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Quotes by Celebrity

"I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame."

"I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed."

"The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important."

"I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me."

"I've done nothing for the past five years but try to be the hero who protects her. The problem? Heroines don't need protecting."

"Fate.A word meaning destiny.Fate. A word meaning doom."

"The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years."

"You can't leave yet. I'm not finished falling in love with you."

"We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, and who knows that the world can be made new again - and that President is Al Gore."

"I stop stretching and face him, unwilling to back down from this visual standoff. I'm not going to let him perform his little Jedi mind tricks on me, no matter how much I wish I could perform them on him. He's completely unreadable and even more unpredictable. It pisses me off."

"I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport."


"We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired."

"To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us."
Will,

"I've had. It's the real me. People don't deserve anything less."

"I've never been so sure about the rest of my life than I am in this moment. This girl is the rest of my life."

"When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them."

"Lust is the best of all the deadly sins."

"Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it."

"Don't, Mom. I begin walking toward her, but I can see the mist forming in her eyes. "No, no, no. By the time I reach her, it's too late. She's bawling. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's crying. Not because it makes me emotional, but because it annoys the hell out of me. And it's awkward."

"I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person."

"This girl is the rest of my life."

"There is no such thing as bad people.we're all just people who sometimes do bad things."

"Do we all repeat the same words in our heads in the days after experiencing abuse at the hands of those who love us? "From this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health, until death do us part."Maybe those vows weren't meant to be taken as literally as some spouses take them. For better, for worse?Fuck. That. Shit."
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