Every accepted public quote

“'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and th...”

“I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig.”

“If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expensive real estate in the world. It's the American Monopoly board.”

“Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.”

“Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which is not simply of the brain, which does not calculate, but feels and thinks.”

“This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.”

“Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.”

“Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.”

“Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.”

“I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.”

“Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.”

“Music really transcends languages, and it means so much.”

“To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott. What you hear is definitely the sum...”

“Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.”

“And imagine where we'd be today if President Franklin Roosevelt had owned apartment buildings in Frankfurt and Berlin. You know, some of us might be speaking German.”

“Denim comes and goes into style often, but my Levi's have longevity. They will never be just a fad.”

“First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.”

“At the end of the day, my bread and butter comes from films, so I have to work in films that may not have a great script, but give me a fat pay cheque.”

“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”

“I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.”

“Out of nowhere, they made an interim belt and had Lee fight Ferguson. This is very odd for me; what went on there? You know. I don't know what went on there.”

“My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.”

“New York is essentially a bazaar, not a Presbyterian church.”

“Even if my fellow man has proven faithless time after time, I can at least retain a hope that he will improve, pray for him, and think kindly without frustration and disappointment.”

“Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.”

“One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then there was a long time nothing, after which came hum...”

“The difference between success and failure is that when you see barriers you bring about failure, and when you see possibilities you bring about success.”

“Don't spend more than you take in. Control your debt. Empower the private sector. We have 50 states out there that are laboratories of democracy. Why are we not empowering the states to find...”

“A day without The Philosophy is a day without myself.”

“I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.”

“When I started out, even though you had your rhythm section, they were big horn sections, strings, live people laying on every part of the floor in the studio waiting for their chance to get...”

“There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.”

“It is an incontrovertible fact that if we want to make progress in basic areas of medicine and biology, we are going to have to use animals.”

“Spiritual Metamorphosis, Not Religious Conversion!”

“We're all only fragile threads, but what a tapestry we make.”

“Growing up, I always liked so many different sounds from so many different genres - the different aspects they could bring.”

“The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.”

“Despite the hundreds of non-governmental organizations and the continued outpouring of foreign aid, East Africa remains as a region overwhelmed by extreme poverty.”

“I think God's justice is making wrongs right.”

“When you're on the field, you've got to deliver. It doesn't matter what you potentially could deliver or what you might be able to deliver in future - you've got to deliver it there and then...”

“We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to...”

“Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.”

“My relationship with Alan Shatter is a professional relationship: obviously worked with him over the years, complimented him for his work as a reforming minister, and move on.”

“Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.”

“I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.”

“In a world where global politics is no longer a zero-sum game, it is - or should be - counterintuitive to pursue one's interests without considering the interests of others.”

“If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!”

“I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way.”