Every accepted public quote

“My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I...”

“Workers' disillusionment is deepened by the knowledge that, as their average wages grow slowly or stagnate, the very wealthy are growing significantly wealthier.”

“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”

“I had a strong desire to write and some free time.”

“I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.”

“Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.”

“In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many...”

“I am a dreamer. And what I dream of is to become Olympic champion, world champion, world record holder.”

“I have the most eclectic audience - I've got gay, I've got straight, black, white, rich, poor, young, old, in 45 countries. And they don't all come because I'm the Sinatra kid, though that's...”

“At minimum, we must recognize that there are legitimate, unanswered questions about whether the Obama Justice Department involved themselves in a political project targeting then-candidate D...”

“If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.”

“'Leave It To Beaver' is a fairly famous show in America, but I don't think it travelled. It was one of those typical '50s family comedies. I was in the pilot episode as sort of the dark pres...”

“I guess I don't know if I'm comfortable with fame or touring or promo or any of that stuff, and I really discovered that I love working for people and co-writing and working under someone.”

“You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.”

“I kneel by the votive lights, praying to the Mother of All.”

“You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill...”

“The thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress, I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation.”

“My experience on 'Grey's Anatomy' is something that I will treasure for the rest of my life.”

“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”

“Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.”

“Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.”

“I've had an amazing ride. I've been blessed beyond things that I could never have imagined.”

“If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing different...”

“My faith gives me the ability to say, whatever is next, I'm ready. If it is Hillary or Trump I am ready because they might sit on the desk but they do not sit on the throne.”

“All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.”

“Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical a...”

“With hope in our heart, we shall forever be happy.”

“Even the acceptance of personal responsibility may not overcome the temptation to believe that now is not the time to repent. 'Now' can seem so difficult, and 'later' appear so much easier....”

“Not to sound corny, but if life is a sport, if you're moving to dive on a fumble or pick up a basketball in transition or pivoting to grab your toddler so he doesn't fall into a pool... thos...”

“Mars is much closer to the characteristics of Earth. It has a fall, winter, summer and spring. North Pole, South Pole, mountains and lots of ice. No one is going to live on Venus; no one is...”

“Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.”

“I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot.”

“I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's...”

“Time stopped in the last time I saw you.”

“I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the marro...”

“To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.”

“I've stopped going to see art films because every critic gives them four stars and say things like 'masterpiece,' 'spellbinding' and 'mesmerizing.' I mean, they're doing that with my film, b...”

“I grew up with plenty of smart people. They would beat me at chess; they could solve brain teasers before I could, but then they would struggle in algebra. These were incredibly smart people...”

“I wish I was fitter.”

“Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.”

“Only one man can follow a book but the pages can be for fill”

“I love Massenet - 'Manon' had been a wonderful role for me - and the music he wrote for 'Thais' is quite enjoyable and not terribly demanding in a vocal sense.”

“Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even he could know that this next cha...”

“I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and...”

“My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.”

“What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common...”

“We're all constantly keeping score. You can't help it. But trying to pit ourselves against other people in some measurable way is largely a waste of time.”

“As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.”