Every accepted public quote

“THE MORE YOU PREPARE YOURSELF, THE MORE THE OPPORTUNITIES GOD WILL GIVE YOU.”

“Issues to do with corruption, issues of how we can straighten out our state-owned enterprises, and how we deal with 'state capture' are issues that are on our radar screen.”

“My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother's newness to parenthood nor the force of her middle-aged traumas, as my younger sister, Ruth, di...”

“The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you've got somebody to feed off. It can go on and on and on, and the sky's the limit.”

“People have always said, are you gay? I've had a lot of that. But it's just not in me. I really like women a lot; I'm repulsed by men sexually.”

“I believe the path to a long career is to keep the audience guessing. Daniel Day Lewis is my absolute hero from that point of view. I literally will pay to see anything he does because I kno...”

“If I start tracing, I bet I will find a writer in my family tree.”

“Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history, because it was a town that was founded by Quakers in 1733.”

“I want to help all those youngsters in Nagpur who have fire and sporting spirit burning inside them and not merely those who want to take up wrestling.”

“Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.”

“In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.”

“In short, she self-medicated with books. (By the way, as the author of this novel, and one who has herself always self-medicated with books, I cannot rightfully attest or deny whether this i...”

“You can feel how much money goes into commercials by how swiftly they act on your mind. And they've got, like, a hypnotic quality to the way they present their products.”

“]Sardis often turning her thoughts here ] you like a goddess and in your song most of all she rejoiced. But now she is conspicuous among Lydian women as sometimes at sunset the rosyfingered...”

“People have been trying for centuries to manipulate genes, enhance certain traits, and achieve racial purity, even in humans. And of course I thought of the Nazis and their efforts toward Ar...”

“In 1979, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird entered the league. I remember that. Soon after this, the story began to be repeated ad nauseam: the NBA, a tottering mess in the seventies, was saved i...”

“Growing up around Amish farmland, I enjoyed the opportunity to witness firsthand their love of family, of the domestic arts - sewing, quilting, cooking, baking - as well as seeing them live...”

“I was in New York in 2014. It was still cold outside. I was sitting there working on 'Exchange' and 'Right My Wrongs' at the time, and a fan had commented on one of my songs called 'Let Em'...”

“While the Bible's account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation. Likewise, our future full-size evangelistic Noah's Ark will honor the Bible as God's word an...”

“The fact that our country, the greatest country in the world, remains mired in race relations issues in the year 2014 is an embarrassment.”

“As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that.”

“Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.”

“One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregation. So rich are living with rich and poor are living with poor.”

“Praying is a holy pilgrimage.”

“I define God as an energy - a spiritual energy. It has no denomination. It has no judgments.”

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”

“Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.”

“But honestly, it's pretty weird; there are girls who'd do absolutely everything just to get a backstage pass. I don't know what it is, but really, when you're on national TV in America the g...”

“A global economy that is levering up, while unable to generate enough aggregate demand to achieve potential growth, is on a risky path.”

“What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.”

“No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of a...”

“If you go to business school, and you put a product out there in the world, and it's working, the logic is to keep putting the same product out there. And I think that really bumps up agains...”

“Our conviction that green cheese makes up a negligible fraction of the Moon's interior comes not from direct observation but from the gross incompatibility of that idea with other things we...”

“As shadow foreign secretary, I have been as clear in my support for the government when it does something we agree with as I am in highlighting that which we oppose.”

“Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research...”

“I fought for peace in the fifties.”

“In my first publishable research, I obtained evidence that the replication of polio viral RNA engendered a multi-stranded intermediate, although my description of that intermediate proved fl...”

“We need to strengthen basic infrastructure in border areas so that people don't migrate to other places looking for better opportunities.”

“Women have to be very vigilant, and demand the very best in public schools, health care and pay, those things that men and women of this state value are at risk.”

“I've never been a great one for technology.”

“Even though I'm a hairdresser and I love doing hair, I feel like I don't look like a groomer. When I think of how a groomer would look in relation to the first version of 'Queer Eye,' I feel...”

“I mainly use Stratocasters. I like a lot of different kinds of guitars, but for what I do, it seems that a Stratocaster is the most versatile. I can pretty much get any sound out of it, and...”

“Many words do not a good prayer make; what counts is the heartfelt desire to commune with God, and the faith to back it up.”

“There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.”

“What we have noticed at YouTube is that many users who have uploaded infringing content are unaware that it's illegal to do so.”

“When you're running a company, you have employees - lots of them - that can interrupt your schedule. You have customers that can interrupt your schedule. You have a certain obligation to wav...”

“Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.”

“So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is goin...”