Every accepted public quote

“Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our g...”

“I was having a nice anonymous little time as a writer. I really was on the writer path. I was sort of minding my own business. I loved making a living in music.”

“The unsaid is a powerful tool. It invites the reader into the narrative, filling in gaps, interpreting silences and half-finished sentences, and seeing the hidden fear in someone's eye.”

“Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.”

“I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 90...”

“One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow.”

“If you're going to go into space, you have to have an objective, a mission. Where do you want to go? Earth orbit? The moon? Mars? What's the technology to get there? You develop the technolo...”

“It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.”

“Technical people tend to be more 'techie,' and management people are more 'managerial.'”

“We need to privatize whenever possible.”

“The serious professional skateboarder doesn't have a job. They get paid enough not to.”

“In fourth grade, I was interested in all areas of science. I particularly loved learning about how the earth was created.”

“I feel like, as an industry, we've gotten too dependent on source material originated in other mediums.”

“Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.”

“The record labels used to spend money on advertising, and social media has replaced that entirely - it's putting magazines out of business. It's put big companies into completely reinventing...”

“My favorite characters are always the unpredictable ones, and with Domino, you literally never know which way the dice are going to roll.”

“I started writing 'Southern Baptist Sissies' right after I had written the screenplay for 'Sordid Lives', so that's when I started on a darker path in telling the truth about my journey in t...”

“Short of hiring a new staff, consider giving subpar workers a chance to improve. Tell them why they're not measuring up and give them a set amount of time to make specific improvements.”

“I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.”

“It used to be every single time you got the rebound, you handed it to the point guard, or you outlet it to the point guard, or everyone cleared, and you waited until the point guard brought...”

“I think that the equator could act as a great equalizer for all life on Earth, celebrated as the great energy belt of the planet. If all our energy grids were synchronized, the light side of...”

“Beyonce was very shy around children, and one of the reasons we put her in dance classes was so she'd have some little kid friends.”

“The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand...”

“I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist!”

“Boxing gave me the discipline and took me away from the streets and away from the corners. It changed my life, you know. Boxing dragging me away from all the bad potential I had.”

“The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and cu...”

“Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.”

“The furthest I have even thrown the ball was 85 yards. But I had a little wind at my back, so I don't claim that one.”

“I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.”

“When I was 16, 17 years old, I became aware of music coming out of Olympia, Wash., which is the state capitol and about an hour south of Seattle. And there were bands like Bikini Kill and Br...”

“For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.”

“Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.”

“It's a fun job, but it's stressful because you have to be funny. You have to have punch lines and captions. Be funny now! And if you're not inspired, they don't care - be funny now! They hav...”

“There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.”

“It's a brave new world.”

“Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.”

“I want my clothes to be alluring but not uber sexy.”

“Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that opti...”

“I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nomin...”

“Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers.”

“The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.”

“It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a 'remedy', more and more security...”

“Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.”

“Ripping children away from their parents has a particular shameful history, both in this country and around the world.”

“In politics, a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.”

“We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.”

“I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.”

“I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.”