Every accepted public quote

“I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.”

“The quantity and quality of your sleep plays a major role in your ability to learn new information.”

“I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.”

“To me, a song is not finished. To me, there's no such thing as a finished anything. All of Beethoven's nine symphonies, to me, are one. I think of it as having no beginning and no end.”

“Jasmine - it brings back memories of India with my parents.”

“I'm not really Bond girl material, and that's fine by me. I'm a grafter; I'm not a star.”

“We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his a...”

“I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed.”

“We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.”

“If you don't take care of the people doing the heavy lifting, they will burn your castle down.”

“Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered. Where do you get your ideas? I purposely mis...”

“I love to bake! I have a huge sweet tooth, and I love to make things like zucchini muffins, you know, anything decadent like that. And I stand by the claim that chocolate can be good for you...”

“One day I realized, without God, nothing matters. So, I asked Him into my heart.”

“My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don't keep score.”

“It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.”

“We only think of days and months to keep track of times that aren't now. Fuck days. Fuck months. This was how it was going to be from now on: forever.”

“Graduating business school, I had $150,000 of debt. An investment firm offered me a steady job, but it didn't feel right. It was 2007 in Silicon Valley, and I dreamed of starting an Internet...”

“Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?”

“Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.”

“I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.”

“I love all things crafty. I love to make jewelry. I love to cut up old clothes and turn them into something new. I love projects like transforming a busted table into a shiny new table. I'm...”

“At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps...”

“Between 2007 and 2010, the average white family experienced an 11% reduction in wealth, but the average black family lost 31% of its wealth. The average Hispanic family lost 44.7%.”

“In my lab, we are always thinking about how cells, bacterial cells, can talk to each other and then organize themselves into enormous groups that function in unison.”

“Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: p...”

“Record companies worrying more about market share than developing artists - I hear there was a time when if your first record didn't sell 8m copies, you were still given a chance to grow as...”

“The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.”

“I'm not actively seeking stardom. I just go to auditions, and I knock on wood.”

“As someone who understands what's needed for entrepreneurs and start-up companies to succeed, I can tell you there is nothing more integral to their success than operating in a stable financ...”

“2007, according to a Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans believed that climate change was real, that it was human caused.”

“Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.”

“We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception of God and from that derive great joy in being his...”

“The first record I bought was the 'Edward Scissorhands' soundtrack. I remember being really obsessed with the movie, and all the campiness sort of went over my head because I was so little -...”

“As long as people are using the Internet, people are going to do stupid stuff, and people are going to do bad stuff. And by the time that robots are sentient, they're going to enslave us any...”

“I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.”

“No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.”

“If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.”

“No jewels, save my eyes, do I own, but I have a rose which is even softer than my rosy lips. And a quiet youth said: 'There is nothing softer than your heart.' And I lowered my gaze...”

“It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.”

“This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.”

“I like clothes that make me feel good. My favourite designers include Michelle Jonas and Dolce & Gabbana. Their clothes make me feel as if I'm Sophia Loren - really womanly.”

“There is no way that the Fourth Gospel was written by John Zebedee or by any of the disciples of Jesus. The author of this book is not a single individual, but is at least three different wr...”

“Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information,...”

“I love telling 'first' stories - first loves, first college experience, first kiss, all of those kinds of things.”

“The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy.”

“Too much collagen will damage the skin. You will get collagen overload.”

“Keep only those things that speak to your heart. Then take the plunge and discard all the rest. By doing this, you can reset your life and embark on a new lifestyle.”

“Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.”