Every accepted public quote

“Without suffering, how can a soul be ushered into Thu glory of salvation?”

“By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certai...”

“It has been a very successful life experience for President Trump to be President Trump. So let's let him do that... Let's see where the chips fall.”

“The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.”

“My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.”

“What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.”

“And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the...”

“If a person says or does something that we consider offensive, our first obligation is to refuse to take offense and then communicate privately, honestly, and directly with that individual....”

“I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.”

“The higher the obstacles, the higher we get to rise”

“The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.”

“During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be relatively high, but will continue so no longer than till the requ...”

“The fierce beauty and proud independence of this great bird symbolizes the strength and freedom of America. But as latter-day citizens we shall fail our trust if we permit the eagle to disap...”

“I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard...”

“Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.”

“People are dying because they are trying to prove they are strong. Being strong doesn't mean you have to fight everything alone. It doesn't mean you have to go through what you are going thr...”

“The truth of the matter is that most major success in this right-brain, internet-connected, uber-competitive world no longer comes from doing things consecutively. If you do things consecuti...”

“Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.”

“I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.”

“The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship”

“My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.”

“I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to...”

“I was focusing on sax while at Berklee, but then I started to play Brazilian choro and Colombian music. I was doing more folkloric stuff on the clarinet because it works better. Finally, I r...”

“Secularism and pluralism are two of the defining ethos of Western societies. The former decouples religion from governmental institutions whilst the latter seeks to protect the rights of all...”

“Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.”

“I got out of school in 2000, and I always wanted to be on 'This American Life,' since I first started telling stories. And that, I mean, that show is a little bit of a fortress. It's really...”

“There will never be another Ed Koch. He was an original, but he represented a significant, if shrinking, segment of American Jewry who refused to compromise their liberal values, their suppo...”

“I have to know more than everyone else in the room. In a roomful of men, I have to know more than them.”

“California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of...”

“Breaking of norms and disregard for decency have huge, long-term costs.”

“My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parent...”

“Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It d...”

“The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length;...”

“It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that?”

“Don't open a bar if you think all you need to be is social and greet the customers. You have to run a business.”

“In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.”

“Whoever you are, this is America. You can believe or do whatever you want.”

“Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.”

“I like dark places.”

“I think when I was young, let's call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, and I loved comedians. I grew up watching Laurel and Hardy. That's really a long time ago. I l...”

“I want to lower taxes for the middle class.”

“I've always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I've heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anythin...”

“If making movies was easier, there'd be a lot more good movies. So you kind of learn that if it's just a good script, or if it's just a good producer, that's not always enough. You need an e...”

“I did a little soul searching to explore where I had gone wrong, why I made the decisions I did, how my definitions of success and ambition were off. I love a great new pair of shoes - I lov...”

“I wake up every day with a smile, and in that sense, I feel the same as I did when I arrived at Real Madrid in 2005.”

“I'm literally tone-deaf with singing. It's unreal.”

“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.”

“I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter.”