Every accepted public quote

“I've heard the stories. Like, Eric Clapton said he wanted to burn his guitar when he heard Jimi Hendrix play. I never understood that because, when I went and saw a great drummer or heard on...”

“Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.”

“Apart from creating a vibrant branded Twitter account for your startup, business owners should consider creating their own personal account on Twitter. Fans and followers often want to conne...”

“As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to e...”

“In my junior year, I studied geology on Saturday mornings at the Museum of Natural History. Mineralogy has always been a major interest.”

“In July of 2006, I visited the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It was important for me to see Guantanamo firsthand and to meet the military personnel who are doing such...”

“As an HR Manager, you don't have to build a top-down perks program. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees, and then you give your employees the control to build a custom p...”

“I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.”

“So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.”

“By all means, let us study the great writers of the past for their own sakes, but let us study them for our guidance: that we, in our turn, having (it is to be hoped) something to say in our...”

“Seriously, in America there are more big, curvy girls than there are little girls, and men love us, too.”

“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.”

“Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.”

“The women's movement was just coming into being, and I got involved with Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug and all these great women. We then got involved with Carter, who was running for presi...”

“I remember seeing RuPaul in 'The Brady Bunch Movie,' when she says to Jan, 'Girl, you better work.' And I froze it in my mind forever.”

“I like the idea of stepping back into another time period.”

“I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.”

“Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succ...”

“I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.”

“Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.”

“Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club to wield against the powerless.”

“I'm an honest person. I've nothing to hide.”

“Nighttime, in a nanosecond, asleep by 10:30. No chance I'll get through the day without two naps. Before noon, around 11 A.M. I catch 30 minutes. Living not far from CBS is perfect because a...”

“I don't really know exactly what the plan is... I'm not a person that's just pursuing acting or just pursuing singing or just pursuing dancing. You know, I would love to do reality televisio...”

“I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.”

“I'm not a party animal; I took my job as Miss USA very seriously... Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though I'm a beauty queen, you're also an unofficial ambassador, and t...”

“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.”

“If you haven't done everything possible to live the life you want to live, you will often visit the Land of Regret!”

“first of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again”

“Today, everyday, try not to worry about what someone thinks of you, who may be hurting or deceiving you or taking advantage of your kindness or love. Just be who you are; who God intends you...”

“Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.”

“The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great -...”

“My signature look is an eighties baby doll dress, combat boots with colorful socks sticking out, and then mounds of jewelry. I love silver and turquoise. I go to Montana every winter, so I h...”

“I like sugar, be it candy, this season's pumpkin chocolate chip bars, or wine. Sugar is bad for me. It just sits on my tummy, causing my middle child Esme to ask if we are having a fourth ba...”

“I grew up in the '90s. My goal isn't to be a '90s rapper, but I have little hints of '90s influence in my music. It's a modern approach to classic rap.”

“All sharks were born swimming.”

“A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think abo...”

“Here's the problem the Free Syrian Army has. They really want to topple the regime in Damascus, and this is where most of the fight takes place, between Aleppo and Damascus for the Free Syri...”

“And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.”

“I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.”

“I tell residents, if you gave me two patients with identical problems, and one of them had family at the bedside with a lot of laughter, plus photos and a quilt from home, and next door was...”

“For me, the Earth had always been a kind of a safe haven, you know, where I could go to work or be in my home or take my kids to school. But I realized it really wasn't that. It really is it...”

“Growing up in New York, we lived all around the city depending on our economic circumstance. I also lived in Puerto Rico for a number of years.”

“I find so often, you know, just on a very mundane level; you've got a meeting and your child's acting in a school play. You can't do both things. And it's not simply that you can't do both,...”

“My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my...”

“It was our view of the worst that could befall our people if they were taken captive. So, what was fascinating to me was that somehow it appears the techniques that we have feared most in th...”

“I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's written. You write it; if you're lucky, it's performed, and that's the end of the whole thing.”

“To live with courage is to believe in yourself, to go on regardless, to love regardless, and to start over every time.”