Every accepted public quote

“I think Cormier's one of the greatest to ever do it. Two-time, two-division world champion.”

“Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have...”

“The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cat...”

“I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.”

“Just because someone is your family member doesn't mean they're a good person.”

“In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get...”

“It's hard running as an independent. I wouldn't have won the Senate election if I hadn't been governor. I had credibility. The hard part is getting voters to the point where they think it's...”

“Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.”

“Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave.”

“Make yourself necessary to somebody.”

“People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the sense that they may easily include a stain on your bedroom wall... and a variety...”

“There was this hip-hop collective called People Crew. And at the time in Korea, there was no real place to access rap music. So People Crew used to host this summer school program, which tau...”

“To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.”

“A lot of people in my generation have dared to ask questions like, 'Who is James Dean?' And I can't imagine asking a question like that, just because it's been ingrained in me since I was so...”

“The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.”

“For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top.”

“If you look at my career and you look at the span of my work and the things I have done, as far as to garner fame, you'll see that I have turned down more interviews than I do. Or I turn dow...”

“I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.”

“A bird can roost but on one branch. A mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.”

“I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.”

“Whether or not you like an object, it's the product of an individual person making decisions about things. That's what makes it interesting.”

“But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.”

“I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat, and I built a boat.”

“If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in their cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.”

“My whole life, I grew up watching Tiger Woods. If I tuned in to a golf tournament, that's who I watched.”

“Ford is committed to building a sustainable future for the benefit of all Americans, and we believe Ford is on the right path to achieve this vision.”

“For many of us, eating has surprisingly little to do with hunger. We eat out of boredom, for entertainment, to comfort or reward ourselves. Try to be aware of why you're eating, and ask your...”

“No matter how many times you have failed. Out of all options you have, one of them is giving up. Today just choose to start again, Maybe you were doing the right thing, but the time was not...”

“Walt gave me a VIP tour of the studio. I remember people doing voices.”

“People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.”

“No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.”

“Government should eschew suasion and directives to banks on interest rates that run counter to monetary policy actions.”

“That sense of inferiority is just another word for fear. And fear is simply the self-deception that you are about to be separated from the thing you most value.”

“I want to know where joy lives. I'd interview scientists, religious leaders and heads of state. I'd want to find out exactly what makes people happy. I'd want to look into the biology, the c...”

“As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the...”

“A song just doesn't have verse-chorus-verse. It could just be one line. There are Chinese love songs that you have to learn one melody for a three-minute thing, and nothing ever repeats. I l...”

“There was a time when the United States government earned the trust of its people. There was a time when most people believed that the United States government was protecting them.”

“Wall-to-wall coverage of the political intrigue in Washington focuses on which Capitol Hill players won the daily news cycle, with barely any reference to the communities and lives where pol...”

“I don't really have much to prove. I can easily go in a comfort zone, make two films a year, hype them because I've signed them as a star, make them cheap and they will be big hits.”

“As long as Green Lantern is still dealing with fear, it's going to be relevant. 'Rebirth' really grew out of 9/11. 9/11 happened, and then two years later, I was writing about fear. It was o...”

“I don't know how many bands I saw who would try to wreck a hotel room, but I never wrecked a hotel room in my life! If I'm gonna sit there and throw a TV out the window... if it's a good TV,...”

“It follows that most people would very much like science to prove the existence of God but not to take the measure of His capacity.”

“Joss Whedon is the best man on the planet.”

“I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.”

“Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.”

“A sold-out crowd is better than a number one. But being in the studio is better than all of that.”

“Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”

“We, people of socialism, are not like others. We have our peculiar ideas about heroes and martyrs.”