Every accepted public quote

“Time is the rider that breaks youth.”

“I stay away from the title of 'role model.' I want to be a more realistic role model - not a perfect Barbie role model.”

“A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.”

“If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.”

“What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.”

“Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.”

“The most awful museums are in China. They have magnificent stuff on display and just the worst way of displaying it. They just don't spend money on lighting and installation.”

“Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of t...”

“We've become a collectivist economy in Illinois. It's crushing us. And no problem is going to get fixed unless we bring more economic freedom into the state. And I believe that very passiona...”

“Even though an entire journey still stretched out before us, the moment we actually faced that wall was the only moment that mattered. The commitment and effort we needed called for total fo...”

“Everybody got into the rugged outdoors business and into lifestyle merchandising and so forth and so on. And everybody was getting into catalogs and e-commerce and - you name it. It was just...”

“My family was very unsure, and they told me to have a 'plan B' - until I did my publishing deal at 21 for over a million dollars. Then I tattooed my neck to prove I'll never become a lawyer.”

“We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of...”

“The gulf coast, we all know now, after Katrina, is responsible for 25 percent of U.S. production of natural gas. Following Katrina and Rita, almost 75 percent of the natural gas production i...”

“I'd like to say to women everywhere: don't allow these right-wing talking heads, these dishonorable people, to intimidate you or scare you.”

“I was obsessed with Carol Burnett and then Tracey Ullman. Like, obsessed with their shows.”

“While someone who is working out of ordinary science can speak from memory, the scientist of the spirit has to repeat the steps that once led him to the experience or discovery of which he i...”

“You can debate when the conservative movement became a racket - I nominate 1996, the year Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes created Fox News Channel to monetize right-wing outrage - but there i...”

“The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.”

“It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls!”

“I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.”

“I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.”

“I need to be free, to speak the unspeakable. You can't do that in office.”

“I like that Brita makes tap water taste good, so you don't need to spend money or waste plastic with bottled water.”

“You can be a pretty face, but if you're not a nice person, it just doesn't work. I'm not traditionally a beauty, but apparently people think I'm all right. If you're a nice person, it defini...”

“Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.”

“I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents.”

“When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear...”

“ISIS despises the Russian government for its support of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and so it's no surprise that ISIS began targeting Russia in 2015, around the same time that Russi...”

“Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to someone's granny or eight-year-old takes the highest...”

“Discretion is a very valuable asset.”

“. . .criticism is to poetry as air is to a noise: it allows it to be heard; and even if we can't see it or feel it, it is there, shaping how we hear.”

“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”

“My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high...”

“To keep winning, I have to constantly outdo myself.”

“My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which ther...”

“Nothing has ever become better by ignoring the reality.”

“I know it's odd. But when I was getting scuba certified, it was explained very early on that you never get to just strap on a tank and jump into the ocean. You have to know how deep you're g...”

“In modern life, we hide behind ourselves. In Shakespeare, there's nowhere left to hide. It's life, larger than life, and every actor has to raise their game to get there.”

“It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.”

“You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life...”

“The greatest treasure is awe reverence for God.”

“Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.”

“I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's als...”

“Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.”

“Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.”

“I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.”

“I care about dental care, and ending mass private and public surveillance, and funding schools so they can have small class sizes.”