Every accepted public quote

“I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.”

“I've had broken bones and cuts and dashes and tears from movies, but when I was five, my mom put the biscuits up high so we wouldn't be helping ourselves. So, one day I asked to stand up on...”

“As slavery died for the greater good of America, and the movement for equality sputtered to life, the white woman was on the cover of every American magazine. She was the dazzling jewel on e...”

“Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I...”

“There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.”

“Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.”

“Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.”

“Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish...”

“It's a very simple answer, how to get my abs so defined. I have a very healthy diet of a lot of laughter. If you laugh all the time, you're consistently flexing your abdominals all the time.”

“Charakter ist Schicksal. Historie ist Gott.”

“There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.”

“I think Paul Ryan would make a great speaker. And people like him are the kinds of people that we need.”

“Essentially prayer is based on a relationship. We don't converse freely with someone we don't know. We bare our souls and disclose our hidden secrets only to someone we trust.”

“Fashion is a way to transform yourself. By choosing your own silhouette and shape, you can constantly change who you are.”

“We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can...”

“I have been very lucky to have final cut in all my films; everything that is wrong in them is my fault.”

“I am a great believer in Luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.”

“The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself? The sky is NOT the limit. Beyond the universe is.”

“Active faith is having the wisdom to know that you can develop future knowledge to alleviate your currently incurable sickness.”

“As a personal beneficiary of the service that Amtrak provides and as someone who represents a congressional district that counts on safe, reliable rail service, I am a strong supporter of pr...”

“My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.”

“There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name.”

“It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it's just embarrassing.”

“If you see something wrong happening in the church, you can either do nothing, or you can do something. And I already tried nothing. I have shared these details because I feel a moral respon...”

“I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.”

“You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo, and saying, 'No mother would want that for her child, no matter ho...”

“People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.”

“The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipulated and the really extraordinary creati...”

“I used to dread going on 'Politically Incorrect' with 'up and coming' comedians. But at least on 'Politically Incorrect', there would be just one has-been or wannabe on the panel.”

“Elon Musk is a cool cookie.”

“There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.”

“Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.”

“There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.”

“I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.”

“As a kid, I was obsessed with 'Calvin and Hobbes' and 'Bone,' and I'm certain that I've unconsciously ripped off ideas from both, wholesale.”

“If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.”

“Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to fin...”

“I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice a...”

“Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.”

“My dad talks about the times when we'd play backyard cricket: If I got bowled out, I'd just refuse to let go of the bat and swing it at anyone who tried to take it away from me. I like to th...”

“If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims... Have we waterboarded anyone else?”

“Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod.”

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”

“I can't gather around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn't believe in God. I just don't - I don't have the energy for that, and so I... Agnostic separates me from the conduc...”

“The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.”

“We went from crop to crop, field to field. And my father had that army truck, a 1940s army truck from Fort Bliss, El Paso.”

“This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation...”

“My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.”