Every accepted public quote

“I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about somethin...”

“Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.”

“When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or...”

“Dwight Eisenhower presented a face of America that was heroic and resolute; Ronald Reagan represented a return to confidence and glamour after the weary Carter years.”

“The saddest line you scraped in your diary was not that you cried but those moments when we both shared smile.”

“The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.”

“In my judgment, the woman is the equal of the man. She has all the rights I have and one more, and that is the right to be protected. That is my doctrine. You are married; try and make the w...”

“I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.”

“Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of...”

“In the mind of the public, the word 'planet' carries a significance lacking in other words used to describe planetary bodies... many members of the public assume that alleged 'non-planets' c...”

“If I just cut out the food, I'd have a six-pack. I'd look like Matthew McConaughey.”

“Choosing to buy a particular book over others only or mainly because it is the cheapest is excusable only if you are learning to read.”

“There is such a very large quantity of books clamouring for a buyer's attention that publishers have relied more and more on support such as blurbs as a way of getting an independent recomme...”

“Individuals should take personal responsibility for knowledge acquisition and campaigns against ignorance.”

“Lines Written In Early Spring I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works...”

“Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.”

“The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke th...”

“It is a little bit demoralizing to work a show, and you just try so many times to get something, and the creator just keeps saying, 'No, not that.' Then they just instantly come up with some...”

“Mothers have this huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like, and what we should loo...”

“Honestly, the most excited I've ever been for Christmas is when I get a big fluffy blanket.”

“Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.”

“I've made a commitment that any tax increase, I'm going to veto. It's the worst thing we could do. We have an amount of money to spend. That's it.”

“One of my friends, Bruno Andrade, was so quick, he just used to knock the ball past whoever he was playing against, and I thought, 'Why can't I do that?' Until then, I would try to dribble a...”

“Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude.”

“We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is p...”

“And conservatives know that if you reject these principles of limited government and urge others to reject them you can be my ally, you can be my friend but you cannot call yourself a conser...”

“All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.”

“One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.”

“The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.”

“I use only essential oils for perfumes.”

“The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.”

“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.”

“A woman is like a tea bag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.”

“The Kuiper Belt is the largest mapped structure in our planetary system, three times as big as all the territory from the sun out to Neptune's orbit.”

“I would love to get into acting. I really enjoy acting - portraying other personalities and approaching different levels and whatnot - that would be awesome.”

“I remember watching 'A Streetcar Named Desire' when I was quite young, I was about 12, or 13, and I watched it, thinking, 'Wow. That is pretty cool. I'd like to do something like that.'”

“I call a spade a spade.”

“There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.”

“The gift of the Holy Ghost, which is the right to receive the Holy Ghost as a constant companion, is obtained only upon condition of faith in Christ, repentance, baptism by immersion, and th...”

“Nitesh Tiwari is so particular about his pre-production, where he plans every aspect of his film.”

“How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!”

“Success is an acknowledgement honored by a group who values your actions in the specificity of the venture they cherish - Nothing More! They may not represent the values you personally cheri...”

“In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play once a week, so they must really need to rest. That does kind of tell you how physical the spor...”

“I have learned that documentary makers are incredibly sneaky people.”

“Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.”

“Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I'm not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.”

“I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.”

“The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.”