Every accepted public quote

“I've achieved everything in my career that I set out to - with the Champions League as the crowning glory.”

“Learn from those who have paved the way before you. - Kailin Gow on Wisdom”

“You need to decide that you're going to use a story to enlighten and inspire people in the modern day.”

“People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.”

“Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.”

“Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.”

“The automobile has moved into the mainstream of our integrated digital world.”

“Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.”

“I'm a fly fisherman. I make flies. They're imitations of insects at different stages in their development.”

“For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.”

“When I was a little boy in school I had to dress up as a bunny and there's a picture of me with an annoyed face, and when I saw it, I thought I should name myself 'Bad Bunny.'”

“I sit my three sons down and say, 'Listen to me. When the police stop you, immediately comply. Don't walk away, don't smart-mouth; get your hands up and get down on the ground.' If you're no...”

“Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.”

“The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.”

“The reason why China forecasting has such a poor track record is that Westerners constantly invoke the model and experience of the West to explain China, and it is a false prophet. Until we...”

“Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.”

“The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first...”

“Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.”

“A president who is concerned about an ongoing criminal investigation is almost inevitably going to do a worse job as president.”

“Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.”

“I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex...”

“If you can kill it, or it can kill you, it's real.”

“Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!”

“Back when the natural sciences, philosophy, and theology were one great intellectual hodgepodge, proving the existence of God was a relatively commonplace exercise. To the modern mind, howev...”

“I've invested a couple million into touring, and that's paid off.”

“Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere - and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity and weakness and fear and anxiety because I think that, at...”

“Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I've never reviewed her work, because I find nothing in it to get excited about no matt...”

“Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.”

“The first day that I get to Fort Myers, there was a newspaper down there. The newspaper said, 'Puerto Rican hot dog arrives in town.'”

“I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.”

“You know when you play a good game and you know when you play a bad game.”

“I would never be a contestant on my own show. I would never speak to me, and I'd never sign the release.”

“All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.”

“Movie directors who have filmed F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' believe it's a big book looming inside a small one, and they aren't altogether wrong.”

“Traveling is not a hindrance for me; it's something I actually enjoy.”

“I went through a phase when I was watching a lot of foreign films, just itching to get out of the suburbs and explore.”

“I had this imaginary world where fairies were my friends. If you told six-year-old Juno that she'd one day play a Disney fairy, she'd totally freak out.”

“Trump has the opportunity to be the president who, like Harry Truman, redirected U.S. foreign policy for a generation.”

“I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste...”

“No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on...”

“Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.”

“We're more effective than birth control pills.”

“While I voted for Mr. Trump, my confidence remains in God for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

“Modesty is the conscience of the body.”

“I have three wood-fired ovens... I have one at my house, one at my ranch, one on the trailer that I use for charity events.”

“The working class who toil everyday to pay their rent and put food on their families' tables are tired of being lectured by the fat cats in Washington and Brussels who preach what we need an...”

“It's hysterical how kids have their own personalities, even at like 3 or 4. And, it's funny what they tend to like.”

“Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.”