Every accepted public quote

“Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.”

“The Beatles just changed everything right across the board. They just had that right combination of clean-cut good looks - a cute band - but under that they had a real rock n' roll thing goi...”

“I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.”

“With injuries, every match varies. The black eyes are accidents. The broken noses are accidents. But the bumps from when we land on the mat, they're hard. I think it looks easier, or the fan...”

“It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans - those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beholden to liberal indulgence any more than they are to the disdain of the hard Right. It is tim...”

“The best thing about being a writer is having the capacity to touch the heart of another being with your words”

“And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your...”

“I got to sing for Julie Andrews when I was a senior in college. I was singing some of her songs for an audition and wasn't expecting her to be there, so when I walked in, I barely avoided pe...”

“Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.”

“Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.”

“Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.”

“As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.”

“My biggest challenge in my career is not looking or sounding like anybody.”

“The deaf community relies so much on eye contact, expression and body language. It's such a huge part of who we are.”

“We'll never change the fact that we are hardcore hip-hop and we make rebellious hip-hop music, and we're going to keep doing that and progress with our production, progress with our lyrical...”

“Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.”

“Too many people are too busy making a living to make a life.”

“The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.”

“You can get numbed. People can get hardened. It's not their fault; they just get hardened. News media get hardened. Proprietors get even harder.”

“If you're bored, maybe you're a boring person. With all there is to see and do, there's no excuse for boredom. Get up. Get going. Start a project. Finish a project. Call a friend. Call an en...”

“Only in the last week, South Carolina announced that it is seeking to become the U. S. center for hydrogen fuel cells, and BMW revealed that it will power some of its high-end model cars wit...”

“I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.”

“Randomly enough, my older sisters went to a makeup school when they were younger, so they're all really good at it. They've always told me that 'natural is better.'”

“I am a writer. I am rooted in Tolstoy, I am rooted in Homer, I am rooted in Cervantes.”

“Now that I have a 16-month-old son, my weekend ritual has changed - but it's better than ever. We get up early and go for a walk on one of the hiking trails near my home in Los Angeles, then...”

“I want to inspire people to tear down their walls, especially for teenage girls.”

“Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most direct route to the all-you-can-eat comedia...”

“It is possible to live in San Francisco for $35,000 a year. Obviously, that doesn't include food or lodging.”

“I don't know how others think about me, but if I have to walk the streets, I will, and if I need to stand in a queue at the airport, that's OK.”

“Most of the women in Greek tragedies have their fates predetermined. The gods dictate that such and such will happen to them, and everything they predict comes true. Not Medea.”

“Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international...”

“I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.”

“it is a federal system of sadistic torture, vivisection, and animal genocide, which has been carried on for decades under the fraudulent guise of respectable medical research. And nobody on...”

“By boosting oversight and accountability, we can empower the VA in its core mission of helping the men and women who have served our country.”

“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”

“I've done my own videos, I do my own styling, so I feel like I've just always been a visual artist... I was one of those kids who wanted to make my own clothes and take pictures of everythin...”

“I am a big believer in women's lib, but I love when a man holds a door for me.”

“It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.”

“The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.”

“Ronda Rousey, arguably... I mean, she might've been the one that actually started the whole 'Divas Revolution' by being so awesome in UFC.”

“The power of a person derives not from the office he occupies but from a clear sense of direction and aspiration and from a willingness to struggle for his ways and beliefs.”

“With Instagram and Twitter, you're constantly looking at other people and comparing yourself to them, and it's just not beneficial. There is always going to be someone skinnier or prettier o...”

“I've had two lives. The golfing part... the younger generation sort of heard about me but maybe didn't realize I wasn't too bad at times. Then the announcing part.”

“Your child is never not your child. You can be 90 and your mother 120, but your mother is still worried about you.”

“I'm not a country music fan, so if you slide me some music and say, 'You gotta check this out; it's country,' I'm going to be a little hesitant to listen, and I think if someone says, 'Hey,...”

“Actually, it was first a movie called Gale Force, which was a hurricane movie. That script never came together, and then the same deal was replaced with Cliffhanger.”

“I have a deep and pathological obsession with trees and plants.”

“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.”