Every accepted public quote

“If 'Party of Five' hadn't done well, it would have been a bunch of names involved in the demise. But if 'Time of Your Life' doesn't do well, it will be my name. You have to prepare for the w...”

“Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality...”

“Joan Crawford and Bette Davis are larger than life. They just are. They sucked all the oxygen out of a room: they're icons; they loom large in our imaginations. But the truth of the matter i...”

“No one wants to follow a pessimist... You can be skeptical, you can be realistic, but you can't be cynical. If your boss is Eeyore, do you want to work with someone like that? Oh, bother.”

“Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.”

“Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.”

“Their insanity was affecting my sanity until I found my antidote in art.”

“Woodstock - I didn't see anybody play, except when I was standing backstage waiting to go on, because it was so muddy. And the weather was so horrible, you literally couldn't get there excep...”

“I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.”

“Timidity is static, expressiveness is progression.”

“The '90s was a great period for the fans that were collecting at that time. Comics sold at an all-time high and reached the largest audience in our modern age, and the energy in our business...”

“Free men have arms; slaves do not.”

“How great in number are the little minded men.”

“For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the b...”

“I think malware is a significant threat because the mitigation, like antivirus software, hasn't evolved to a point to really mitigate the risk to a reasonable degree.”

“I wish like to be your favorite song. that's I'll be there when you feel sad, cheerful, romantic, sensual, magic or tragic.”

“Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.”

“As Attorney General of Alabama, I have never hesitated to stand up to the EPA before when it was wrong.”

“I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a complete...”

“Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.”

“There is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.”

“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”

“I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.”

“The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.”

“Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And for the hardest questions of all, there may be no answer - except faith.”

“But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing fo...”

“When you buy a company at an auction, and you are committing yourself to pay some $300 million to the state because it was a privatization deal, and you don't pay it, is it OK? Isn't it some...”

“Mrs. Palin is history in a dress. And her script is straight out of Hollywood - like those teen movies with the cliched ending featuring the female valedictorian delivering the speech of a l...”

“I think modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.”

“Adoption: Every Child a Wanted Child... There are 143 million orphans in the world waiting for someone to want them. Could one of them be waiting for you?”

“We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.”

“I believe in me more than anything in this world.”

“It's not a good idea to match your shoes with a bag too stringently. Go for subtle similarity.”

“In my personal opinion, Russia is no less democratic than it used to be. It is a democratic country. It is democratic enough.”

“I come from a very common family background in a small village, and getting an opportunity from home state to represent the state for an important and sensitive work is an honour for me and...”

“Ironically, for the mega-rich, recession brings with it the ability to live well at a lower cost and with less of a hassle.”

“Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.”

“Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overfl...”

“The first campaign that I recall was with Kate Moss and Marky Mark. Probably the most iconic jeans ad ever.”

“I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's nobody like him. He's unique, and just... way out cool.”

“The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.”

“I like to look like a tomboy during the day and then a pin-up girl at night.”

“I always assumed I could never make a living out of literary fiction, and I was right. When I did try, it took four years before being published.”

“Appreciate each day, one another, and the vessels God may use to acknowledge our individual and collective skill sets.”

“We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.”

“Superstition is the poetry of life.”

“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”

“The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.”