Every accepted public quote

“Absent a sense of the preciousness of one's own life, why respect the life of anyone else?”

“How does one begin something so monumental?”

“I think that the essence of a Christmas wreath - of all Christmas vegetative decoration - has to be green and, if possible, living. So the basis of a wreath is ideally holly, laurel, ivy, ro...”

“As a kid, I loved contact sports, especially American football and boxing.”

“We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.”

“In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another qu...”

“I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.”

“And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what...”

“Art can do the opposite of glamourise the unattainable: it can show us anew the genuine merit of life as we're forced to lead it. It is advertising for the things we really need.”

“Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.”

“The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.”

“The last thing I wanted to do was 'Battlestar Galactica.' I thought, 'I've done sci-fi. I did 'Blade Runner.' I don't have to do anything more.'”

“I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday, I have today and I know Him who holds tomorrow so I know tomorrow will be beautiful for me.”

“Obviously, South Africa is our most important market, but we are also gradually increasing our presence throughout East and West as well as North Africa. It is a continent with a lot of pote...”

“My favorite Saturday, outside any Saturday that Louisiana State University plays football, is the Kentucky Derby.”

“Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive...”

“Jesus never gives up on you, so don't give up on Him. Don't be God's fairweather friend.”

“Running a democratic country is one of the most difficult things for any government.”

“I was born into a very religious family where everything was about setting the right example for the community and having to obey orders blindly. I felt that everyone was growing up in the w...”

“The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.”

“As a father of two children, I am used to seeing kids in the midst of a five-alarm meltdown over the choice of DVD or the necessity of broccoli.”

“I kissed John Updike as he presented me with an award. It wasn't the best kiss as far as kisses go, but I hold the fact that I kissed John Updike, that he kissed me, very close to my heart.”

“Ornette Coleman is a real musician. He takes all of the things he's thinking about in the world - which is a whole universe upon universe - and translates this into music.”

“Love is not special, lovers are!”

“Writing is the dragon that lives underneath my floorboards. The one I incessantly feed for fear it may turn and devour my ass. Writing is the friend who doesn't return my phone calls; the it...”

“Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They're trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that.”

“I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention.”

“The puberty train came late to the station for me. I was the shortest kid in my sixth-grade class - they made me pose for the yearbook with the tallest kid for comedic contrast.”

“The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things...”

“Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-realisation. He who practises yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life, and he gets free access to the Divine.”

“Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.”

“All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.”

“At home, my food is just sort of comfort food. It's not super fancy, but it's certainly tasty.”

“When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd see all the different ways they'd work. The guys who di...”

“I don't have a preferred religion - I'd have to do research. I was born a Christian, but as I've grown into my own man, I don't attach myself to a religion - 100 per cent, I have faith. Then...”

“Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.”

“I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.”

“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”

“Who says there's no God, every human who helps a human, is God.”

“For me, it's all about balancing your priorities.”

“People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.”

“The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.”

“People expect things from art that are horrible for us who make it! They put the things we make in these restrictive places called 'museums,' then don't want to hear another word from us.”

“hours hours and hours snap up our pleasures”

“You don't necessarily need Bollywood for wider acclaim.”

“I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.”

“By reading, you learn through others' experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.”

“Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami.”