Every accepted public quote

“Things look especially bleak for common killers such as diabetes and heart disease. Those ailments clearly have a genetic component. But when scientists survey genes looking for which mutati...”

“I fall asleep Call it deep while all is well be- Cause my life seems like a freestyle mean- While asleep on the couch I dream it's a written piece and now The symphony's sounding Shouting ou...”

“With regard to robots, in the early days of robots people said, 'Oh, let's build a robot' and what's the first thought? You make a robot look like a human and do human things. That's so 1950...”

“I think Sharon is anti-Israeli because it's in the interest of Israel to understand the problems of the other side.”

“In terms of behaving in a civic way, I feel my behavior is always exemplary.”

“It's hunger. It's homelessness, often. It's underfunded, under-resourced schools. It's abuse beyond the chilling. It's having overwhelmed parents and caregivers. Those are the things that yo...”

“Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.”

“I always play with a very high ponytail so that my hair doesn't bother me.”

“I have from time to time been a double A or triple A personality. I'm not anymore. I'm more lenient on myself.”

“Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake...”

“Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.”

“Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.”

“An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.”

“Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.”

“There's no success without sacrifice.”

“What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edific...”

“My life has been going in ways I never could have dreamed of - doing the closing celebration for the Olympic Games and being appointed the creative chair for jazz at the L.A. Philharmonic. S...”

“On NAFTA, the Canadian Parliament... is united. We have our partisan differences. When we hold the government to account, as is our role in our parliamentary system, we will absolutely point...”

“After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and that was true until after World War II. But middle-class white...”

“Ivory Coast, even though I told them no at first, they still had the belief in me and still wanted me because they knew what I could do for the team.”

“You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.”

“I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.”

“At school I was a disaster, but when I would design, I could feel a sense of pride. I've always designed, and I would literally design everything I'd see: cars, bikes, motorcycles - everythi...”

“If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.”

“Day 1, when I was drafted to the Toronto Raptors, they had this stigma on them: Every guy leaves. Nobody wants to be here. Superstars, nobody wants to play in Canada. From Day 1, my whole mi...”

“If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.”

“Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have b...”

“I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.”

“An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.”

“I kind of joke that creating franchises is a lot like directing pilot episodes of TV series. You set a look and feel and kind of pass it on.”

“There's always a lesson to be learnt from adversity.”

“Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.”

“All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.”

“One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.”

“For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...”

“If a police officer is looking for a criminal, he or she might stop a number of people in that particular area and ask to see their driver's license. No one bellyaches about civil rights or...”

“I believe the world economy will crash when Russia or China moves to a gold-backed currency. They know that when this thing blows, the old law returns: he with most gold makes the rules.”

“It's not like we set out to antagonize the audience in any way. We're just presenting our music; it's really much more innocent.”

“The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind.”

“We are all born like Catholics . . . in limbo, without religion.”

“You know that first love that leaves you? You never forget that, especially if you're a songwriter. I must have gotten nine songs out of that girl.”

“I'm a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it's not going to upset her.”

“You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.”

“Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.”

“Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.”

“When politicians seek to restrict political speech, it is invariably to protect their own incumbency and avoid having to defend their policies in the marketplace of ideas.”

“Get ready for 'Les Mis 2'... I'm playing 'Fat Cosette.'”

“If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 p...”