Every accepted public quote

“All the great game show hosts have a signature 'look,' from Bob Barker's year-round Brazil Nut-hued tan to Monty Hall's oversized lamb chop sideburns. As the host of IFC's new comedy game sh...”

“Your dreams are on the other side of your fears!”

“Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't comprehend that the Braves have only won one World Series in those 13 years.”

“Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion bu...”

“I feel more Scottish than Norman.”

“When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.”

“Mostly what you remember and enjoy are the scenes you played with people. And quite often, they're the combative scenes!”

“All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.”

“You are what you write.”

“America has done a great job making brutally fast, stripped-down cars.”

“When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.”

“I am always concerned with finding the right spot and the right shot, so sometimes I forget to appreciate the skill of my fellow adventurers, but I am aware of how my life has been changed b...”

“A Word is Dead A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day.”

“I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.”

“I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.”

“Bagi sebagian orang kebenaran itu penting, sebab mereka dapat menerimanya. Mereka dapat menghadapi kebenaran dengan tabah - ketabahan yang hanya dimiliki orang-orang yang mengharapkan kehidu...”

“I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.”

“There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like...”

“As America prepared for war in 1941, discrimination largely shut black Americans out of job opportunities in the growing defense industry.”

“I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. I had been damaged...”

“More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the pay...”

“If you judge, investigate.”

“I grew up on Long Island. It was pretty normal.”

“It is imperative for us to protect the flora and fauna around us.”

“Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another cit...”

“I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter; she's got her husban...”

“It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.”

“Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.”

“You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch, but the best crutch I could have.”

“No one has a closest friend in Hollywood.”

“I probably wanted to be Pam Grier growing up.”

“We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.”

“The way to be invisible - is to truly be imaginary. But since you cannot imagine yourself, you have to clone your imagination into being an image of yourself. Imagine that.”

“It was hard for my friends to equate me with a picture like 'The Omen.'”

“Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.”

“I knew I wanted to work in television because some friends of mine, when I went to high school - their fathers worked for, as a matter of fact, for NBC Sports at the time.”

“Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.”

“Talking to people from the heart matters, and it's unfortunately something brands have forgotten about. Celebrity endorsement deals try to gain recognition for brands, but at their core, wha...”

“A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.”

“Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I w...”

“I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.”

“A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called 'True Friend'.”

“I crave my mom's Sloppy Joes.”

“Hurry is violence on the soul.”

“The kidnapped person is so tantalizingly close, kept alive by a devastating hope. Kidnapping or hostage-taking is perhaps the most disturbing form of terror because it turns this hope into a...”

“The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.”

“At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.”

“I kind of had a quarter-life crisis before I did 'Rent.' I had done Glinda in 'Wicked' for a while. I had worked for Cirque Du Soleil, and then I did 'Hair.' Then I had a real quiet time, no...”