Every accepted public quote

“I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.”

“Passion fuels the vision and purpose provides the action for success”

“We have fear as soon as we are born, we are born into a state of physical helplessness.”

“A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.”

“Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money.”

“Our five-year-old son thinks I ought to work in the local bookshop, and I can see the appeal of that.”

“I am a geek nerd who happened to have a temporary period of jockiness.”

“I ate no butcher's meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass of spirits or wine until my wedding day. To this I attribute my continual good health, enduran...”

“It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.”

“We were so little when you took away all our sins.”

“If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out.”

“Golf is the most fascinating game, but other people's game is the most boring thing.”

“Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.”

“In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of them work for less money than they might fetch in some other industry, given their skills...”

“There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us.”

“The year 2014 was a big year for my taste buds. They really stepped up their game. Like, I got into red wine, coffee and sushi for the first time. Well done, George.”

“The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.”

“People who base success on the here and now, have no hope for keeping it for long. True success takes on a life of its own. The beauty of that life is, it can be immortal. If you nurture, cu...”

“The best way to survive life is - never fret over what you don't get. There's a bigger plan for you.”

“I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous.”

“It did not seem odd to Max that what he had imagined about Stumps was really true, because this was exactly how games you made up worked. Of course they were true. In your mind.”

“I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.”

“I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fashionable who knows how to twirl her ladylike locks just so and walk adroitly on kitten he...”

“After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a w...”

“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.”

“When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.”

“We used to have a photo of me in full clown makeup taken when my son was 5. And when he was 17 or 18, he said, 'Yeah, that thing used to scare me. I hated that photo.' So it is scary; clowni...”

“I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They wo...”

“The importance of this success of Wipro has become manifold more, because it's the success of Wipro that enables the possibility of making a difference to some of the most disadvantaged peop...”

“Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fi...”

“I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.”

“Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.”

“I grew up in the GOP sandbox. My dad took me, age 7, to meet Herbert Hoover, in his apartment at the Waldorf Towers. He gave me a silver dollar. Being a young Republican, I spent it on comic...”

“Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as p...”

“If people don't like me, I insist they can vote for someone else. The only stupid thing we can do is to stay at home. I don't know a single election in the world that was changed by staying...”

“To work is nothing; the king on his throne, the priest kneeling before the Holy Altar, all people in all places had to work, but no person at all need be a servant.”

“I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it's one-sided.”

“At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.”

“I think we live in a culture that is actually hedging all of it towards comfort and immediacy, things that scare me. All the things that they sell us as a way of life scare me.”

“The future is uncertain but the end is always near.”

“Every victorious warrior draws his strength from the highest source; his love.”

“I've always been an artist who's about being real and about telling the truth and making music with integrity and talking about something.”

“Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.”

“Everyone who has succeeded in correcting their wrong should have the right to work.”

“Jason McDermott's political career, however bogus, appears to have had an early and promising start.”

“When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.”

“I really wanted to be a mom. I didn't want my kids to be raised by a nanny, which would have been the case if I were working two movies in a year, you know? And I would have been hospitalize...”

“One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.”