Every accepted public quote

“I love gospel music, I love gangsta music.”

“The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.”

“There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it.”

“The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.”

“So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.”

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”

“Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run econ...”

“There's a power in empathy.”

“Opportunity will reveal her door if you make yourself believe that there is an opportunity and actively seek to find it.”

“Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.”

“There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.”

“The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view wil...”

“Those who find no humor in faith are probably those who find the church a refuge for their own black way of looking at life, although I think many of us find the church a refuge for a lot of...”

“I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or wha...”

“The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.”

“It's just so frustrating when you're in a supporting role because you only get to express a part of yourself.”

“To be sure, if you watch CNBC all day long you'll pick up some interesting news about particular companies and the economy as a whole. Unfortunately, to get to the useful information, you ha...”

“After Andy Warhol died, it left a dark cloud over N.Y.C. nightlife.”

“I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world.”

“Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.”

“The Beach Boys have always been a part of the '60s spectrum, with The Beatles and that kind of thing. They were a part of the music business like everyone else. And they did quite well as a...”

“If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.”

“I know it's not a one man team win or lose.”

“If you believe that markets operate in Alan Greenspan fashion, then you don't inquire into the details.”

“There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life...”

“We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me - we're a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your hudd...”

“By the way, the European Union Member States together - even the euro area Member States together - are by far the biggest contributors to the IMF.”

“The first step in reforming appetite is going from processed food to real food. Then, if you can afford organic or grass-fed, fantastic. But the first step is moving from processed industria...”

“The original goal for Papa John's was to make $50 grand a year and have $50 grand in the bank so I could get a date.”

“You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then you got to have a job you don't like. Great. This is the way ninety-eight-point-nine p...”

“I like to read people rather than books.”

“Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature.”

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”

“I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That's the difference.”

“If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?”

“I'm a great mummy. I've mapped out all the fun spots in every city.”

“I wasn't trying to be the next Hulk Hogan. I was trying to be the next Vince McMahon.”

“When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.”

“From Brighton to Bradford, from Suffolk to Somerset, I have explored some remarkable buildings and structures that, in different ways, have helped to shed light on the way modern Britain has...”

“It's actually OK to be unique and have your own contributions, to celebrate what it means to be black, how we've survived and thrived through the worst conditions possible.”

“'You better do a lot of praying' is good counsel for all of the Lord's servants, new or seasoned. It is what His wise servants do. They pray. The disciples of Jesus Christ when He lived on t...”

“I have ideas. I hear voices. Words accumulate. It's still an overriding impulse. And I'm self-employed, which means I have to be sensible and motivated about paying the bills.”

“People will try to tell you that all the great opportunities have been snapped up. In reality, the world changes every second, blowing new opportunities in all directions, including yours.”

“It's really hard to watch Leno. I set his chair on fire.”

“The most important things in life aren't things.”

“We cannot eliminate poverty without enabling developing countries to engage more people in economic activity that use natural resources, and we cannot resolve runaway climate change without...”

“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”

“Tagliatelle comes from the word tagliare, meaning 'to cut.' Tagliolini are simply thinly cut tagliatelle.”