Every accepted public quote

“Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passi...”

“We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.”

“Most people don't realize turkeys are friendly, they're social, they're loyal, they have emotions.”

“I do know that people treat me different with blonde hair than they do with red hair.”

“The more time goes by, the more things will happen to you in your life. And the ability to be positive throughout and look for the good in people, look for the good in situations - it's so i...”

“Why would I spend my life chasing rainbows when I can be still and see them in their full beauty”

“People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.”

“I think the people that most often cross a line are comedians. I think they relish that, and take pride in that on some level - at least, from what little I've seen and understand about peop...”

“I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.”

“Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, wha...”

“Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more f...”

“Broadcasters calling a big game are often reminded to let the action breathe. A great moment of a televised game doesn't need any narration, which is why the announcers - the good ones, anyw...”

“I would not call Himmanshoo a good husband, but I would call him my best friend and a great companion. Personally, my mom and my family say that I am very lucky to have Himmanshoo as my part...”

“I've inherited a kind of... willfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.”

“It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.”

“Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.”

“I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep...”

“We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal.”

“I'm crazy lucky. I was trying to be a filmmaker. I was doing Second City classes as a way to be creative. I was a PA for a long time. I was working as an assistant editor on 'Iron Chef Ameri...”

“I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or San Francisco. This may be obvious to some people, but I grew up in Delhi...”

“When you have to do small talk, you know, 'Hello, how are you?' after that, I don't know what to do. I go, 'OK, then,' and walk away.”

“People forget how dominant Public Enemy became in the mid '80s. No one talks about how transformative they were. And then that led to the '90s and the sort of East Coast v. West Coast stuff,...”

“Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.”

“Whether you're a mother or father, or a husband or a son, or a niece or a nephew or uncle, breast cancer doesn't discriminate.”

“He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and a happy life.”

“I am one of those people who just can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.”

“Partnering up with the Monster Energy Outbreak Tour marks a milestone moment in my career.”

“Politics and government have been a terrible place to invest; education has been a terrible place to invest, but that is because the entrenched interests make it a terrible place to invest....”

“I did not see any major issues other than the jury substitutions. I can't know whether there's a problem there, until I read the transcript from the in-chambers conference, when those jurors...”

“Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined”

“We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.”

“A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arr...”

“Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying.”

“I feel like somebody who just is very understanding is my biggest thing - timing is a major issue for me - but also funny! Obviously I want someone really cute and fun and fresh for good Ins...”

“Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.”

“The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!”

“They visited him in saris, clumping gracelessly through red mud and long grass ... and introduced themselves as Mrs. Pillai, Mrs. Eapen and Mrs. Rajagopalan. Velutha introduced himself and h...”

“The absence of men in the household has caused people to not know how to respond to authority with respect. There's a major problem with the patriarchs having been chased out of the house.”

“I write to inspire you to find your true self.”

“It's fun chasing boys, especially when you're young, but I think it takes time and life experience to notice the other boys.”

“Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.”

“We may meet so many people along this long road, But it is of no use, Until we finally meet ourselves.”

“I discovered that as a founder and now CEO, my commitment to and passion for Affectiva is super contagious. It is contagious with my team and at internal company meetings, injecting a new en...”

“Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.”

“It takes a long time to get a reputation for quality. There are people in our industry, they're basically copiers. Look at the cars on the streets. They all look alike. But if you put qualit...”

“My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.”

“We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.”

“I was a football player at college and dislocated my thumb. I was out for a bit and passed the theatre and saw some lovely drama students walking into an audition for 'Much Ado About Nothing...”