Every accepted public quote

“Sometimes just being on a beach with my loved ones is all the adventure I need. I am a happy camper and continue to be a citizen of the world. I have yet to discover other cultures, other pe...”

“I do not put my tastes as incredibly expensive, but they are incredibly expensive for an average man.”

“You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.”

“At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.”

“I grew up watching MTV, so it's very surreal to me to think that there might be someone out there watching MTV, looking at us the way I used to look at Davis Madonna and Duran Duran videos.”

“Mum and dad worked so hard to help me and my brothers grow up as good people. They were both social workers, working with kids with learning disabilities. They are just great people. It mean...”

“The most valuable thing in culture is to find something first - so everyone is always looking.”

“We heat our home with wood so the fireplace is always going and it's pretty cozy in here, which is good because we have long winters in Wisconsin.”

“The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.”

“For reasons we've explored, children struggling to read aren't going to be helped by the one-size-fits-all approach that is typical in so many schools. Rather, we need teachers who are train...”

“I've always said if I had to pinpoint what's more important in a scary movie, the soundscape or the visuals, I'd pick the sound.”

“I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job.”

“Anybody who has traveled with a significant other before knows it's tough.”

“I don't really understand why everybody doesn't want to direct. It's an absolutely fascinating combination of skills required and puzzles set on every possible level, emotional and practical...”

“I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.”

“My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.”

“I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.”

“I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.”

“The requisite of an Empire are the dreams & ambitions build on the boundaries of trust.”

“I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.”

“Nations fight against nations, in marriages people fight against each other, children fight against each other. We are in warfare, in a national warfare, and in warfare with each other and w...”

“I was born in Japan and moved to L.A. when I was six, and I grew up with Japanese culture. I was reading manga, and I read 'Death Note' in real time in Japanese.”

“Growing up, I had a face that people wanted to tell things to, and I grew up with adults who had so much to say. They had lived through decades of unbelievable poverty, starvation, political...”

“However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet under...”

“Our landscapes connect us to our history; they are the source of our character as a peopl, as well as our health, our safety, and our prosperity. Natural resources enrich us economically, ye...”

“The trigger gave; I felt the smooth underside of the butt; and there, in that noise, sharp and deafening at the same time, is where it all started. I shook off the sweat and the sun. I knew...”

“I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona. The anchorman on 'The Simps...”

“'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where...”

“Ignorance is a crime against ones self”

“The acquisition of literacy is one of the most important epigenetic achievements of Homo sapiens. To our knowledge, no other species ever acquired it.”

“He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him it stood as the greatest of hurts. It was the very essence of the unknow...”

“For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.”

“I never had vocal lessons, dance classes, or any of the things my peers had.”

“I've been to New Zealand before, many times. And of course it has a significance to me because I do have something that's very special in New Zealand. I have '10 Guitars,' which is a very po...”

“I believe elitism in politics is over, and a new path to achieving democracy should be charted by young people who have the most at stake in the future of our city.”

“I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think p...”

“My name is synonymous with corsets and ringlets.”

“You is. Within Me! We are ONE.”

“Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy m...”

“Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius.”

“Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.”

“I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting - to a certain extent, even sculpting. It's a wonderful medium...”

“Most weight loss diets center around portion control, which is just trying to eat smaller amounts of the same addictive foods. This approach inevitably fails.”

“I believe, the future church will be high-touch, experience focused, and Spirit-evident small congregations that grow from conversions, not church transfers. Its clergy will be co-vocational...”

“What I do on international flights is watch crappy, sappy love movies... Sometimes they're so bad, it's laughable. It kills time.”

“The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.”

“The Europeans governments have massively changed the landscape in Europe. There is no doubt about it. They have put together the European Financial Stability Fund. They have discussed and ap...”

“Peter Sellers is my great comedy hero.”