Every accepted public quote

“My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.”

“There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.”

“Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life.”

“I'm someone who started in the theater and really couldn't stand repeating the show. My favorite part of acting is the five or six weeks of rehearsal that you get. I like doing previews; I l...”

“The memory of my father speaks, not of death, but of a undying, invincible spirit.”

“When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.”

“When I go in the studio, I put myself into a place where I'm feeling something I want to portray, which is often being sad, lonely. But as soon as I'm starting to make something, it's when I...”

“You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's diaper, forgive your boss's temper, tolerate your spo...”

“Expanding a failing, big-government program that reduces flexibility for the states and traps generations of Americans in dependency is not consistent with the kind of conservative solutions...”

“I remember ordering records out of the Dischord catalog in the '80s, and there would be a handwritten note.”

“I was always interested in mixing experimentation with pop music, and Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream - we were all doing it at the same time, just very isolated from each other, all i...”

“Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.”

“Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been a legislator. That's what I do. I think it's an honorable profession - if you're hon...”

“I love hearing positive things; somewhere, way deep down, I'm sure I'm an egomaniac. I guess all performers are, in a way.”

“The Bible is not an antiquated text. The scriptures are the text that will lead us into the future.”

“How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace.”

“The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.”

“'Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth...”

“I think I've committed the one really bad English crime, which is I've risen above my station. I was supposed to be a pop star, and suddenly I'm claiming that I'm an artist of some kind.”

“I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a...”

“I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at th...”

“Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running, fitness, training, motorsports - is all about functionality, where...”

“There are certain battles that you pick. When they're not worth picking, they're laughable stories.”

“Having the gastric sleeve procedure and losing 120 pounds, it was a huge difference in how I look in such a short amount of time. It really garnered all the attention.”

“The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.”

“If you aren't going to make your revenue plan, it's unlikely you'll make your EBITDA or Net Income plan. You don't even have to get complicated and look at Gross Margin or more derivative me...”

“Until I was about 13, Manhattan had been a world seen from its edges.”

“I am one with the soil, the sea, the sky, and of course, The Cosmos.”

“I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.”

“I'd say that 'Tree of Life' is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film.”

“There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.”

“We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot.”

“I am someone that is very hard to handle. I'm very picante, intense... Sometimes I'm very outgoing and spontaneous and super hyper. Latinas, we love to touch each other - like, cuddle. That'...”

“What you have with Mr. Trump is you have a clear leader, a person who - he said it best - is not going to be toyed with.”

“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.”

“It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.”

“A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.”

“The tattoo that means the most to me would probably be my Chinese symbol on my neck. It means love - I got it on Mother's Day.”

“I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I...”

“Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of diffe...”

“Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, s...”

“No other action provides me with as much fulfilment of faith than when I look up at the stars and wonders of all there is beyond our world.”

“There's been an incredible censorship in America and throughout the world, but particularly in America where students aren't even allowed to critically think about evolution, the issue of or...”

“I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaini...”

“The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.”

“As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.”

“Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.”

“Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.”