Every accepted public quote

“Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.”

“I'm all for trying anything once; otherwise, you end up like David Guetta - reproducing the same formula over and over.”

“Some people are not brave but ignorant of the danger they are in.”

“I get enthused by good football because I love this sport. I don't care about which jersey the teams are wearing or which sponsor pays them.”

“In my downtime, I love eating. It's pretty much my favorite hobby. Discovering new restaurants and revisiting consistent favorites is one of my top things to do when not filming.”

“Perhaps Obama is often slow to nail controversies because he needs time to live inside them for a while in his head. It's unnerving for the rest of us, but even the haters, one feels, are ma...”

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

“When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.”

“I'm confident. I'm a crowd pleaser.”

“When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of my memories. She is off to one side, always off to one side, with a book, with a sch...”

“I always wanted to be a character actor rather than the poster boy that they tried to make me 100 years ago. An actor has a degree of responsibility to change for the audience, to give them...”

“God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.”

“When you're writing about difficult things and darker issues, it's nice to offer some sort of light at the end of the tunnel. Some sense of hope. Sometimes, the best way to do that is by off...”

“The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.”

“A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle fr...”

“You've got the NSA doing all this collecting of material on all of its citizens - that's what the SS, the Gestapo, the Stasi, the KGB, and the NKVD did.”

“A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.”

“The right place for a person suffering a mental health crisis is a bed, not a police cell. And the right people to look after them are medically trained professionals, not police officers.”

“I feel like I came out of the womb and was punted - there you go, out in the world!”

“O Lord, I am further away from me than from You!”

“Racism exists, but it is far less rampant than ignorance, and ignorance can be cured through experience.”

“I think there's something about wanting to stand in the spotlight. I think the ball is a spotlight, for example, and I think they want to stand in that. I a lot of times see - LeBron is a gu...”

“For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.”

“The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree program will graduate within four years, and l...”

“Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.”

“Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.”

“I'd sell my soul for a good cause.”

“We have to evolve, we have to change, and in order to do that, we have to initiate the change.”

“I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of?”

“I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in beca...”

“Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.”

“And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.”

“We always mess around with riffs and stuff and kind of jam out during sound checks, but we never actually started playing covers live until we started goofing off a little bit more on stage.”

“Every actor dreams of getting a big break, a big opportunity.”

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”

“If it were a choice between putting ads on Wikipedia or shutting down Wikipedia, we would then very reluctantly consider putting ads on Wikipedia.”

“I wasn't lonely. Loneliness, I think, has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of every city are some of the loneliest people in the world. If anything, becau...”

“Personal responsibility leads to national transformation.”

“Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.”

“The Champions League is unbelievably big. The whole show before, the fans, the players you play against, the people who are going to watch the game, the pressure - it's very special.”

“I haven't experienced anything paranormal yet, but I did see what I think was a meteor light up the sky in a flash of red for a few seconds. That was really cool.”

“But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Inde...”

“It's hard for me to find a script that's perfectly suited to me, so even if it's a good script, I'll still have to work on it with someone and shape it, making it the film that I want to mak...”

“It's widely accepted that it is reasonable for a government to use tax policy to change behaviour.”

“My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning of World War I when they were still very young.”

“To rally every black sheep is my goal.”

“The ego is not master in its own house.”

“But I think the - what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm that we're seeing from independents and Republicans, is that if Washington isn't going to cha...”