Every accepted public quote

“During my time in high altitude astronomy, I became aware of workers having gender issues. Many years later I discovered that sex hormones were affected by high altitude exposures.”

“I'd say that, 99 percent of the time at Nevada, I knew what the coverage was and where I was probably going before the ball was snapped. It makes it very easy when I only had to read one per...”

“I think you have to take each movie for its own value. There will be those you'll roll your eyes over and others you can't wait to see. It all has to do with the intention. If someone's inte...”

“I've got a very short attention span, and this has been part of the reason I'm so kind of dumbfounded at the fact that I've still stayed with music. Nothing has ever stuck for me, and music'...”

“Choreographing a fight scene is telling a little story. You learn a lot about the characters involved.”

“A while back, when Dick & Barry & I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you *are* like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for potential partners, a 2 or 3 pag...”

“We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.”

“As the world's sole remaining super power and economic powerhouses, our nation's ability to be at the forefront of innovation and production has enabled unparalleled economic success of our...”

“People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling.”

“I was a shortstop in softball, and a lot of times I had collisions with base runners coming in, so I definitely have scars.”

“Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.”

“Virtual Piggy was created to provide a safe way for kids to shop online with parental approval, in recognition of growing digital world kids live in.”

“The origins of my career as a peace mediator can be found from my childhood years. I was born in the city of Viipuri, then still part of Finland. We lost Viipuri when the Soviet Union attack...”

“Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.”

“Marketers use big data profiling to predict who is about to get pregnant, who is likely to buy a new car, and who is about to change sexual orientations. That's how they know what ads to sen...”

“Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definitio...”

“The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremend...”

“Withdrawing federal funds to prevent radiological or biological terrorist attack - that doesn't just hurt Los Angeles: that hurts America.”

“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of getting out of one's self, and appreciating what...”

“I can't say that I ever abided nerd stereotypes: I was never alone or felt outcast.”

“Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let m...”

“Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.”

“It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about.”

“If after reading this book you come to my home and brutally murder me, I do not blame you.”

“When I auditioned for 'Animal House,' I had only done some plays at a local dinner theater in Virginia.”

“The first song that I had that went platinum was 'Keep Your Head Up,' which was a long time ago. Then, you get 'one-hit wonder' with that.”

“The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.”

“When your best players are really good guys, it's the best.”

“All spiritual things must have in them a childlike quality. The belief in immortality rests not very much on the hope of going on. Few of us want to do that, but we would like very much to b...”

“With 'Light,' I collaborated with a lot of different producers and musicians I respected, and we all wrote and worked on material which I then took to an old-school producer, David Kahne, an...”

“Well, actually, plucking my eyebrows is more of a hobby than a grooming tip.”

“Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.”

“I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.”

“I admire a lot of actors, but I don't covet people's careers.”

“The issue is sometimes when people are themselves, like, what if you suck, you know? There's a good chance you're not gonna resonate and not be relatable to people. You gotta be a goodhearte...”

“I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.”

“What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.”

“The decision to open up Bahrain to embrace all people indiscriminately was fostered in me ever since I was a child.”

“Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent to the fruits of their ideas. They should forgo exper...”

“The idea of a book that can make a change to your life, that can affect your perspective, is a beautiful and great ambition: one that Seneca, Nietzsche and Tolstoy would have sympathised wit...”

“Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.”

“The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - kn...”

“Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There are no yoga-achievement badges, no coloured belts like judo, so the male yoga expert n...”

“We want to see huge growth in this economy in small- and medium-sized businesses.”

“A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.”

“I'm a child of the '80s, so like everyone else, I love all those classic, formative movies - 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off,' 'Pretty in Pink,' 'Sixteen Candles,' 'Dirty Dancing,' etc., with 'St....”

“Loneliness seeks out metaphors not just for definition but for the companionship of resonance, the promise of kinship in comparison.”

“Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.”