Every accepted public quote

“We have to educate our communities about the immigration system and dispel the myths that have been fed to us. Immigration isn't going to go away. A wall isn't going to 'solve' the issue.”

“Spanish Harlem is like every ghetto in America. There's every distraction possible. To make it up out of there is really a task itself.”

“I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.”

“I was going to do business studies in Newcastle because there were a lot of nightclubs. My father said if I went that route, he'd never speak to me again: credit where credit's due.”

“I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in th...”

“I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.”

“I'm an Aries and sort of a challenge to myself.”

“We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such disho...”

“God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.”

“That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, tha...”

“In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and radio in Canada. Nobody knows that - but now I've said it, haven't I? I'm strictly a shower...”

“Figuring out what you don't want is just as important as knowing what you do want!”

“There are many stages of grief.”

“The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.”

“The pro-life, pro-family Republicans are now pro-neonatal detention and deportation. It isn't enough to drive out the people not born here; now they want to drive out the ones that were.”

“I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.”

“If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You c...”

“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.”

“I think there's been a tendency to place me in what has been characterised as the 'moral centre' of the film. In films like 'The Ice Storm' and 'The Crucible' and 'Nixon,' that's the sort of...”

“For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.”

“Most credit cards provide some sort of protection against a defective purchase, and with gold or platinum cards, you'll often get double the manufacturer's warranty. You're also not immediat...”

“It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise.”

“In this wide world, I don't think that there's just one person for any of us. I think we look until we find one that feels right, and oftentimes, it works out just fine.”

“We have a huge immigration population in Sweden, but when I was younger, I grew up in a small town and, at one point, I was the only foreigner in my class. I really felt different, and I tho...”

“For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who.' From 1982 to 1989 I felt 'The Who' did not exist. I let the band go, in my heart. However, Roger Daltrey had other ideas. He...”

“I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life. Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner s...”

“My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would beco...”

“My purity manifests itself in countless ways, including an utter inability to sit idly when exposed to attacks on truth, reason, logic, and/or individual dignity.”

“Legally, many contractors are required to pay a prevailing wage. However, bad actors often find ways to get around this requirement.”

“There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”

“The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.”

“In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.”

“In the organization of any major sporting event or the planning of a building, long-term thinking is key.”

“I tend to like the most basic pieces with the perfect fit and fabric, like a simple tank.”

“Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.”

“I could smack her, punch her in the face, but then I see what she can't hide from me. I've seen it before-the desperation, the agony, the need to find a reason to go on, and the inability to...”

“Happiness is harmony of spirit with the soul.”

“Puff is more of a mentor rather than someone who's directly involved in my movement or helping me put my album together. It's not like me and him party together. He's definitely more of, lik...”

“Real education doesn't make your life easy. It complicates things and makes everything messy and disturbing. But the alternative, Elloren Gardner, is to live your life based on injustice and...”

“I think it is bad luck to put shoes on a table or walk under ladders.”

“People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.”

“I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.”

“Whether you want to do a letter-writing campaign or a march or start a social media hashtag - whatever it is - know that there are people out there that are thinking exactly like you're thin...”

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”

“I'm bothered when people don't understand that they have an obligation to use their best measure of devotion, of resources, to sacrifice for the common good.”

“... and while all people were bound together by the common space they shared, their journeys through time were all different, which meant that each person lived in a slightly different world...”

“For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.”

“I remember when I did my Enron film, my executive producers at the time felt very strongly that I should mock the Enron executives more viciously because everybody wanted that moment.”