Every accepted public quote

“I left 'Saturday Night Live' without a film to go to, and I'd filmed 'Old School' while I was in my last season of the show, and that hadn't come out yet. I was a free agent, in a way, but I...”

“Now when I came to go up to operations, I went down to this patient's room and got down on my knees at the foot of the bed and earnestly asked the Lord to help us and to help me.”

“Into this pour the purified juice: and put it into a pan of water come almost to a boil and continue nearly in the state of boiling until the juice is found to be the consistency of a thick...”

“I always loved hip-hop, being a black little kid. I always used to freestyle on the bus when I was young. It was always a part of my life.”

“O, had I but followed the arts!”

“For all founders, going public is a momentous milestone that has to be experienced to be fully understood. It is the culmination of years of hard work and personal sacrifice.”

“I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division.”

“That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.”

“I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston.”

“We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really...”

“In good company one must never want to be entirely and solely right, which is what all pure logic wants [...].”

“I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospe...”

“I started listening to Sufi music when I was 21.”

“I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.”

“There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate...”

“This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.”

“Our rules need to keep pace with current technology so that Americans who use hearing aids can easily use phones.”

“The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.”

“If you're asking if my breasts are natural, yes, this is how I've looked since I was 13 years old.”

“Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.”

“I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.”

“As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a si...”

“Democrats should be focused on which way we can help the most people in this country, and Republicans should be focused on how to do that in the most fiscally responsible manner possible.”

“God tells me how he wants the music played - and you get in his way.”

“Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.”

“Male writers don't want to be judged in the room. They want to be able to scarf an entire bag of potato chips while cracking fart jokes and making lewd comments without fear of feminine disa...”

“I came from a working class family. We lived in a prefab. We had nothing, but we had everything. I was out of the house at 12 to live with my grandmother, who was on her own, and I was expec...”

“Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?”

“I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. Martin Luther King spoke, and I remember the thrill I felt when we were introduced to him....”

“We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.”

“Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .”

“I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.”

“My mom's a social worker, and my dad works in non-profit organisations.”

“If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IM...”

“Anybody who comes along and wants to sell a wrestling show, guess who you are not gonna sell it to? You are not going to sell it to FOX and any of its affiliates, and,oh, by the way, you are...”

“I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.”

“It's not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.”

“When we are in possession, tactically, he is the best coach in the world for me. He works hard, watches a lot of games, and prepares us really well. Guardiola has the feeling for gaping spac...”

“I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect...”

“I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for our in...”

“Somebody called me a homophobe. I'm not homophobic.”

“The 'New York Daily News' called me the most reviled athlete ever in sports history in New York. I don't listen to them.”

“The water is alive. It is alive. If we could get a mask and fins and drop down off these docks, we'd see snook and redfish and probably goliath grouper. And it's an amazing world unto itself...”

“A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.”

“I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.”

“And then 'Wanderlust,' Ken Marino and David Wain wrote the funniest - they're amazing. That was one of my most favorite creative experiences; we're all up at that commune, a small group of p...”

“I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.”

“There are a lot of actors that I really love to watch, actors who I have fun watching - I think Johnny Depp is phenomenal. But I wouldn't want that career as much as I'd like a career like T...”