Every accepted public quote

“My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.”

“Driving a steamroller over an old trumpet or a teaspoon is no more destructive than taking a chisel to a lump of marble already torn from the landscape. But people don't see it that way beca...”

“Freak diets I don't think work. It's control.”

“I've always been really nationalistic, and I had a brother killed in Korea. And I think the 'Star Spangled Banner,' even today - and I've heard it a heckuva lot of times, OK - has always bee...”

“Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'l...”

“I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.”

“One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.”

“I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health.”

“The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.”

“The most horrifying thing I ever did was work as a steward on an airplane. I wanted to get hired by United. I thought, 'With my languages, this will be amazing; I will work in First Class.'...”

“Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we've seen, they just won't do the job. T...”

“Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip a...”

“In the early '90s, Too Short was like one of the first dudes who kinda discovered Lil Jon. So I always used to see him at concerts and we'd pow wow - a good dude, you know?”

“Time will sweep us away, but our words will remain long after we settle into the dark.”

“Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.”

“The belief in their actions can mend constellations. The ambition in their thirst for knowledge can both create and destroy.”

“When there's a setback, someone with a fixed mindset will start thinking, 'Maybe I don't have what it takes?' They may get defensive and give up. A hallmark of a successful person is that th...”

“I've had a long, long road with lots of ups and downs. But that's all behind me now.”

“I don't care much for diamonds,' Nicola had told him. 'Have you ever been offered any?' he had asked, and he had been making fun of her, his face mocking. 'Not that I can remember,' Nicola h...”

“Peace begins when expectations end.”

“Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.”

“There's nothing wrong with being a cop. There's nothing wrong with being a white person. It's about where your heart is... We've got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.”

“I cook a mean Sunday lunch. My idea of Heaven is a lunch outside on a beautifully sunny Sunday afternoon. It's the time to gather everyone together.”

“I think it's essential to engage with your followers. I always used to email bloggers, and no one ever replied, so I try to reply to every comment and question, and although sometimes I regr...”

“At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-rel...”

“There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one.”

“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.”

“If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.”

“If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not funda...”

“I'm a mash-up of everyone. My influences would be Michael Jackson, Brandy, Aaliyah - those types of people. So if you can imagine them - and with me taking them, and then putting my own twis...”

“If a student commits suicide because they couldn't bear the pressure of education, it's not a sign of their weakness, but that of the system of education.”

“I have new bodyguards ever since I got a TV show. I didn't know, but it's a lot like becoming president. They tell you every single secret, like who shot JFK. When you have a TV show, they n...”

“You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.”

“We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.”

“All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into wh...”

“I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.”

“Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.”

“I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.”

“I learned that true forgiveness includes total self-acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again.”

“Actually, because of new technologies, my full studio is on my laptop. And I have a little keyboard in my bag. I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio,...”

“Well, any time I'm preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, it's as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are muscles that support the vocal cords which are just I believe cart...”

“If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own probl...”

“Green Arrow was a very complicated character to take on because he has archaic weaponry. Catwoman, I think is more of a simple archetype to grasp, so it will be about nuance. But I think you...”

“The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.”

“Emptiness and loneliness consume you. Physically you're alive, but mentally you're dying inside.”

“You can't take anything personally in this business. Follow your dreams, but there is a lot of criticism. You have to brush it off. Everybody is looking for something different.”

“Free enterprise cannot only make us better off financially, it can make us better people.”

“I was born three weeks early, and I kept being ill. From the age of zero to four, I was always in hospital having tests done, but they couldn't find out what was wrong. They discovered that...”