Every accepted public quote

“Sometimes letting go is simply allowing yourself to come to terms with the truth that you have been watering dead plants.”

“We cannot gamble with American lives. I will not gamble with American lives.”

“I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.”

“Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater bur...”

“Every challenger has come forward and said he's going to challenge me and win because I'm out of touch with the constituents. We run a race, the election comes, and the majority of voters di...”

“I think there's something kind of good about growing up in a place you know is not the cool place to be. I think it's good for your head.”

“I believe in a passion for inclusion.”

“Observation is awakening to revelation of life!”

“While I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my d...”

“Lotsa people want to hurt me. That's the price you pay for being a big mouth.”

“The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He canno...”

“In the great battle of Antietam, still the bloodiest day in American history, Union forces were led by Gen. George McClellan, an incredibly cautious man.”

“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”

“I will admit to hoarding beauty products. I'm a beauty lady.”

“I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.”

“For me, travel is one of the biggest perks of pro wrestling. You get to see the world on somebody else's dime.”

“There are so many books I love for different reasons. For superhero stuff, I always go back to Alan Moore's 'Watchmen' or his 'Swamp Thing' run. Those are my two favorites, and there are ind...”

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

“If you are interested in equality at all costs, you should never have gone looking for your power in the first place. Holding authority with integrity is more important than making others fe...”

“Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.”

“If anyone interferes into the private life of two people, I will defend the right of those two people between their four walls. That is no problem.”

“Dean Martin always dressed very well but then he was a good looking fella with a good physique so he could wear anything.”

“Weave the circle, tightly sewn, Let nothing evil or unknown Enter within. Stay without On pain of death, we cast you out.”

“To me, the best love songs work on two - maybe three - different levels, where you're talking about the person who you're right opposite, and all the people like that.”

“Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.”

“I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.”

“Do you want to know what scares the Washington cartel? Actually, not remotely. I don't scare them in the tiniest bit. What scares them is you. What scares them is that old Reagan coalition i...”

“I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one...”

“Endorsing Ronald Reagan in 1980, Kissinger threw in with America's new militarists, who would jump-start a revived Cold War and drive to retake the Third World.”

“Business leaders should provide expertise in service of our country. My predecessors at GE have done so, as have leaders of many other great American companies.”

“I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.”

“Inviting others to help us with our work in the Church helps them feel needed and helps them feel the Spirit. When these feelings come, many people often then realize that something has been...”

“I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'”

“Strangely enough, the legend of John Brown, who was clearly crazy, helped the abolitionist cause and is thought to have precipitated the American Civil War.”

“In essence, Clinton's Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.”

“Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?”

“On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.”

“I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.”

“Run the race of life with righteousness of Faith.”

“That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choo...”

“The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about chang...”

“I swear to God, if my kids, when they're 18, if they come to me and say, 'Dad, I love pumping gas. I love getting up in the morning, I love grabbing the handle, I love the smell of the gas s...”

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

“Entrepreneurs' willingness to innovate or just to invest - and thus create new jobs - is driven by their 'animal spirits,' as they decide whether to leap into the void.”

“Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.”

“Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.”

“In Japanese culture, there is a belief that God is everywhere - in mountains, trees, rocks, even in our sympathy for robots or Hello Kitty toys.”

“I'm so biased to this issue of the origins of life and the limits of life.”