Every accepted public quote

“I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.”

“Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.”

“It is unfair to ask Turkey to make a unilateral concession to take goods from Cyprus within the customs union when the E.U. is not open to northern Cyprus.”

“I grew up listening to a lot of 2Pac and a lot of East Coast, West Coast rap; Bad Boy, Lil Kim, Foxy Brown, Biggie, 2Pac. Super hip-hop, super listening to that raw era of music.”

“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.”

“I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.”

“I've just made a cancer drama, called 'Now Is Good,' directed by Ol Parker and starring Dakota Fanning. We filmed in Brighton and it's about a girl dying of leukemia, although it's not as de...”

“The United States has the best, deepest, widest, and most transparent capital markets in the world which give you, the investor, the ability to buy and sell large amounts at very cheap price...”

“If you don't like the solution, change the problem.”

“When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their suffer...”

“I'm a dramatist, so I really always wrote and directed at the same time because when I wrote something, I always put it on its feet. So I'm in love with actors; I always loved actors.”

“I'm obsessed with Maggie Smith - the way that she can be the most brilliant actress in every single situation and then do Harry Potter, and still make me cry while she's casting spells with...”

“There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.”

“It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.”

“Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.”

“The surge of his ardour swept through him in climatic release, filling her womb with his final, mortal sowing.”

“I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.”

“People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed...”

“If I have to go through Fury after my Povetkin fight - and I never look past my next fight; I am not that foolish - to get those belts, I would love to fight him next.”

“There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.”

“What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology...”

“Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.”

“I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.”

“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all th...”

“The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core...”

“Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.”

“I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.”

“My favourite area of Milano is by the canons - I go to an authentic Italian restaurant around there on a Sunday for delicious food.”

“I tried to dance in my earlier films, but it was more like struggling to stay afloat once you are thrown into the water.”

“For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.”

“I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.”

“I try to remind people that there are a lot of good people, all colors. Then there's some bad ones, too. But there's a lot of good people who really care.”

“If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.”

“When I call on God, I am not trying to get his attention and I am not trying to get Him to notice me. In all this my journey with Him two questions usually comes to my mind, they are; am I p...”

“I am a public figure, but there are limits. I have the right to some tranquillity.”

“In my heart of hearts, I truly believe that Senator Bernie Sanders is the right man to lead this country.”

“There's always something fishy about the French.”

“I lived with my parents in Belarus, and I went to Russian kindergarten, which is where I learned Russian. Belarus had just become an independent country; there was no food in the supermarket...”

“My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or situational comedy, where it's not a joke, but it's telling a story.”

“Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take...”

“If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall becom...”

“Well, I don't think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.”

“When I thought I couldn't write recipes, my boss at the time advised, 'Write as you talk.'”

“The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.”

“Une civilisation sans la Science, ce serait aussi absurde qu'un poisson sans bicyclette.”

“Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.”

“When writing a thank-you if you've had lunch with someone downtown, send an e-mail. If somebody is giving you a dinner party in his or her home and all the work that takes, that person deser...”

“A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.”