Every accepted public quote

“In Libya, I did well at school because I was clever. In Egyptian public school, I got the highest marks for the basest of reasons. And in the American school, I struggled. Everything - mathe...”

“It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians.”

“Of course theater will always be associated intimately to literature, but the themes or whatever have to penetrate you by the senses. Theater is a sensuous experience, and that's its main di...”

“Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are...”

“Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.”

“Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really...”

“I'd been invited to deliver the commencement address to the Class of 2017 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Speaking live on television is one thing... speaking to 30,000 p...”

“I don't think that one thing defines me, but I know that by coming out the way that I did, sort of almost pioneering it in action sports - to take that stand - that it's always going to be a...”

“Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.”

“When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.”

“If the thought inspires you, and it feels good and right...it is yours, alone, to exercise. So get right on it!”

“For all of the separateness of church and state, Christian morality has shaped Britain and its inhabitants for a very long time.”

“I read a lot on self-esteem issues, and a mother has more impact on the self-esteem of her daughter than peer pressure or media or television.”

“You, of all people, deserve a happy ending. Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter. You aren't cold. You've just retreated a little and been shy, and that's okay. If I we...”

“Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.”

“We will not import crime, terrorism, homophobia, and a brand of anti-Semitism that sets synagogues ablaze.”

“With Bayern Munich, we had a lot of problems against Dortmund, always.”

“The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't”

“This is what I would say to my pupil: 'You have become only your fame and left behind most of who you were. How are you going to deal with that? Will you lose that person forever? Have you b...”

“A Friend Someone You're happy to see, Who's happy to see you. Someone You like for who they are Not just for what they can do for you.”

“Most tall golfers don't have a lot of success. You have trouble getting steep on the ball too much. Stance, posture, all those things can be bad.”

“I dreaded the dance scene in 'Love Actually' more than having my teeth extracted.”

“That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.”

“Before my teens, my contemporaries were reading Tolkien and were absorbed by his works, but try as I might, I could not be drawn in, perhaps as something in me resists the epic, medieval-fee...”

“As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.”

“It's only shocking to the uninitiated that 'Teen Vogue' would have the audacity to be political and style-focused.”

“When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I went for a kind of preppy, psycho-killer look: I had short hair, grey flannel pants, and a b...”

“Beautiful to be isolated from the world and live in your own world where you do not find hypocrisy or hatred or stupidity”

“When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.”

“My biggest influence is Tupac. He was a poet, and listening to Tupac is what inspired me to start rapping.”

“A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.”

“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

“So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.”

“I think part of being Jewish is that innate desire to question things. Rabbis sit around all day and question the Torah. Giving yourself the room to question things, in a religion, just bree...”

“My music translates again and again to younger generations of players because I broke all the rules, and they can break all the rules now, too.”

“Because policymakers often rely on think tanks' research when crafting laws and regulations, it's critical to know whether these organizations are truly independent.”

“And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face.”

“We need to transform our military forces by focusing on force posture, not force structure.”

“I was an old tackle riding around talking to people about sports. Like I've said to a lot of people over the years, 'I only go where old tackles go, and if an old tackle does not belong ther...”

“The merit of 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' then - or its offence, depending where you stood - was not that it was authentic, but that it was credible.”

“Who can be worried without the light of a memory?”

“A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts, however commonplace they may be, exquisitely. That i...”

“Hipster Sexism consists of the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox: the stuff you learned about in literature class. As funny as Dunham's...”

“Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.”

“A lot of people say it's cathartic to cook, and I'm like, 'How is it cathartic washing all these dishes?'”

“Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say...”

“Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn't happen. If that's the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be...”

“Every film may not be appropriate for a theatrical release, and the theatrical business is not a very good business for anybody except the distributor.”