Every accepted public quote

“I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.”

“In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.”

“Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?”

“There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.”

“We need to have making, including computer science, shop, etc. as part of the core curriculum from the beginning, not just an optional afterschool thing. Things like First Robotics and all o...”

“Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.”

“In subsequent Christian tradition, and especially among the Church Fathers, there was a deep suspicion of the body and a negative obsession with sexuality. Sex and sexuality were portrayed a...”

“Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance.”

“The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.”

“Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance.”

“When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.”

“An experience like 'The West Wing' is what I would imagine - even though I've never done it - that surfing feels like. It's, like, 'Whoa! I can just stand up here and ride this without all t...”

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

“Sometimes sports serves as a reprieve from politics, and sometimes it serves as an extension of it.”

“Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are...”

“My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and pe...”

“There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it.”

“Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to...”

“I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn't care, she wanted her money in a paper bag and don't mess with me and I've been doing some re...”

“I've been forgotten by our Good Lord.”

“What we think, we become.”

“Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they're shrewd. And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude; But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness, A...”

“Achieving something gives you a sense of fulfillment; so, create your own happiness by following up on your passions and achieving them.”

“I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool - 'Oh yeah, I'm fine, I'm on top of this' - but I was completely lost.”

“When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.”

“Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong banking regulations, deposit insurance, and job programs that put millions of people to w...”

“There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is....”

“We had a really good club at Everton who gave me the opportunity to do the job the way I felt it needed to be done.”

“To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.”

“Blockchain technology is coming to replace the old, rotten system of governance around the world. Embrace it!”

“No guy on the basketball court is a threat to score with LeBron James out there. Not only will LeBron dominate from the offensive end as well, but he's also doing it on the defensive end, wh...”

“Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.”

“I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.”

“The greatest luxury now in being reasonably well-off - overlooking the Ferrari and the aeroplane - is that I can always go for a curry without worrying if I can afford it.”

“I've always been interested in Catholic iconography. My dad's from Naples and I was brought up in a Roman Catholic school.”

“I like cookery programmes: Anthony Bourdain going around the world eating stuff; Rick Stein - he's another favourite.”

“I firmly believe in the old adage 'Actions speak louder than words.' This means proactively seeking women for roles within boards, identifying opportunities for diversity within teams, and f...”

“All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.”

“My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have...”

“My mum gave me pretty good genes in that department. She had gorgeous skin. That good English complexion. She never seemed to have a blemish that I knew of.”

“If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.”

“I do think digital media encourages speed-reading, which can be fine if one is simply seeking information. But a serious novel or work of history or volume of poetry is an experience one sho...”

“If a movie crosses budget and becomes a hit, no one cares. They care only when it doesn't do well.”

“I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.”

“It's so important to understand your good attendance ups your chances of graduating.”

“Relax. They're not going to kill us. They're going to TRY and kill us. And that is a very different thing.”

“My crew used to listen to 'Taking It to the Top' by Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.”

“From the Americans, I took the meet-up platform, from Howard Dean. He used it to gather money. I use it to gather information, to gather forums, not money. This we copied from the United Sta...”