Every accepted public quote

“Jamie Carragher was someone who I looked at as to how to organise, how to defend and how composed he was, how good he was at reading the games and he was one I looked up to.”

“I got a lot of crap for being named SZA but not being affiliated with Wu-Tang, and being a girl.”

“The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they...”

“I'm Indian. I care for our Motherland.”

“American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.”

“Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying.”

“I'm learning that it's not what comes our way that matters so much as it is how we react.”

“I want to excel at something, to follow through, to not be afraid.”

“When Facebook first started, and it was just a social directory for undergrads at Harvard, it would have seemed like such a bad startup idea, like some student side project.”

“We never used to blink at taking a leadership role in the world. And we understood leadership often required something other than drones and bombs. We accepted global leadership not just for...”

“Not long ago, in response to a spell of insomnia, I learned some of the principles of meditation, to empty my mind piece by piece. It was like the old game of jacks - cautiously lifting each...”

“For example, Angelina Jolie had Uranus transiting her 10th House roughly from 2010/11-2018/19, the House containing her Midheaven. As we can see, her popularity exploded in this period and s...”

“It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that in...”

“Just like the sacrifice of parenting, teaching is a daily 'giving away' of myself. I give my time and my energy, my knowledge and my care. I give stories and I give listening. I give my atte...”

“We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don't have money to go to a doctor. You help them.”

“I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.”

“The goal of any worthwhile and effective journal of opinion analysis in navigating what is an increasingly tribal and divisive period in American history should be to promote real debate. Th...”

“I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.”

“I imagine how hard it might be to walk down the runway. Me in heels is, like, deforesting the forest, knocking trees, completely 'timber!'”

“I always tell Brock Lesnar the truth. I don't appease Brock Lesnar. I don't placate Brock Lesnar. When Brock Lesnar asks me for an opinion, I give to him an honest opinion that I'm willing t...”

“Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.”

“I have a son in Barcelona whom I am madly in love with.”

“I've had some really big hits with 'Groundhog Day' and 'Michael,' 'Multiplicity,' 'Four Weddings and a Funeral.'”

“You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in.”

“The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that - children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Cen...”

“I'm not going to lie. I'd love to have the mic in my hand opposite of Dixie Carter in the ring and say my piece, say what's on my mind. And if she's willing to sit there and listen to it, I...”

“I've tried to be more self-sufficient as I've gotten older. I'd like to not worry about whether they're going to sell my next album or book. Hell, William Blake wasn't even published in his...”

“People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's...”

“Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it.”

“I have heard from many readers since 'The Girl in the Blue Beret' came out. The story of my airline pilot, former B-17 bomber pilot Marshall Stone, on his search to find the people who helpe...”

“Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.”

“New York City has the most beautiful women.”

“When I returned to Armenia after four months in Brazil, I was still quite skinny and weak, but I had technique and skill.”

“For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences...”

“A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.”

“Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.”

“I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.”

“Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.”

“I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.”

“It's nice to have the power of Twitter to correct things that were incorrect.”

“The Lord turned away washing His hands without soap and water Like a common housefly.”

“All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.”

“I think the ultimate compliment that someone can give you is that you're a technician.”

“You need to discover something that will impact humanity.”

“I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama and encouraged me in every way.”

“Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.”

“To get profit without risk, experience without danger and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born.”

“Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.”