Every accepted public quote

“One thing I've learned from years of working in WWE is that the road to WrestleMania always starts at the Royal Rumble. That's why it's so important to win the Rumble: because it's your chan...”

“As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.”

“To be creative, first we must be generous. Then we must have a quiet, indomitable belief in our own worth.”

“It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unplea...”

“I just love what I do. I'm not worried about any burnout.”

“People ask if I feel pigeon-holed by always doing the same kind of humorous role. But my tool has always been humor because it's the most entertaining way to put any ideology across, and it'...”

“We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.”

“In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team...”

“One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My a...”

“If I get to the end of my life, and people say, 'He was in 'Cold Feet,' well, I was, and it was great. I thought the fourth series wasn't great. I thought there were weak episodes throughout...”

“In the long revolt against inherited forms that has by now become the narrative of 20th-century poetry in English, no poet was more flamboyant or more recognizable in his iconoclasm than Cum...”

“I can laugh on cue, and it sounds real. People laugh with me.”

“My fantasy is to break up the big banks. I wish we would end 'too big to fail' in our banking system.”

“Out of culinary school, I worked as a pastry cook in amazing restaurants for years. I ended up leaving the pastry cook scene because, though I loved the industry, the restaurants and the che...”

“It's awkward going back up to Edinburgh to see my old friends, because I'm not on the same wavelength.”

“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.”

“God does arithmetic.”

“With a traditional human resources system, we would work with a company, select the product, customise and implement the system, and our job would be over. Some companies are changing and as...”

“Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love.”

“Wisdom is locked inside of an insane mind.”

“I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't want to be a decrepit old lady.”

“...knowledge imprisons you. You cannot escape it. What you know you cannot unknow. That's why knowledge is dangerous. Learning will redefine your world, irreversibly.”

“It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me.”

“The dictionary is like a time capsule of all of human thinking ever since words began to be written down. And exploring where words have come from can increase your understanding of the word...”

“Your every extraordinary success immediately becomes an extraordinary motivation for others! He who raises himself also raises others!”

“For thousands of years, we have gained the power to control the world outside us but not to control the world inside. You could stop a river from flowing, but you could not stop your body fr...”

“God cannot alter the past, though historians can.”

“No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important if she wasn't just writing about romantic relationships.”

“Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?”

“Maybe it's my Catholic upbringing - I grew up thinking that Armageddon was just around the corner - now I know it is, with global warming and all. I can keep it at bay by doing the work. It'...”

“There was never a day at West Point where I didn't ask myself, 'Where would I put the camera?'”

“At the point we finished 'Abbey Road,' the game was up. We all accepted that.”

“In the gigantic and worthwhile struggle for achieving the country's prosperity and people's happiness, our young people have been educated in a revolutionary way and trained spiritually and...”

“Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.”

“I wish reporters were more in tune to the difference between the Asian experience and the Asian-American experience. I think often they lump the two together and think that when I talk about...”

“A lot of people want Trump to be impeached. I do not. Because just when you think Trump is awful, you remember Mike Pence. Mike Pence is what happens when Anderson Cooper isn't gay.”

“Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.”

“It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a...”

“I'm a person who takes baths in the dark, alone.”

“What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They'...”

“I don't think of 'heretic' as a pejorative term - necessarily.”

“You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mothe...”

“Poets soar on the wings of hope.”

“I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.”

“I just want my work to be part of the elemental world.”

“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”

“Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies a...”

“You can never know who you really are or what you can do until you discover yourself”