Every accepted public quote

“Being unprepared heightens nerves.”

“I didn't want to give you the one last part of myself that I couldn't take back. And then you were gone... And I realized it was already yours. It had been since the beginning. Except that I...”

“We can agree that keeping serious criminals in prison is an effective means of preserving public safety, but we must also recognize that the axiom of 'putting people in jail and throwing awa...”

“Nobody wants to believe that existence carries on without at least taking a stumble from their departure of this world.”

“We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.”

“More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.”

“I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.”

“Attachment to the past and fears concerning the future not only govern the way you select the things you own but also represent the criteria by which you make choices in every aspect of your...”

“I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.”

“I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee.”

“If there were a song from 'West Side Story' that I would do, it would be 'Something's Coming,' but in a sense that put it in the right key for me and then do that one.”

“Some men are just disgusted with me and think I should have my mouth sewn shut.”

“Dia yang terlalu tinggi di atas singgasana tidak pernah melihat telapak kakinya. Dia tak pernah ingat, pada tubuhnya ada bagian yang bernama telapak kaki. Pendengarannya tidak untuk menangka...”

“The scale of 'Independence Day' is much more than 'Stargate.'”

“It's ironic, really, because I've spent the bulk of my career making my living in a very commercial realm: network television. And yet, my sensibilities don't necessarily line up with how I...”

“We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day.”

“A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmo...”

“Nature made your eyebrows like that for a reason. I don't know the reason. Some people say it's to do with keeping rain out of monkeys' eyes. Whatever. The point is, if you try to redesign y...”

“I consider myself a pagan and a witch.”

“A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.”

“It's hard, transitioning from one thing to another. That's with anything you do.”

“Well, limbo is not a good place to be.”

“I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it.”

“There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.”

“When Nigeria actually gave me the call-up I thought 'oh, it's going to be a challenge, I don't go back there a lot, I don't really speak the language.' I wasn't speaking the language as flue...”

“Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.”

“Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks and courage.”

“I would love to be in 'Downton Abbey.' That's the thing I thing many people would have a good laugh with me saying anything like that. I feel like that's the next phase of my career. To repr...”

“I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 15, 1916. My father, an electrical engineer, had come to the United States in 1903 after earning his engineering diploma at the Technische Hochsch...”

“Obviously as a mayor, I'm in competition with my neighboring cities as well as cities around the country.”

“The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions, and businesses.”

“My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using it on a few patients with Parkinson's di...”

“I was filming in Roscrea in Co Tipperary. I had great fun watching monks in the monastery there making bread. They even offered me a job as their main baker. One of them said I would make a...”

“In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.”

“I entered the industry at very young age, and I was like any normal girl at the age of 17 or 18. At that age, most girls are a little plump.”

“Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation”

“Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like 'What di...”

“The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.”

“I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.”

“I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between the jazz improvisers' solos and the underlying structure that it's based on, the chord pr...”

“I suppress stress to the point where it will force its way through my skin in the form of a large angry pimple because that's the only channel it has.”

“But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.”

“I've done the country, done the pop-rock, done the super-hard electro.”

“So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most importan...”

“Jim Carrey and Steve Carell did dramatic roles. I look up to them. You want a career like that.”

“Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to hi...”

“For centuries, New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for...”

“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be consider...”