Every accepted public quote

“I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.”

“A nation has the capacity to choose its own capital city, and Jerusalem is Israel's capital.”

“I think the height of ridiculousness was when I was playing Elizabeth in 'The Golden Age' while preparing to start shooting 'I'm Not There.' I literally finished filming Elizabethan grandeur...”

“I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.”

“As a physician, I know that human life begins with fertilization, and I remain committed to ending abortion in all stages of pregnancy. I will continue to fight this atrocity on behalf of th...”

“When I was in Milwaukee, I would go into this sneaker shop near my mom's salon and chop it up with the older heads about music. At school, I would make drum noises on the table so much that...”

“Good scripts that are offered to me are few and far between, so I pick the best that I get.”

“Ever since Binibini, I've really been hands-on since I've been an independent candidate. I'm hands-on in every single aspect of my preparations because I'm having so much fun.”

“The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.”

“The U.N. must be a good steward of the funds entrusted to it. Abuse and waste are therefore not a mere public relations problem. Institutional reform is not a one-off event, like applying a...”

“I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.”

“The majority of advertising agency creatives are creative people, but we've disciplined ourselves to think within traditional formats. I want to change that.”

“The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without puttin...”

“Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one l...”

“I'm more of a homebody type. I don't want to look like I want to be in the public eye. I didn't become an actress to be famous.”

“She hopes she might convince her sea monster that she will not abandon her.”

“I don't just whisper it, I say it and I say it: 'The United Nations is an anti-Semitic organization, an anti-Israel organization.'”

“Several countries - among them Austria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, India, Israel and Sweden - ban or severely restrict the use of wild animals in circuses. In Brazil, a movement to ban wi...”

“Do you feel bored and stuck in a rut? Is work drudgery? If so, you are spending far too much time bemoaning your fate and how the universe is not cooperating with your desires. Be present wi...”

“In New York, I have a photo of my parents on their wedding day in 1947. They're beaming at home plate in Houston's Buffalo Stadium. I love the photo because my dad is smiling. He didn't smil...”

“I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.”

“There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.”

“Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.”

“We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultane...”

“I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist an...”

“Jeremy Clarkson wants to become a farmer - he's bought a field - Hammond wants to open a supermarket, and I'd like to spend my days owning a shoe shop.”

“We've ignored audiences all these years. We've just amused ourselves and hoped enough people would want to eavesdrop to make it all viable.”

“I would never discredit the sport or my opponent by reading my injury list before or after the fight. I've always thought it's a very underhanded thing to do, and it's a very cowardly thing...”

“You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”

“I love doing TV. It's so great for my world as a mom, as someone who likes to have a steady job and go to work feeling secure because I'm with a family.”

“Getting to be on DVD is a huge step for me as an actor, this isn't the world that I imagined for myself.”

“I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around.”

“Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.”

“The first news event I understood as a small child was the loss of the space shuttle Challenger, which President Reagan eloquently mourned from the Oval that evening.”

“I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.”

“To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well.”

“The right to keep and bear arms is a right that Kansans hold dear. The people of Kansas have repeatedly and overwhelmingly reaffirmed their commitment to protecting this fundamental right.”

“Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I...”

“There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.”

“The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.”

“My father is Hungarian and moved to Britain during the uprising, and my Spanish mum comes from Galicia; they moved here at the end of the Fifties.”

“I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.”

“Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.”

“On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.”

“There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from th...”

“I tell people that if I'm ignoring them, chances are I may not have heard them. I depend on hearing aids, but I've not found it a problem. I'm visually very aware!”

“Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”

“Working with a new style of choreography is always a period of adaptation.”