Every accepted public quote

“Books are like bacon for the mind.”

“Our country is slowly but surely moving - and I've seen it over and over again in many instances in government - toward a culture of mediocrity.”

“I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.”

“I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.”

“It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive.”

“I've got to tell you, I'm not really a tie man. I'll wear a tie if I have to: If I'm standing in the dock and it looks like I'm facing 20 years, then I'll definitely wear the tie!”

“I honestly never had the biological need to reproduce until I met my husband. But by the same token, even if we were unsuccessful, we were totally okay with adopting.”

“Usually the films that I do are released theatrically in foreign markets. In the U.S., they're either picked up as HBO premier films or Showtime first-runs. In today's market, in America, yo...”

“My vision is to put this country and the British people first and for us to divorce ourselves from political union and re-engage with the rest of the world.”

“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”

“The ADA gave more than 50 million Americans with disabilities, just like my son Cole, the chance to live the American Dream and be defined only by their potential - not their limitations.”

“I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wa...”

“What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?”

“I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still thi...”

“The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yo...”

“Variety is the soul of pleasure.”

“To me, I've played full seasons and had success. Mentally, I've been through it before. I'm not incapable of going through this.”

“Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.”

“The result is an empty thing. The result is I'm happy for the next two days because I get less criticism and more time to improve my team. But what satisfies me the most in my job is to feel...”

“I just think more precaution should be taken when I'm inside the pocket. Look at all the replays - I'm on the ground every time. It's unfortunate for myself, it's unfortunate for my team and...”

“If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!”

“I had a 'Monty Python' CD, and I would listen to it in the car on the way to school. It also refined my British accent. I can do a killer British accent because I'm just imitating 'Monty Pyt...”

“You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read until the cover fell off, the book you read hidden from your mother. What an...”

“She wanted a new beginning, so she opened the door and walked boldly into the unknown.”

“You know, you can only throw in so many haymakers before one misses and you get knocked out.”

“Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.”

“I remember when I first saw Whoopi Goldberg doing standup, and she was wearing a sheet on her head, basically pretending to be this little white girl with long luxurious blonde hair. Everyon...”

“In stand-up, you do need to be having fun up there, like Richard Pryor said, but you have to know yourself well, too... You start learning, and it's like playing a piano. You know exactly wh...”

“I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Josh Gibson.”

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

“There's never been an entertainer that can take two warring parties and have both presidents stand on the stage and hold hands.”

“As the idealized mother, I might choose Irene Dunne as the mother in 'I Remember Mama' who strives and not just cooks and scrubs for her children, but who also acts as her daughter's literar...”

“There was unprecedented elite condemnation of the plans to invade Iraq. Sensible analysts were able to perceive that the enterprise carried significant risks for U.S. interests, however conc...”

“At thirteen, I accompanied my mother to the Hawaiian Islands. There, for the first time, I saw the wonder of a steamship and the vastness of the ocean. From that time on, I was eager to acqu...”

“I grew up in Cleveland, so my heart got attached at a young age to the freight train of sadness that is Cleveland sports.”

“No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that someone very much wants me to want what he wants. This is the moment when the impas...”

“My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology, which included 'The Beast in the Jungle.' It swept me awa...”

“Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.”

“Do not fear mistakes. There are none.”

“Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.”

“The BJP is not a party dependent on a single individual, nor is it tied to the apron strings of a family.”

“Sometimes the hole of despair is just too deep. Hope cannot reach that low, or maybe a person cannot hold on to the edge of Hope from inside the crater of despair.”

“It has a Nazi echo, doesn't it? The Jews had to wear that Star of David, and Donald Trump is saying all Syrians have to carry an ID card and they can, without warrant, go into any Syrian's h...”

“I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?”

“True success is a silence inner process that can empower the mind, heart and soul through strong aspiration for great achievement.”

“Zack Snyder is a huge fan of 'Game of Thrones,' and I met him in the training stunt facility that I train at, and I guess he really liked me because he later called me into his office, and w...”

“When you think of it, people may rub elbows and still have an ocean or two between them.”

“I love the smell of clean laundry. Working in the garden and getting my hands dirty. Doing the dishes. These are the things that make me feel normal.”