Every accepted public quote

“Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.”

“We were a damn trap set to each other.”

“I believe all children deserve quality health care.”

“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”

“You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no good at singing a song unless it has a good lyric.”

“Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or un...”

“My depth has no depth”

“I've always been a fan of books that create an interesting blend of fact and fiction - whether it's Norman Mailer, or 'The Short Timers,' or 'In Cold Blood.' I'm a fan of that genre.”

“Knowledge is your operating system.”

“If you knew better, you'd do better. If you didn't...you didn't.”

“People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.”

“Once your computer is pretending to be a neural net, you get it to be able to do a particular task by just showing it a whole lot of examples.”

“We must surrender ourselves to God, not our assignments.”

“Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.”

“Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they're capable of and the world as it should be...”

“I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.”

“We are closest to real knowledge when we're closest to understanding our own bodies.”

“My mantra has always been to have zero regrets in life. Everything I do at one speed, I go all-out.”

“I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40 different music pieces blend with the action to make you feel more a part of the who...”

“Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividing line - at least for the Western World - between the comfortable security of the 19th ce...”

“According to the Law of Biogenesis, life arises only from preexisting life.”

“Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very,...”

“She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meeting hers in the dark. Someone who would wait with an umbrella to walk her home in the rain,...”

“I try to grow my management team as entrepreneurs, make the structure decentralized.”

“As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from.”

“If you're not happy before you're successful, you're going to be miserable when you do become successful because all your problems just get magnified.”

“My speeding offences (whether caught or not) are always in situations where the speed limit is 30, but I think it's 40. And I'm never doing 40, always a careful 37.”

“I love the practicality of a good car. You know what I mean? And when I say 'practicality,' I mean the complete practicality of a Ferrari 458, a wonderfully fantastic every day car.”

“The main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence.”

“I love wearing a lot of color, and I am majorly into scarves. I'm the Beau Brummell of Fleetwood Mac, no doubt.”

“I got a lot of love for NBC, Tom Brokaw. He did a lot for me, and I appreciate him, and I owe a lot to him for that.”

“For 20 years I've been screaming at these guitar companies, saying, 'It's abnormal to put your arm around an acoustic guitar that is about 6 to 8 inches deep.' Your arm reaches over, and you...”

“I always wanted to play festivals more than anything in Scotland.”

“Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.”

“Jessica Battilana has been my kindred cooking spirit for more than 10 years. Our careers as cooks and writers have taken us through the same Bay Area restaurants, bakeries, magazines, and ne...”

“After 40 years of not playing, I admit I'm totally in love with my guitar. It's a Froggy Bottom acoustic steel string guitar. All I have to do is hit a couple of clean chords and the endorph...”

“People in the North are really taciturn and reticent, and they don't really like to talk about the past.”

“There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.”

“Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted...”

“There has to be an element of danger, or at least an element of intrigue, for a band to be interesting.”

“Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.”

“CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good, smart people at those networks, and even occasionally a blind pig finds an acorn.”

“Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor...”

“I was very lucky to hear the story of Harvey Milk, it was life-saving for me. I wanted to share it in case it helped others, but the story of one gay man isn't going to do it.”

“In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.”

“The key to personal style is understanding your individual beauty enough to know which looks will work for you and which probably won't.”

“I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.”

“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage”