Every accepted public quote

“It's the only pawnshop I know that's got real Picassos hanging on the wall. I have Salvador Dalis on the wall. I have LeRoy Neimans.”

“My background is in social work and psychotherapy.”

“I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.”

“The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it.”

“If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.”

“Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.”

“How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on he...”

“When I see a woman who is all gaunt and emaciated, I don't think she's beautiful. She reminds me of a Chihuahua that's freezing and shaking.”

“I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-...”

“For so long, I've been a little misunderstood as a person. You know, I do have this strut about me. I don't know if it's the Jersey girl in me. I like to think of myself as an egg, you know?...”

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.”

“My eccentricity became direction.”

“I'm a part of the no-tight-jeans coalition.”

“Epic stories, especially 'quest narratives' like 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,' are brilliant structures for storytelling. The quest lends itself to episodic storytelling.”

“Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.”

“If drummers are 'anti-solo,' that's up to them. They're musicians, and they can play whatever they want. But my inspirations early on were people like Buddy Rich, seeing him on 'The Tonight...”

“Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether it's terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate change - huge things that affect us deeply, and yet thing...”

“This Obamacare program has Obama's name on it. He lied to people for three years about this program. People trusted him. People believed what he told them. They believed that he was going to...”

“I don't like to camp. Early on, Mars is going to be camping. I think there are people far better suited to do that than me. But when the first Holiday Inn Express shows up, maybe I'll go.”

“Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.”

“I want to do voiceover for animation, so I am looking to do something along those lines. So, my agent is looking for something in that area, and I think that would be a lot of fun.”

“To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.”

“Coach Reid is a great teacher. He understands how people learn, understands how to get people to get the concept of what the play is and why we're running it.”

“If you're going to write about rap music and hip-hop, and you don't love it, then we don't need your opinion, and we revoke your opinion.”

“There was an infinitesimal pause while he watched her face, as though he half expected her to recognise it, before he went on, 'My friends call me Thorn,' and gave her a smile of such devast...”

“To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.”

“She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.”

“Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.”

“He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours.”

“People don't realize how amazing elephants are.”

“You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no.”

“Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

“The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals - the possibilities are nearl...”

“Being in sync with life allows you to experience human activities naturally, as each unfolds, and not how the mind construes the experiences.”

“I never ran for student council or class president or any of that stuff. I didn't hang out with those people. It was just a different universe from the one I inhabited.”

“As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.”

“Every day is a good day. There is something to learn, care and celebrate.”

“I've probably done myself a disservice as a brand because the movies I've made. They've all been completely different.”

“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.”

“What does it mean to be an oncologist? It means that you get to sit in at a moment of another person's life that is so hyper-acute, and not just because they're medically ill. It's also a mo...”

“The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It's an ocean surrounded by land, basically.”

“The best do sweat the small stuff. They get the seemingly insignificant details right. They have the discipline to shine at the baby things which they get gives birth to spectacular giant th...”

“Because . . . most of us think that the point is something to do with work, or kids, or family, or whatever. But you don't have any of that. There's nothing between you and despair, and you...”

“I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor a...”

“I follow Texas A&M very closely, having worked with the SEC Network.”

“The first cities to create friction-free enterprise zones will get a lot of entrepreneurial traction.”

“I hardly ever see new plays. They don't have the audacity and daring that they used to.”

“There's no such thing as median income; there's a curve, and it really matters what side of the curve you're on. There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.”