Every accepted public quote

“I wanted to focus on creating a solid foundation, creating my blueprint, and understanding who I was. You can get distracted easily, and people take you off course with just a compliment. I...”

“All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.”

“I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!”

“Action creates/a taste/for itself.”

“Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.”

“It was tough to cope with the pressure of having to talk about menstruation, but now with 'Newsweek' splashing it as the cover story, I thing the point I wished to make has found its mark.”

“The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.”

“As for getting married, I don't have strong feelings, really - I can take or leave it.”

“I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have live...”

“I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.”

“You know that I said long ago that one day we will be able to live in space! But most people in my time think differently. & I do understand them. One of the main reason for the people in my...”

“Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.”

“Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.”

“Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored. Better to die than to live in slavery.”

“I have real good parents. I have two brothers, and we got good educations. My parents didn't have a whole lot of money, but they spent the money they had on private school for us, Catholic s...”

“The idea of strengthening health savings accounts... that bolsters the marketplace.”

“Whether they give or refuse, women are glad to have been asked.”

“Fill what is empty; empty what is full”

“Life is the only thing which can never be replaced when lost.”

“All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.'”

“The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.”

“Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interes...”

“In high school, I used to draw on my arms with a Sharpie. I knew I was gonna have a lot of tattoos. I'm not exactly classified as an artist, so my drawings could only go so far as I could ta...”

“We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina.”

“I love working. I love it! It makes me feel awake and alive and appreciative, as does my family, but in a different way. If I was told I couldn't do it, I think I would wither and die.”

“No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.”

“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”

“I've been fortunate to be short my entire life. There's only one position I've ever had to play, and that's point guard. So I've always had to be that leader. And that was my job: you know,...”

“Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.”

“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

“We must innovate our ways to growth and productivity in the new year by embracing artificial intelligence, machine learning and internet of things.”

“Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.”

“If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that people see Israel as a haven - from their sadness to their hope.”

“Yeah, I play a lot of point guard. LeBron plays a lot of point guard. A lot of people are thinking too much on positions.”

“What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.”

“How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.”

“I would love to sit down and do only the ukulele with a very small crowd. I would also like to sing the super poppy songs and all the background stuff. I think both would be an interesting p...”

“Without a doubt, one of my favorite American ingredients is blue crabs, a true delicacy! And a great value, I think.”

“I want to be in 'The Hobbit.' I love fantasy and mythical adventure films. I believe in fairies and angels. I believe in nature's spirit, that there are other realms, other planets, life for...”

“I got bored of not feeling affectionate towards girls.”

“Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.”

“Painting and photography keep the creative channel open, and for an actor, it's to keep alive, it's to keep awake, it's to keep watching, it's to keep feeling, it's to keep enjoying, to keep...”

“Writing poetry is a passion, ignited by thoughts, fueled by ink. A way to travel through another mind, where souvenirs of tears are tucked away inside your soul. Or leave you with smiles for...”

“Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.”

“I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort.”

“Take time to feed your soul and keep the mind-body-spirit connection strong.”

“I do love situational comedy, clowning, and slapstick; I approach that with a lot of respect. The goofier you are, it doesn't mean you're going to be funnier.”

“Failure is the greatest teacher.”