Every accepted public quote

“Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people? We draw out from other people our own thought. If, when you go out to organize, you go with a broad spirit, you will create and...”

“'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.”

“You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.”

“Leap, and the net will appear.”

“How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.”

“I could never concentrate on Sunday church services because I'd be concentrating on women's hats.”

“I hate the term 'work-life balance.' I think it's a setup, and it's trap for all of us.”

“Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS.”

“I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.”

“A lot of people don't like child actors.”

“If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's be...”

“A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.”

“No one saw the recession coming.”

“Don't go to the grave with life unused.”

“My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.”

“I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.”

“There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.”

“Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to think there's something objectively bringing us together in...”

“President Obama inherited a broken country mired in two wars, a financial crisis, a mortgage mess and more than we all probably even know about and has in my opinion brought us back from the...”

“You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.”

“I'm a competitive person. Business is a much more competitive sport than any real sport. It's 24x7x365. I'm a business adrenaline junky.”

“Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.”

“I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly generous. I've got self-imposed term...”

“I don't really want to just play the girlfriend or the love interest. I get so many scripts like that, and - not to moan, because I'm really fortunate - but I just look at those scripts, and...”

“When I started engineering proteins I didn't know how hard it would be.”

“I've played basketball all of my life, and I've had things happen on the court that you eventually have to move on from. It's part of some of the obstacles that you meet in trying to reach y...”

“All my comrades must continue to exert their efforts according to my 'Programme of National Reconstruction,' 'Outline of Reconstruction,' the 'Three Principles of the People,' and the 'Manif...”

“We're hardwired for connection. There's no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we're trying to hot-wire it.”

“I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren.”

“The world is in your hands, now use it.”

“Chipotle never lets me down. I feel like, in the middle of nowhere, Chipotle is still there, and my burrito bowl is still going to sustain me. So Chipotle, for convenience and reliability.”

“NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.”

“Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.”

“When I worked with Bill Nighy on 'Wrath of the Titans,' he said to me, 'There's one thing you can promise me, and that's never, ever, ever read your reviews.'”

“I was a kid who loved to read. I read everything I could get my hands on. I didn't have one favorite book. I had lots of favorite books: 'The Borrowers' by Mary Norton, 'Paddington' by Micha...”

“Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's mak...”

“I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.”

“The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.”

“We must make our world safer by rooting out the evil in our midst while still protecting the rights of people who mean no harm.”

“'Little Princess' was the first big movie that I did in America with big stages where we had kind of a different schedule to work. We had a great production designer, Bo Welch, and we had ti...”

“The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.”

“Let me do it. You tell me when you want it and where you want it to land, and I'll do it backwards and tell you when to take off.”

“I was brought up with a very strong value that you should always protect the small and the few against those who want to misuse their muscle and weight in order to get what they weren't supp...”

“Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'”

“I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a po...”

“The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.”

“A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.”

“I've sold all but one of my microphones, put away my mini-notebooks, stopped scouring the Internet for scraps of wisdom.”