Every accepted public quote

“Quid pro quo has an interesting history. It's originally a contract law term, not a criminal bribery term.”

“My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipli...”

“Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB... I listen to it all. When I'm not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts...”

“Individual companies now have the voluntary responsibility of recalling their own products. While many companies have acted properly and swiftly to recall contaminated goods, the delay betwe...”

“I used to print out lyrics from Nas songs and write my own lyrics in the same syllable count but with different words and different rhymes.”

“I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.”

“Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.”

“The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.”

“Goals do not get stored in your voice message or email bin. They are not going to reach out from the world wide web and remind you they exist. As a result, our goals do not get the respect t...”

“The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.”

“I grew up here in New York City and New Jersey, performing on Broadway shows, surrounded by some of my closest friends from the LGBT community. My father, a minister from New Jersey, shaped...”

“Sex is like money; only too much is enough.”

“Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.”

“Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.”

“I'm a proud woman. I'm a proud man. I'm a proud whatever people think I am.”

“The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.”

“Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything - just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn't work, then...”

“Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.”

“The rules I sort of live by for my theater career, which I hope to live for my film career, is that if there's something that intrigues me or fascinates me, or I don't know how to do it, the...”

“Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.”

“Computer hackers do not need to know each other's real names, or even live on the same continent, to steal millions in mere hours.”

“In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it inv...”

“I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.”

“There's something magical about film, it's the ultimate for me, because it's kind of permanent - inasmuch as anything is. When I went to see Buster Keaton when I was about 14 and I came out...”

“If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.”

“I'm a homing pigeon. When I'm in Tallahassee, I give everything I have to being, hopefully, the best legislator I can be. When I'm home, I'm home. I try to not do legislative stuff. That bri...”

“I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling somethi...”

“By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness”

“There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out there, but they don't know how to go about it. I feel like there should be way more sexier women in hip...”

“I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me th...”

“Profiles aren't journalism.”

“Even before coming into the industry, I was a big fan of Motown, the Jackson 5, Gladys Knight, the Temptations, Diana Ross and The Supremes.”

“Being the only African American at this level in American Ballet Theater, I feel like people are looking at me, and it's my responsibility for me to do whatever I can to provide these opport...”

“...nothing succeeds like success.”

“I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.”

“I love playing Rosie on 'Devious Maids,' and I think that if Rosie would have an NFL team to root for, she would also be a Cleveland Browns fan.”

“At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold...”

“Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”

“I remember trying steroids very briefly in the 1989 -1990 off season, and then after I was injured in 1993, I used steroids again.”

“The shortest answer is doing.”

“I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.”

“Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the cou...”

“All of us can expect to live longer than any organization that we would work for. That continues apace. Human longevity is increasing; corporate longevity is decreasing.”

“Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.”

“When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone.”

“Cinta sejati adalah kenyamanan, kepercayaan, dan dukungan. Kalau kamu tidak setuju, aku tidak peduli.”

“I like how my body feels when I'm in shape; I love how it feels after I work out each day. Fitting in the clothes I like to wear comfortably and living a healthy lifestyle is important to me...”

“There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.”