Every accepted public quote

“I think that with piracy and tighter funds being around, people are realising that the game to play is to try and win people's respect with bold film making and then win a special place in p...”

“I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for m...”

“I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.”

“What we are doing in educating students is trying to prepare them to live more fulfilling lives for the decades after they graduate. And trying to provide a better, richer, fairer, more dece...”

“Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.”

“I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and reall...”

“I think what the Tea Party movement is - I'm all for it; they're out there fighting for our rights, fighting for what our forefathers stood for.”

“I was a telemarketer in my senior year at high school. I had to sell prosthetic limbs to paralysed veterans. I was making 150 bucks a week and it was horrible.”

“I have rings of many different sizes and designs, mainly hip-hop, and an extensive bracelet collection.”

“You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.”

“I hate to admit this, but I've never actually hit anyone. I don't even kill wasps or spiders. I'm pretty veggie as well. In fact, really, I'm New Age.”

“In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Viney...”

“The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.”

“Politically active people felt more and more disenfranchised, particularly during the ultra-New Labour years.”

“On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.”

“I'm a strong black woman, and I cannot be intimidated. I cannot be undermined.”

“I am a big one for subtlety and empathy. My dad was softly spoken and didn't carry his honours and accomplishments for everyone to see.”

“People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.”

“I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.”

“I like fragrances that have some sweetness to them. All three I have developed have that as a common element.”

“Live the moment. Cherish the present. Anticipate the future. Frame the yesteryear”

“A lot of times, you feel like you're walking on eggshells in a creative environment, because everyone's having to watch out for egos so much of the time.”

“That I even get to play a sold-out show where people know the words and I'm singing about things I'm connected to is such a blessing. It's the equivalent of a nine-year-old saying, 'I want t...”

“A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.”

“It is a misconception that a client comes into therapy for happiness. More accurately, they come into therapy for a movement in a direction where life becomes more sustainable, enjoyable, le...”

“I don't believe in pretending to be someone else. I'm what I actually am in real life. For instance, like any normal girl, I fight with my mother. I mean, it is just fine. In fact, I fight d...”

“I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.”

“Ring Kuot, a 15-year-old Sudanese boy, was rumored to be eight feet three. And until Leonid's emergence at eight feet four inches last spring, people generally assumed that Radhouane Charbib...”

“You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.”

“Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.”

“Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is...”

“I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.”

“I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.”

“I had a friend named Vasil Rusev in my rowing classes. I've always liked that name. When I first started in WWE, I had the opportunity to choose a name, and I choose Rusev.”

“My secret passion is motorbikes. I want a Kawasaki Ninja.”

“My dad is a huge rock n' roll lead guitar fan.”

“In my final year of law school, everything became real. Malaysian TV shows wanted me to perform big concerts. So, after graduating, I decided to go for it. I didn't think I'd be a good lawye...”

“Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks; and a person wishing to s...”

“If you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy.”

“I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles if I had to.”

“Without Ace of Base, I kind of feel Backstreet Boys would have never found their sound.”

“In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.”

“In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodi...”

“Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region in which it finds itself, so that for the future it may b...”

“Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.”

“Everyone measures time. Some in moments, some in years, and some in centuries. But it is a part of life.”

“Beating Chris Eubank in 1997 was a great win and the toughest fight of my life, and beating Jeff Lacy was great, too. But Mikkel Kessler topped it, winning all the belts and fighting in fron...”

“At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.”