Every accepted public quote

“If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.”

“And then finally, I'm the commander, so I am fundamentally responsible for the lives of the other people on board and the health and longevity of the space station. I need to bring six peopl...”

“My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.”

“I find an apple before singing really, really helps... It's like there's something in the pectin in the apple that helps get rid of vocal clicks.”

“The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people...”

“'Mrs Funnybones' is based and structured around my columns, and it's about how a modern woman looks at India and how India looks right back at her. Since I have a weakness for illustrations,...”

“Weight is just not a hot button. In fact, during my life, it probably should have been on my radar screen a bit more. I look back at work photos and am shocked. Was I eating the people I was...”

“In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I move things in all directions. It's such a...”

“I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.”

“I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.”

“There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.”

“The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.”

“I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more.”

“I am very domesticated. I find I really enjoy it.”

“I describe Jeb Bush as a 'low-energy' individual, and unfortunately for him, that stuck. And it's true: he's a low-energy person. That doesn't make him a bad person.”

“The dark before the dawn is only there to show the light where it needs to be.”

“I love having my hoop earrings. Just regular gold hoops.”

“I find it difficult to work if I don't know the lines, you know, and not just knowing - they're second nature to me. Then, whatever happens in the performance when you're actually doing it,...”

“We said, as we were developing 'Iron Man 1,' and working on these films, that our characters need to be as interesting out of their costumes as they are inside their costumes, fighting and f...”

“Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role...”

“In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.”

“After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hisp...”

“Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.”

“My biggest accomplishment was playing 'Lark' on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes.”

“Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.”

“I talk to all the creative directors today, and they take me aside, and they say, 'You know, it must have been great back in those days when you could do anything you wanted.' I say, 'Huh? E...”

“In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the moon landing was right up there with the Mets in the World Series. So it made a, a big im...”

“I'm Ifa. I grew up practicing Ifa, my mom is Ifa, my whole family is Ifa.”

“Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and...”

“There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380 SL convertible.”

“There's a set of people who are intrinsic oppositionists to everything Google does.”

“No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?”

“Nobody's going to tell me to rap in an American accent.”

“People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.”

“I want to make theme-setting music, music that sets a theme without being cliche.”

“I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just running away all the time.”

“As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.”

“I get by mostly on speaking engagements, but as soon as I try to pay myself, I end up having to give it back to the business to cover operating expenses or other unplanned costs.”

“If somebody is saying that I should not compete because I'm a man, I don't know what to say to that. And if somebody is saying that I had it easy, I would invite them to join the military an...”

“The competitive pressure to produce, buy, and sell to our global multi-national companies is so intense that contractors in supply chains are motivated to pay low wages, intensify exploitati...”

“Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't.”

“I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found no fault with that, except I just couldn't stand being typed or pigeonh...”

“I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'”

“I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking order, and everybody knew it.”

“We're trying to plug a void and bring what's been missing back to hip-hop.”

“The great thing about working in cable is that, since the season is truncated - we only do 12 shows - the writers are more at ease in terms of mapping out the trajectory of the story and the...”

“If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not - you are not smiling about it.”

“The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Intern...”