' has been talked about a...”

“As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.”

“Even before I was discovered in 1966, I used to make my own clothes. I learned how to sew early on, and it's still my passion now. I constantly have ideas in my head about clothes so jumped...”

“I get facials. I get a manicure and pedicure every week. I get my hair cut, and I oil myself down from head to toe. I got that from my brother. I was so impressed with how high maintenance h...”

“Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play...”

“The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.”

“It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin.”

“In New York, I am barely recognised, or people don't really care. When I go to Portugal, I go outside to a public place and am recognised constantly.”

“What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maxima...”

“It's impossible to conquer knowledge.”

“I don't think I'm a funny person in general. I have had to learn comedy.”

“Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.”

“The flame is not out, but it is flickering.”

“I'm a huge NBA fan and have been for a really long time.”

“Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.”

“I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything.”

“I taught policy and politics for seven years at a university. I told my students lobbyists are not a bad thing; they're absolutely vital.”

“Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new services, it's hard to make a move in the American cellphone world without the permission of the...”

“Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.”

“My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.”

“I think the most important part of the teenage years is wondering.”

“I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.”

“My name, Solange, means 'Angel of the sun,' and I'm completely enamored of my African history. The culture is so expressive.”

“There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.”

“Web series are a way forward. It is a space where creative minds can express themselves without the fear of censor board.”

“With every new class of representatives that comes to Congress, there is a greater recognition of the perils of private financing of campaigns. I believe that by pulling back the curtain on...”

“I'm the ayatollah of the Jane Austen fan base! I want to lead the fan base, not be attacked and devoured by the fan base.”

“I have a desk that I can raise or lower according to the state of my aching back. Sometimes I stand at it, and sometimes I have it high up to write at and sometimes a bit lower to type.”

“My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.”

“You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.”

“Madea is a cross between my mother and my aunt. She's the type of grandmother that was on every corner when I was growing up.”

“It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nua...”

“I definitely have a strong sense of my Jewish and Israeli identity. I did my two-year military service; I was brought up in a very Jewish, Israeli family environment, so of course my heritag...”

“More idiots should just shut their mouths.”

“We all don't feel like a million bucks, even if you're an actor. You just don't; not all of us feel like movie stars.”

“What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. Y...”

“We are safe on the rock which is the Savior when we have yielded in faith in Him, have responded to the Holy Spirit's direction to keep the commandments long enough and faithfully enough tha...”