Every accepted public quote

“As foreign attacks increase, it's easy to treat them like bad weather happening somewhere else. It's what we read over breakfast. But when that storm hits your shores, remember this: Wishful...”

“There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.”

“Sioux was always a horse culture, especially the Lakota Sioux. My mom is from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation; my dad is from a Sioux Indian reservation. Both tribes are Lakota.”

“What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen...”

“When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises f...”

“I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.”

“It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up...”

“Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.”

“To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West.”

“'Animal Kingdom' feels like a suburban Melbourne version of 'The Godfather 'to me. It's epic and Shakespearean in its story, and yet you still feel like you can reach out and touch it.”

“You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.”

“There's this myth that has been exacerbated by others that Starbucks means a $4 cup of coffee, which is not true.”

“I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the powe...”

“One of the problems with the Security Council is that there are vetoes, and they do not allow us to do what might be justified from the point of view of sanctions.”

“When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.”

“Different outcomes require new ways of thinking and acting. The old way always leads to the old results.”

“Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.”

“I think that a lot of actors of color have said that it's a wonderful thing to play a role that doesn't have a race and that is kind of open to any sort of interpretation. I completely under...”

“Architects always have a feel for time - the generation they live in - as we do, and they are always striving toward boundless adventure.”

“When I go out and talk to people about how unique they are as a human being and that there's a niche for them that they need to follow through on for their lives, it's what I truly believe i...”

“If music serves to convey feelings through the interaction of physical gestures and sound, the musician needs his brain state to match the emotional state he is trying to express. Although t...”

“When you look at hip-hop, I want to do that: to spit fire and take our best from the ashes to build our kingdom; to recognize all the regional styles, conscious lyrics, the tracks, undergrou...”

“I moved out to New Zealand to live as I thought the warmth and peace and quiet would help me. I went away and changed my whole life routine.”

“If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.”

“The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.”

“There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.”

“When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.”

“Empowering innovations require long-term investments, which tie up capital for years and years. So companies are using capital to create more capital, and consequently, the world is awash in...”

“A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.”

“Football is a team sport, and each person plays a role - this is what counts.”

“Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.”

“'The Tales' are an important part of 'Hollow City,' when the kids discover secrets encoded in them that end up saving their lives. I wrote two tales as part of 'Hollow City,' and spent the n...”

“We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.”

“I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.”

“Francis seems familiar because Catholics have already known him in the Vatican II priests who have been their pastors and sacramental ministers over the years since that council brought new...”

“Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hu...”

“And all that you are sorry for is what you haven't done.”

“I'm a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they're simpler for customers.”

“I was very troubled, yes. Me and my brother both - we were troubled and troublemakers.”

“I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over.”

“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartmen...”

“I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.”

“I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.”

“Your hair doesn't need to be washed every day any more than your black pants have to be dry-cleaned every time you wear them.”

“While normal people have to disclose donations directly to a candidate, there is no such transparency on people donating to certain types of nonprofit organizations that can play a major rol...”

“I pushed the envelope as far as it needed to be pushed, and now it's on the floor, and people seem to want it to stay there.”

“Knowing what to say, in the right way - at the perfect moment - can mean the difference between a world-class life and an average one.”

“My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. A...”