Every accepted public quote

“I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint.”

“America should function as a Christian nation.”

“I collect motorcycles and art.”

“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will...”

“Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!”

“It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that...”

“I'm chomping at the bit for more movie roles as long as it doesn't interfere with my WWE schedule.”

“In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.”

“One chooses slavery because it is safe and meaningful; then one loses the meaning of it, but fears to move out of it. One has literally died to life but must remain physically in this world.”

“There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.”

“I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level.”

“A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to...”

“The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ours...”

“When I was elected as president, it was prohibited for any American or NATO officer even to enter our Ministry of Defense.”

“I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.”

“My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.”

“The highest levels of fame in the entertainment business are geared toward keeping the artist disconnected, disinterested and continuing to make product and not developing any sort of 'norma...”

“I went out with a promiscuous impressionist - she did everybody.”

“A nation's youths shouldn't be sent off to die.”

“I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It's all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if...”

“An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.”

“We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.”

“Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.”

“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”

“The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later.”

“When I want to explain why empowering girls and women is critical to fighting poverty, I often tell a person's story. It's easier to relate to a personal story than to global data telling us...”

“Preferring healthful foods is a skill, and skills take practice and perseverance to develop.”

“Before all this happened, I always used to see my stammer as being a negative, all my life, but then when I went on 'Pop Idol,' and the first time I saw it on television, it was really, real...”

“I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.”

“I've always believed in equal pay for equal work.”

“When you're really young, dating girls, and trying to explain Kiss, they just look at you like you're kind of crazy. I think they got so big in the Seventies and were such a phenomenon - the...”

“If you can't fight, and you can't flee, flow.”

“The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.”

“It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.”

“I spend 80% of my time in my restaurants. Taping my TV shows doesn't take much time, and then they get aired a lot. That's the thing people don't realize.”

“Facebook is looking to help you distribute content to who you want to distribute to. Facebook gets a lot better if you put each of your friends into either your 'close friend' or 'acquaintan...”

“Mi sedetti alla macchina da scrivere e dentro di me si fece il vuoto, un vuoto terribile.”

“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it i...”

“All you need to do is to get your heart right and God will give your mind an upgrade and place you in the right position of power for your life”

“I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of vid...”

“My career has been very good to me, but really, the odds are really slim. It's a tough life, and you deal with a lot of rejection and unemployment, and if you're lucky to have a career, it's...”

“The way I work: I pick a country. I learn the political history - I mean I really learn it; I read until it sinks in. Once I read the political history, I can project and find the clandestin...”

“I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I expect it's like writing in Manhattan, but there aren't as many tourists walkin...”

“I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'”

“To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.”

“I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.”

“To reap this demographic dividend, we need to enable the youth to acquire skills required to get the job or become self-employed.”

“The way you create deflation is you create an asset bubble.”