Every accepted public quote

“A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.”

“The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.”

“The foundation of this world is indeed knowledge (gnan). It is on the basis of knowledge that living beings function! Is it Knowledge (Gnan) or ignorance (aGnan)? Ignorance too is knowledge...”

“Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on...”

“Break my heart for what breaks yours Everything I am for Your Kingdom's cause As I walk from earth into eternity”

“I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of missing the fact that you might be quite happy now.”

“The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.”

“We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can't walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a pro...”

“Do not run away from truth.”

“Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe that the voice of Gordon Lish is astoundingly...”

“I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America's economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship.”

“Years later I made a movie with Wayne Newton, who has Arabians.”

“To compare writing an article for 'Sports Illustrated' to doing a piece for 'Real Sports', the article, it was all me. You know, I'm out there by myself with my pad and pencil. 'Real Sports,...”

“I look back at Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, and especially Betty Carter, whom I admire the most, and I say, OK, they set a standard of excellence. I listen to them not for what they ar...”

“I'm just not one of these guys who, like, you know, woke up with a six-pack. I need Skittles. I have to eat very particularly and I have to work out like a madman. And then it looks like......”

“I am not very convinced with having a signature dish. The whole point of being a chef is going to a new place, adapting and curating a new menu as per the culture and community.”

“Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.”

“Players have two things to do: Play and keep their mouths shut.”

“Patience is a most necessary quality for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.”

“In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.”

“It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required to get used to eating less. In other words, if you can get past day thre...”

“The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.”

“I'm a good cook; one of my specialities is reindeer and potato pie.”

“I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.”

“The press is largely directed at white society or the so-called electorate whose values are laced with racial prejudice against black people.”

“I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that. Al...”

“At the age of eight, I auditioned for 'The Sound of Music' and made it through to the third round, where we all stood in a row like the Von Trapp family and had to sing.”

“No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.”

“Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of modern medicine. Genetics owes a huge debt to the humble fruit fly. There's almost no branch o...”

“While I encourage people to save 100% down for a home, a mortgage is the one debt that I don't frown upon.”

“Bill Clinton had a hell of a first 24 months, even though he, like Trump, enjoyed a congressional majority. Scandal after scandal befell the White House, including the failure of Hillary Cli...”

“The way we allow children to be advertised to is shocking. Eating is a learned behavior, and we've made these kids sitting ducks for all the bad messages about industrialized food. The fact...”

“Health care has gotten really weird politically. We've sort of tied ourselves in knots on this issue in a way that we don't do... for criminal-justice reform or tax policy or climate policy.”

“I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.”

“If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.”

“People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.”

“I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious.”

“The biggest difference for me is momentum. On a smaller film you get to shoot sometimes four or five scenes a day and you've got to do the tight schedule. I think I really feel the luxuries...”

“We like to think of the '60s as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and a little bit of friction - no, there were all of these different groups. There was the Student Nonviolent Coordinati...”

“Tension can be useful, exciting, flirtatious, strength-building, or destructive. Put yourself in charge of how you direct it.”

“When vets come home from war they are going through a tremendous change in identity. Then the VA, and others, encourage them to view themselves as disabled.”

“Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.”

“I looked over and saw this man on the extreme right aisle sort of galloping to the podium. He was tall, he was thin, and the way he was galloping it looked as though he was going someplace m...”

“I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.”

“Big clubs in Europe always go through difficult spells where it appears as though there is no light at the end of the tunnel. But because they are big clubs, they always come back, and they...”

“If they go, let them go gracefully; so that they realize how to hold on others next time gracefully.”

“Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.”

“Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.”