Every accepted public quote

“TIME CHANGES our appearances---and our addresses...BUT---TIME can NEVER STEAL from US the Memories that SHAPE OUR LIVES and OUR DESTINIES.”

“I have seen cabinet secretaries who type with two fingers.”

“I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.”

“Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.”

“With the commissioning of new schools undertaken by a local director of school standards, decisions will be fair and transparent, rooted in the needs of the local community. The admissions c...”

“By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.”

“When God anoints you, surely you will be appointed for massive accomplishments.”

“Obama is the new kid with the weird name who people just sense is a little classier than his surroundings. He moved from a private school where he was class president and is now at the giant...”

“Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.”

“I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.”

“I met Adam Sandler through 'Saturday Night Live,' and we became friends.”

“Justice that is not rooted in equity, in social welfare, and in community is not justice at all.”

“The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.”

“I have a very small sample size: 2-0 to start my NFL career. Talking a lot of smack. And then I walk into Kansas City and put up the worst football game of my existence. And I've always been...”

“Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.”

“Growing up in bars might sound like child abuse. And if it does, then you're what my mom would call 'Protestants.'”

“Stalin, of course, never went on trial, but his legacy did. In 1956, three years after his death, he was denounced by Nikita Khrushchev. And his crimes were even more explicitly exposed by M...”

“We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.”

“My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn't as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him...”

“I formed my first band when I was going to Valley Torah High School in Los Angeles.”

“I never engage negatively with reviewers. If someone says something that enrages me, I do what I do on stage. I make a joke about myself and move on. Sometimes people say things that are man...”

“I don't want to be the glam doll; that doesn't appeal to me at all.”

“There may be some changes in building codes, but I don't see any stylistic departure that you'll be able to attribute to Sept. 11.”

“I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for othe...”

“Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.”

“False thinking and false ideologies, dressed in the most pleasing forms, quietly - almost without our knowing it - seek to reduce our moral defenses and to captivate our minds. They entice w...”

“I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.”

“I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.”

“We live, in North America in general, if I'm given the indulgence of selling us down the river, in a culture of fear of this connective sense of spirit.”

“I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is des...”

“Technology can be used to make people's lives easier, to reduce inequality, to facilitate inclusion, or to solve intractable global problems, but without dialogue and governance, it can be u...”

“I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.”

“You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.”

“Most of the guys in the NFL would sit here and tell you we don't condone the abuse of a child, any sort of abuse of a woman, breaking rules, failing drug tests, or doing any of those things....”

“On November 18 of alternate years Mr Earbrass begins writing 'his new novel'. Weeks ago he chose its title at random from a list of them he keeps in a little green note-book. It being tea-ti...”

“I'm not, like - what's the word when you believe in a lot of magic? Superstitious.”

“I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.”

“There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely and imagine freely. There just really is no point.”

“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”

“The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.”

“We really just didn't realize the diversity of planetary types in our solar system. Pluto looked like a misfit because it was the only one we saw. And just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, the...”

“Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.”

“We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.”

“Like a typical Gemini I'm changeable, I can be two different types of people. I can be very outgoing, but sometimes very shy.”

“The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself.”

“Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.”

“It's one of these things that I've been struck by for so long about America. You know, this amazing politeness of American life that's not at all class specific. It's not like people get mor...”

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”