Every accepted public quote

“In sports, you play up to the level of your opponent, and I did some of my best work with Chevy, and I'm so grateful to have worked opposite him. He was a handful and a challenge, and he mad...”

“She was making great money at personal appearances.”

“I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.”

“The flow of time stops for no one. Once a moment passes, you cannot go back and change it. Not with science, not with divine interventions.”

“The casting of 'Slumdog Millionaire' is a dream. Anil Kapoor, as the sleazy TV host, diamonds winking in his earlobes, has never been better; the quietly understated Irrfan Khan turns in ano...”

“In a fractured and fractious world, reading is an act of defiance that proclaims that understanding and tolerance are values worth fighting for.”

“A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.”

“It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it.”

“In pursuing reform, we have to navigate uncharted waters. We may also have to confront protracted problems because we will have to shake up vested interests.”

“Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries...”

“The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of inhumanity, and there is a coarseness, a coarsenin...”

“People can talk about their personal experience and it can be true for them and for their life whatever they learned from that; because what they tell to themselves will always be true for t...”

“I'm a pansy when compared to the men and women of the United States military.”

“Free market never succeeded without free men and free society.”

“I was the first child at four at a modeling agency, so I had an advantage.”

“The thing you can't measure is someone's heart, someone's desire. You can measure a 40, his vertical, his bench press, and that might let you know things like, yeah, he can jump high. But de...”

“The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.”

“Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change...”

“I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.”

“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”

“Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.”

“What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.”

“I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.”

“Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.”

“The U.S's first ballistic missile test was a complete disaster. The Atlas Missile Program, which began in the early 1950s, attempted its first ballistic missile launch on June 11, 1957. The...”

“Everyone thinks of the roaring twenties and associates it with decadence and flappers, female sexual liberation, the freedom of women to express themselves, the beginning of feminism. But it...”

“The Book of Mormon is concrete and solid, they can hold it, and they can visualize that they have to pray to decide if this physical thing is true. There is no room for interpretation.”

“I thought I would spend the rest of my life being a good tax lawyer. The interesting thing about being a tax lawyer is, none of your clients are poor. I had clients come to me and say, 'Can...”

“My brother acquired his first gun when he was very young, from a recently-fled drug dealer's residence. Now, he lived in a rural orange-grove area, and he shot at coyotes who killed his anim...”

“You reach sometimes when you're at the lowest and times when you don't know if you are going to play again or when the next injection or operation might be. There are sometimes when you are...”

“Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.”

“Where there is life, Nan used to say, there is hope.”

“In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way,...”

“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.”

“If you look hard at it, if you look hard at the bleeding heart attitude to always throw money at issues, throw money at problems, what you're in fact probably saying is you're exercising a p...”

“I enjoy life, and I think that's important. Life is so fragile and so fleeting, and it's over in a minute, and you've just got to grab it and do everything and not worry about it.”

“I wanted a relationship like the one my mother and father had. It wasn't perfect; they had to work on it. But there was an unbelievable mutual respect.”

“You'd be surprised how good writing matters when you're going after money.”

“Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.”

“It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than what it used to be.”

“All I wanted was to merge with the same person who had broken me, thinking that he was the only one who could fill in all the little crevices making me feel whole again.”

“It's a new era with regard to social media. It's just something that we have to adapt to and accept.”

“Even the heavenly powers and the angels in their splendor and the principalities, both visible and invisible, must either believe in the Blood of Christ, or else face damnation.”

“Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.”

“I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it be...”

“Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. Throw it in the garbage and it springs up clean. Try to root it out and it only flourishes. L...”

“We need to understand the other side to impact the other side. We become much more effective as humans and leaders when we engage in hearty conversations with those who are different from us...”

“I'm remembering one book that I wrote, 'Fourth Grade Rats,' that took a month to write, but most of them, full-length novels, I would say about a year.”