Every accepted public quote

“The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.”

“We pledge to you that we will create jobs. End economic uncertainty and make America more competitive. We will cut Washington wasteful spending and reduce the size of government. And we will...”

“I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.”

“Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.”

“Perhaps most important for nomads was the belief in the symbiosis that existed between wolf and humans on the steppe. Wolves were an integral part of keeping the balance of nature, ensuring...”

“Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.”

“Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.”

“I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.”

“I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an inc...”

“A particular modern problem is that megalomania, especially when it involves real estate development, is the disturbance of many faceless men. And a faceless man is a difficult enemy.”

“Sometimes I'll work in America, sometimes I'll work in England. What's important is fulfilment. I just want to tell stories.”

“LXXIX When I die, I want your hands on my eyes. I want the light and wheat of your beloved hands to pass their freshness over me once moreL I want to feel the softness that changed my destin...”

“They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.”

“Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath...”

“The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant. One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant, because he knows that the body is nothing.”

“I tried a Les Paul when I was a lot younger. I tried the Les Paul, and because of the weight of the thing, it nearly dislocated my hip.”

“I look forward to working with the White House in areas like infrastructure, where President Trump says he wants to spend a trillion dollars. Great - we'd love to start right here in Los Ang...”

“We're so surrounded by so much of this marketing and just being told on a regular basis that you have to like this, you will go here, you want this. I found that to me that fit perfectly int...”

“I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.”

“I'm going to make the music I make regardless and it's always going to be driven by rhythm and blues and hopefully it becomes popular. But I don't cater to, like, 'OK, I want to make music t...”

“Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.”

“I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantas...”

“God has placed within each of us an immeasurable, unique gift. It is our duty to live that out to the full and to encourage one another with gusto.”

“In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou know not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.”

“Kardashian Kollection for Lipsy will have some amazing standout pieces like a full-lace jumper and metallic sequin jackets.”

“Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedr...”

“Trouble shared is trouble halved.”

“Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about politics, but we gaze upon innovation with rapturous...”

“I had such a broad array of classes, in improvising, in clowning, in Shakespeare. It was so great to just be inundated with all that.”

“We are not trying to reinvent the wheel. Sometimes it goes well, sometimes you have your off days. We have a way of going about things. Basically we are positive people trying to improve pla...”

“What I see is not me, I am the one who sees! The Body and Mind may suffer, but that is not me!”

“If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.”

“I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profe...”

“You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is as...”

“You should never surrender, never give up.”

“If you change because of fame, that's not the right thing. But if you change because of growth, that's normal... The whole fame thing hasn't hit me. And I hope it kind of doesn't.”

“Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.”

“A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.”

“You don't need a specialty lame (French for 'blade') to make professional-level bread at home, but it certainly helps in creating those telltale slash marks. You need a truly razor-sharp edg...”

“I get egotistical about things where I can do something well - for example, my singing. Most other things, I don't have the wherewithal to back it up.”

“I was the black atheist kid in the all-white Catholic school run by nuns.”

“What is poor? We had food. We dressed well. We didn't have a lot, but what we had fit, and it was always neat.”

“In Britain, we have this attitude that people are one-hit wonders. If it proves that way, I'd rather have had that one hit than not at all.”

“If I'm not tasting wine and food... I'm thinking about wine and food. If I'm not thinking about wine and food... I'm writing about wine and food.”

“I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.”

“From the engineer to the producer, all of these roles are critical to creating a song.”

“Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical and technical. It's everything.”

“When I approach a band, I want to respect them and be respectful of their music. I'm not gonna say, 'Look, you guys are real hot, so we'll stick you in the movie, and we'll get it in all the...”