Every accepted public quote

“Belief is the most important thing in football. Not quality, running, or being strong but belief, faith, and fight.”

“The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?”

“My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.”

“I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.”

“The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.”

“We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerf...”

“Oprah Winfrey is a big role model for me from a business capacity and a creative capacity. She is an incredible interviewer who cultivated a certain style by inserting her own personhood int...”

“We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier...”

“The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.”

“Ip Man was an extraordinary man who lived during extraordinary times. He was born to a rich family when the country was still a monarchy and lived through various civil wars, revolutions, th...”

“I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart. 'Wanna Say' is one of the few...”

“I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.”

“We hear about the Gershwins, the Kerns, and the Berlins, but there were some great little writers like Theodore Morse, Charles K. Harris, and Ernest R. Ball, who wrote 'Let the Rest of the W...”

“You could start now, and spend another forty years learning about the sea without running out of new things to know.”

“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”

“There's nothing funnier than the human animal.”

“I had an AM radio and listened to Al Green, Kenny Rogers, Stevie Wonder, Charley Pride and Cheap Trick - sometimes in the same hour on the same station!”

“I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.”

“A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.”

“Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.”

“All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradua...”

“No one reaches a high position without daring.”

“I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born.”

“I love America, it's a much more permissive place.”

“I don't think of careers from a functional perspective or from a subject matter perspective. I think of careers as, how do you like spending the time in your day? What makes you happiest? Wh...”

“Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.”

“I remember lying in bed one night when I was 15 and deciding I was ready to go into acting properly. I'd put it off until then because I didn't feel I was ready to handle the rejections.”

“Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.”

“I worked in restaurants, and I worked in the Cambridge Public Library.”

“Some people asked me if it was going to be a downer to come back and play on a college team after playing on a world championship team, and I don't think they understand what it is like to p...”

“Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity...”

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”

“I love a wild animal print. Not just a leopard print - I'm talking about a tiger or zebra print, too.”

“Modern conveniences grant us more free time to focus on spiritual needs and devote more time to personal service. But the basic element which should never change in the lives of righteous yo...”

“Goldman Sachs isn't the firm it once was when I worked for it, but it's still one of the building blocks of our capitalist society.”

“The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.”

“I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.”

“I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while...”

“When coming to sex: First served, first come.”

“Let me say this: Camel is delicious, but when handled improperly, it's rank.”

“The best time to make deficit reduction a priority is when the inflation rate and the bond market give you some indication that you are headed for a dangerous inflationary spiral.”

“It was very easy to convince me to take on the job of character designer for 'Dragon Quest.'”

“If you read Bernard Hopkins' name in the dictionary, the definition would be 'discipline.'”

“Directing plays lacked the immediacy and connection to real world events that journalism offered; journalism lacked the drama, theatricality and subjective storytelling of theater. It wasn't...”

“'Staunch conservatives' and 'free marketeers' are fairly typical Republicans, while the 'American preservationists' are far less reliably a part of a GOP coalition.”

“The number-one defender of the Second Amendment rights is the National Rifle Association. The NRA works tirelessly to elect pro-Second Amendment candidates, and it fights fearlessly to win t...”

“That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner...”

“I am not religious in any way, but I have a pagan ideology and pagan values.”