Every accepted public quote

“I get really frustrated - actually, it almost makes me angry - when I see, sometimes, magazines will publish a musician's playlist. They'll go and they'll ask, I don't know, somebody from Ae...”

“Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.”

“United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kin...”

“I think Sinn Fein remains the greatest threat to our democracy and our prosperity as a state.”

“I ran track and played football... I was an all-American.”

“People will be able to raise their concerns: what are local officers doing about the drug dealing in the local park? What's happening about the pub where all the trouble is? And the police w...”

“Seth Rollins is one of the hardest-working wrestlers I've ever seen.”

“My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you're moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.”

“The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.”

“I'm always happy for guys who are enjoying the game and maximizing their potential on and off the court.”

“We're going to push hard against China because 90 percent of the trade that happens with North Korea is from China, and so, while they have been helpful, they need to do more.”

“If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.”

“The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.”

“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.”

“I just start with a pencil and paper. I don't want something too trendy, too fashion-forward. I don't want to make something I consider a regular person couldn't wear with blue jeans. But I...”

“Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.”

“A great gimmick is a great gimmick, but on a dud, it just doesn't work. It comes down to talent.”

“Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.”

“I've learned that there are many people out there who want to feel powerful and strong on their own terms, who want to tune out the noise and the punishing nature of grueling workouts. With...”

“Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.”

“You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effect...”

“I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further and clearer than I, and you opened the seas before my ship, whose track led me a...”

“After one brandy, I'm already slurring. I'm quite a lightweight.”

“When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went do...”

“A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.”

“Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”

“When I got 'forever' tattooed on my throat, it meant that my legacy was going to live forever. So anything that I create, I do it because I believe it will live on, forever.”

“While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.”

“I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there.”

“A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.”

“It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.”

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”

“I travelled through the night in a bus with the Kentucky Tea Party en route to a massive rally in Washington. For the most part I found them decent, self-reliant, regular Americans who feare...”

“Sin is a snare.”

“It's very important for us as a group of Navy SEALs, to make sure that the message that we send to the country is that we're ready to serve any commander in chief, the elected head of the ar...”

“The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.”

“If Russia has the influence in Syria that it claims to have, we need to see them use it. We need to see them put an end to these horrific acts. How many more children have to die before Russ...”

“Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do.”

“People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.”

“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.”

“No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe grat...”

“I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.”

“There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.”

“I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.”

“The Jewish man with parents still alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die.”

“5G trials will accelerate in 2018, and in 2019, we can expect to see meaningful deployment in the U.S., China, and potentially other markets like Japan.”

“I've always liked and appreciated storytellers like Garry Shandling and Bill Cosby - more long-form comedy. So starting in San Francisco, watching all these great comics - Patton Oswalt, Dav...”

“There are times to be casual and times to be correct. It's all right to wear a sweater and slacks on a picnic, but they don't belong in the theater or the drawing room.”