Every accepted public quote

“Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.”

“The kind of roles that Harrison Ford plays are what really interest me, like 'Indiana Jones' and 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'”

“If we had a flat tax code rather than a 70,000-page document full of cronyism and favors, bureaucrats and elected officials wouldn't have the power to do you any favors. That's what we need....”

“It's a crazy industry. I'm not into the partying, I'm a pretty healthy person.”

“Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organ...”

“I laid down my faith, Now life makes more sense to me, Traveling lighter”

“There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.”

“While I'm in L.A. I always make time for my favorite activity which is hiking. The trails in California are amazing, as they are always challenging, and I never get bored from all the beauti...”

“Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine, or to "image forth."”

“Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in our children and ultimately it's making a difference in our community.”

“It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.”

“There are no taking days off. There are no distractions. If I had that, I physically wouldn't be capable of going onstage and performing live theater. It's extremely demanding. I have to be...”

“Obama spent the first two years of his administration practicing political unilateral disarmament.”

“I made a record of montage sounds in '99 under the name Korena Pang, but it was never put out because it didn't do it for me.”

“I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up.”

“My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.”

“Airing the family's laundry can make people upset.”

“My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only t...”

“When I got to know I will be starring opposite Shah Rukh, I was speechless.”

“It seems natural to surround my fictional world with animals because my reality is full of them. When I'm sitting there conceiving a story, they just pop up.”

“Healthy populations of predatory crabs and fish protect the carbon in salt marshes, as they prevent herbivorous crabs and snails wiping out the plants that hold the marshes together.”

“All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.”

“I think of Paul Feig as the Scorsese of comedy. He's the best at what he does. I think people just trust everything that he's got to say.”

“One thing I love about being back is English rain. Looking out of the window now, it's raining, and the sky is dark; I love it. To me, those are reassuringly English things. I love it when i...”

“My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So that's how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer.”

“The 'Mahabharata' is a more complex and longer saga than the 'Ramayana,' which is like a fairy tale. It's much lighter and more fun, and at its heart, there's a cracking love story.”

“It's funny: most people who recognize me on the subway and stuff - it's much more they think of me as a funny guy. I get much more of people telling me how much I make them laugh, actually....”

“Chilean society is conservative, but U.S. society is puritanical.”

“I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a...”

“Reaganism as a political movement has enormous resources behind it and it seeks - through stagecraft and through a tremendous level of effort toward propaganda - to present an image of Reaga...”

“We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.”

“We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.”

“With his mendacity and increasingly virulent attacks on immigrants, Muslims, women, the press, the judiciary, the intelligence services, the F.B.I. - any group or institution that he finds t...”

“I have a bunch of concepts and ideas that I want to do but I have also been growing my production company in general and looking to branch out of projects that I am directing and producing.”

“I see kids and young adults walking the streets of L.A. with this enormous sense of entitlement, who seem to think that if they are basically good people and pay their bills, then the world...”

“Nothing could be more important for a child affected by Zika virus than to have continuity of care, seamlessly from before birth to after birth.”

“I'm a Capricorn and I'm mad loyal - mad loyal! - and I will always look for the good in people.”

“Tennis taught me to take chances, to take life as it comes. To hit every ball that comes to me no matter how hard it looks, to give it my best shot.”

“From the food to the Mardi Gras Indians to the brass bands and the second liners parading through the street, Jazz Fest presents New Orleans in one place.”

“The experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful. I just thought, I never want that to happen again.”

“When I had a baby, I didn't leave the second floor for six months. I nursed my babies. I was a full-time homemaker. I taught them all how to read before I let them go to school. So I gave th...”

“Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.”

“If ever you are to be visited by the Holy Ghost, you should make certain you're sitting beside a fireman.”

“From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and ma...”

“Consumerism is the reason Christmas has morphed into a hollow shopping ritual that leaves too many families with debt hangovers and an empty feeling inside.”

“The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world.”

“Saying and doing are two things.”

“Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.”