Every accepted public quote

“We all hate on ourselves way too much, and there are so many people who think they have to look like those women on TV. That's so unreasonable. Everybody is supposed to be a different size....”

“Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by ot...”

“A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing.... It takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.”

“Many people have the ambition to succeed; they may even have a special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, the...”

“We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.”

“We don't kill Iraqis - our hands do not kill Iraqis. But we target only the occupier with all the means of resistance.”

“You can love and hate your family with equal measure, but the power of the bond you have to have with them, you can't really ever walk away.”

“I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.”

“Whole new businesses will emerge around breakthrough products as revolutionary technologies accelerate capitalism's creative destruction of slower industries.”

“It doesn't matter who you are. It can happen to anybody. We have Kenyan, Dominican Republic and even Scandinavian Olympic gold medalists. All you need is will power.”

“The first time someone asked us for an autograph was the moment we realized we were doing something that most people spend their teenage years dreaming about, for sure.”

“'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.”

“Don't be a cow.Fly up your young life”

“In my heart, I've always wanted to do right, but I never knew what right was... but it's weird: God reached down, He said, 'Boom! This is what you are!' and I was like, 'Whoa!'”

“While players say they like the five-day break, they're also saying they don't like the compression that goes along with it, and that's something that is of great concern to us as well.”

“Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It...”

“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.”

“Love is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be the world.”

“Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of a...”

“If you are going to fire this person or hire that person, do it all in a concentrated period. The Band-Aid gets ripped off, and everybody goes back to work.”

“I always loved asking everybody when I arrived in England, from the drivers who picked me up to the people at the hotel to people I met when I was walking in the park, almost everyone at som...”

“When my career in hotels was taking off in the Nineties, I went to work as a head baker in Cyprus, where I was making Danish pastries every day. I can remember that the head chef was always...”

“It's not getting it right the first time--it's learning to do it right and then not getting lazy.”

“Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the...”

“I didn't come from a wealthy family. My dad told us if we wanted spending money, we had to earn it. So I developed an early work ethic.”

“The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.”

“The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into t...”

“When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.”

“Some riders believe in all the hype at the TT; have a successful week, give up work then go and buy motorhomes and cars. I like to get back to normal afterwards and go to work.”

“It was tennis that got me started in business. When I was 16 and about to embark on my A-levels, I set up a tennis academy and became one of the youngest qualified tennis coaches in the coun...”

“A leader who listens is one who is malleable and willing to refine her views and actions as she learns new information or hears a better idea.”

“The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.”

“I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and once I realized what it was I had an epiphany. Before I was even playing the guitar, I wou...”

“I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see...”

“A dead tree, cut into planks and read from one end to the other, is a kind of line graph, with dates down one side and height along the other, as if trees, like mathematicians, had found a w...”

“Good luck has its storms.”

“No one knows your truth but you. If you're secure in yourself, no one and no(thing) can touch you.”

“It's better to burn out, than to fade away.”

“I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'”

“I met Sue Perkins at the Footlights, where she brought the house down at the auditions.”

“Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.”

“God - God's the wrong word - goddess or nature will conspire to transform you in a way you couldn't have imagined.”

“Personally, I had no confines: there were no bounds, no boundaries that I felt when I got in the ring.”

“In real life, I am trying to save the Steve Irwin wildlife preserve. It's in Australia, up on Cape York, and it's in danger of being strip-mined.”

“Words will never be enough to quantify and qualify the many magnitudes of human-caused destruction.”

“There is nothing wrong with eating sweets, fried foods, pastries, even drinking soda every now and then, but food manufacturers have made eating these formerly expensive and hard-to-make tre...”

“A lot of the new people they choose on shows like 'American Idol' and things like that - I don't ever hear lead singers. They always seem to choose to pick people that are great singers, fab...”

“The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or...”