Every accepted public quote

“Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart”

“Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.”

“Wealth flows from energy and ideas.”

“'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.”

“We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.”

“There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.”

“A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.”

“I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.”

“I'm involved in so many cool and interesting and redeeming things. I'm enjoying every day.”

“Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.”

“Great success does not come without failure and shame”

“Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.”

“The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.”

“O Heavenly Children, God's messengers are as limitless as the fish in the sea. They come in all colors, regions, languages and creeds. But their message is one and the same, don't you see? H...”

“The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these...”

“Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.”

“It so happens that at times your desires tend to disagree with the reality and this is due to the fact that you have not let the two elements complement each other.”

“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.”

“In the non-Greek stories, Persia, Egypt, even China, Central Asia, in oral traditions and written literature, anyone who fights Amazons admires their courage and beauty, and they want to be...”

“If a door closes on you and you cannot find another to open, carve out your own.”

“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge...”

“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.”

“A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.”

“It's easier to face the camera than life. As in the former the script is known.”

“Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.”

“The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it.”

“I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.”

“Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things that excite people day-to-day about each other. Yet physicists in t...”

“I would say my hardest opponent that I have to face has to be probably Rod Strickland. He's very strong. He's a guy who gets to the basket, and when his jump shot is on, it's really hard to...”

“This is the only country in the world where today's employee, is tomorrow's employer.”

“Choose to view life through God's eyes. This will not be easy because it doesn't come naturally to us. We cannot do this on our own. We have to allow God to elevate our vantage point. Start...”

“A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.”

“I definitely don't think I'm going to have a mid-life crisis.”

“Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.”

“Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness...”

“The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.”

“If I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me.”

“I could never describe it to anyone how I knew, but there was no mistaking it. One moment, I was walking along undecided - and the next moment, I knew that it was God's will for me to go to...”

“Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.”

“Fleet Foxes are a really talented band. They make beautiful music.”

“Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the com...”

“Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.”

“I couldn't take much more of this. Being the object two men competed for wasn't as glamorous as it sounded in the movies. The two men who both wanted one hundred percent of my time weren't d...”

“I don't shoot guns. I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists.”

“Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.”

“There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.”

“Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative.”

“Let's not forget, it was the government, Department of Finance and Central Bank that decided to unfairly land the taxpayers of this country with unmitigated losses of Anglo and massive legac...”