Every accepted public quote

“As a serial investor who has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for startups, I know that the business plans coming out of incubators tend to be vetted and more thoroughly validated. The...”

“Being an actor is hard. It's so true... auditioning is literally our full-time job, and then, if we are so lucky to book the project were auditioning for, then that project is our play.”

“Canada has this really cool way - specifically Toronto - of encouraging you to wave both flags: if you've been born there, like, wave your flag and then wave your parent's flag, too, and be...”

“So cheer up Beloved; for your God is able, He is the maker of all things.”

“There are two elements to nailing a job interview: form and substance. 'Form' describes the outer layer of your character - your manners, your demeanor, your social skills. 'Substance' descr...”

“In the 1970s, we had Carl Sagan, and he was so suave with his turtleneck and his tweed jacket. And he was, you know, he made science look cool. And in punk rock, we haven't had that. We have...”

“Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore...”

“I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.”

“When we are out there selling a new picture, when did it become part of the deal that you have to sell the family? To use the juicy part of your life to get attention? I'm not blaming the re...”

“I love ocean life. I'm fascinated that so much of it remains unexplored by human beings. Diluted seawater consisted of nearly the same concentration of elements and minerals as blood plasma....”

“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the a...”

“The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.”

“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”

“He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.”

“I don't make much of a living, but I do live much of a making.”

“It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.”

“I think Donald Trump's had a pattern of leaping on the bandwagon of anything that he feels will further his candidacy, and if that means sowing more fear and paranoia and playing into a kind...”

“I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout.”

“Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.”

“Every Labour government has left office with higher unemployment than when it entered.”

“The overlap between Pavement's fan base and people who liked Silver Jews was total. In my mind, even a local band with 20 fans had more unqualified support.”

“In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can...”

“One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.”

“Magna Carta and the Civil War were about the power to tax.”

“When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.”

“I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior modification to break the cycle. I started by setting an arbitra...”

“I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley.”

“I'm not a particularly cerebral writer. I unabashedly go for the belly.”

“When 'Quadrophenia' came out, I turned on to that because of the whole story with it, and there were just some really amazing songs on there. 'Love Reign' being the quintessential song on th...”

“The reason I'm an American is for all the people in this country and recognizing that if business is thriving and growing, it will create more jobs, raise wages of our people, allow us to ca...”

“It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.”

“Thought I wanted overnight success, until I achieved it through hard work and the refusal to back down! What you earn, you keep.”

“As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.”

“As the father of two daughters, the ongoing struggle for women's equality is very personal for me. That's why it has been an honor during my time in Congress to support women's rights by adv...”

“The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.”

“Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.”

“We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the...”

“I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president.”

“There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC.”

“The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program...”

“I find Trump to be like a parasite.”

“That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.”

“For acquiring companies, the excitement is almost always about where they are going - that is, their strategy for gaining greater growth and productivity. But when mergers fail, it's often b...”

“I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.”

“A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.”

“As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.”

“The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the r...”

“A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.”