Every accepted public quote

“I have never planned my career. I chose those films with which I could relate myself. But if given a chance, I would love to do the kind of roles Meryl Streep has done.”

“Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow an...”

“A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.”

“I'm counting every silver lining I can get.”

“Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience.”

“Startups should be - if you graph their financial performance, it should be what's called a J curve. You start out at zero. you're not making any money; you're not losing any money.”

“Even the idea of people paying to hear me shouting into a microphone for an hour is alien to me - and I hope it always will be.”

“We need fresh, new leadership with bold ideas and a new approach to get more people back to work with quality jobs and restored dignity in the lives of our Utahns.”

“George Bush is a catastrophe for the world. And a dream for Bin Laden.”

“We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.”

“It's taken me all this time, all this loss, to realize what really matters is now.”

“My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico...”

“Our actions - and inaction - touch people we may never know and never meet across the globe.”

“The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.”

“A boot-camp class that combines upper- and lower-body moves - like walking lunges and push-ups - gets the heart rate up quickly, burning fat and calories and toning muscles in a time-efficie...”

“It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.”

“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”

“I believe - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.”

“If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction”

“New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.”

“As a 17-year-old, I remember positively dreading dance sequences. I would come to shoots, quaking with nervousness at the idea of making other artistes do retakes due to my mistakes.”

“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can, there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.”

“One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever...”

“Early in my modeling career, when I was a teenager, I really took care of my skin. I didn't get too much sun exposure, and I moisturized.”

“There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can address in pop music is somewhat restricted. It just does...”

“On our early demos, I was really frustrated with my recorded sound. I'd tell my dad, 'Dude, I want more 'cut' on my guitar - I want more treble.' And he'd say, 'Now, son, you don't want that...”

“I didn't have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I'll always remember and be inspired by the remarkable friendship I had with Connie Bush, an outstanding Indigenous leader fro...”

“I will always do music, and now - with where the world is going with social media and people dropping stuff for free and doing this and doing that - there's no excuse.”

“The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying to keep it as close to slavery as they can without violating th...”

“As a rule, from what I've observed, the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just re...”

“People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.”

“Americans are in need of an all-of-the-above energy approach, and when you think about all-of-the-above, you think about wind, solar, hydrogen, think about all those groovy technologies I re...”

“I always think of the good comebacks on the car ride home.”

“The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.”

“I was the best man at the wedding. So why is she marrying him?”

“Democratic candidates who run from President Obama in red states where he is unpopular are making a big mistake. Their holding Obama at arm's length deprives voters of a clear choice at the...”

“It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.”

“If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.”

“My bees cover one thousand square miles of land that I do not own in their foraging flights, flying from flower to flower for which I pay no rent, stealing nectar but pollinating plants in r...”

“I've watched women being hideously unattractive, personality-wise and physically, all the time. But these women never end up on screen.”

“I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.”

“Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.”

“I'm not really a confrontational person.”

“You shouldn't vent and open up to your husband, your boyfriend, your friend, because they're not professionals; they don't know the right thing to say to you, and putting them in that positi...”

“I would delete Donald Trump. I would delete Hillary Clinton. I would delete the man who was responsible for Brexit.”

“I'd watch the news with my dad, and he'd quietly mock the anchors. An anchorman might say, 'Police are searching for...' and my dad would say in the anchorman's voice, 'the man who gave me t...”

“Pleasure is not pleasant unless it cost dear.”

“I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.”