Every accepted public quote

“Labor Day is a time to recognize and reflect on that work, and for elected officials to recommit to the too-often ignored task of fighting to improve the lives of working families.”

“People always say that, like, you're a dog person or a cat person. I just love animals. I'm not a dog person or a cat person.”

“The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”

“Who's more important than Diana Ross?”

“We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed.”

“I know Brazilian music. I have worked with Brazilians many times.”

“There's a lot of black men running around with crazy trauma scars, and they should be going to therapy. They should be sitting down and talking to people. But they can't. If you've got the a...”

“One with great successes has had equally great hardships.”

“I was in the music industry as Amanda Diva for 10 years but I realized that I had bigger work to do and needed to get busy doing that work. I really do believe that I'm here for a bigger pur...”

“In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.”

“The greatest gift we have is imagination. Without it there would be no enterprise nor invention.”

“A more stable relationship between Poland and Russia based on reconciliation might revive the reunification of Europe.”

“The great virtue of the web, its ease of communication, has also become its Achilles' heel in that it has polluted the air with meaningless babble and egomaniacal drivel.”

“At home, my parents were quite old, so the surrounding was of elder people. There was no noise. Reading books was encouraged; TV was not encouraged, so I was the geeky, studious type of girl...”

“Bali is one of those places you can just keep going back to, and everything is there: the infrastructure, the culture, the art, the beautiful villas. My wife Liv and I go there quite often b...”

“The only menace is inertia.”

“I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these garde...”

“The health-care sector certainly employs more people and more machines than it did. But there have been no great strides in service. In Western Europe, most primary-care practices now use el...”

“Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of memb...”

“I've been called funny. I assume my wife thinks I'm funny. But generally, if you bumped into me and said hello, I would say hello back, politely. And that would be it.”

“The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will...”

“Why are they all high-calorie foods?”

“I put down my cup and examine my own mind. It is for it to discover the truth. But how? What an abyss of uncertainty whenever the mind feels that some part of it has strayed beyond its own b...”

“Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circum...”

“I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of h...”

“We want to make politics sort of entertaining. If it is entertaining, people are going to be interested in it, and if they are interested in it, they might think more about it and maybe invo...”

“I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without, Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.”

“Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.”

“It's just about asking why. We as cooks historically have been very, very technically proficient but not technically informed as to why we do what we do. Modernist cuisine is about that know...”

“It should go without saying that there are as many working-class people who hold socially liberal views as there are public-school bigots.”

“Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.”

“My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and body. I must continue to practice to retain my constructive and analytic...”

“Maybe I'll get into a Bond film... I always thought I'd be a Bond Girl when I was young.”

“The scene of independent cinema is already a large scene in America, and not in a negative way, but it's cluttered. It's very populated with just American films, so the room left for foreign...”

“You have to teach yourself to be free. They don't teach that in school.”

“Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial.”

“You know what you do when you shit, singing is the same thing, only up!”

“I know the value and significance of trading opportunities and have seen myself from Americas to the Far East the power of trade and open markets.”

“'Scandal' has always lived in this dark place with this idea that Washington is filled with this underbelly of monsters, that if the real world understood how dark, twisted and corrupt it re...”

“The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.”

“When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main g...”

“I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.”

“At least inside the city of Seattle, driving is going to be a hobby in 2035. It's not going to be a mode of commuting the same way hunting is a hobby for some people, but it's not how most o...”

“You can grow up without having to conform, stop going to shows, stop having a record collection, start being politically iffy.”

“Believe me, I do not like idleness but work.”

“People often try to distinguish between personal and professional life, but they end failing - Cord 8 : Are we Computers?”

“The protocol things, the officialdom, are part of my work. But it doesn't take more than 20 percent of my time. The majority of my time I spend on issues that I care about.”

“Brandeis is so fast and loose and informal, I didn't have any problem offering a history course as a biologist. The barriers would be far more formidable, unscalable, at other institutions....”