Unscreened Quotes

#1. Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the people who pay their salary.

Jeb Bush

#2. If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

Sam Farr

#3. But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.

Jeffrey Jones

#5. My occupation doesn't really allow for routines, but I'm pretty consistent about tea in the morning.

Asher Roth

#6. My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.

K'naan

#7. The Santa Claus principle liquidates itself.

Ludwig Von Mises

#8. Life is surreal and beautiful.

Kenneth Branagh

#9. We moved together, unending and wild and burning, and when I went over the edge the next time, he roared and went with me.

Sarah J. Maas

#10. Be careful. Wait out your year. Come home.

Jessica Day George

#11. I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

Eddie Van Halen

#12. Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.

Ry Cooder

#13. I am a lover of beauty, he of humanity.

Ted Chiang

#14. The fact that your voice is amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other does not confer upon you greater wisdom or understanding than you possessed when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.

Edward R. Murrow

#15. Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Samuel Butler