Every accepted public quote

“Over my career, I'd watched senior leader visits have unintended negative consequences. Typically, schedules were unrealistically overloaded and were modified during the visit to cancel part...”

“I got Type 1 diabetes at 30. It hit me in 1982 when I was a White House Fellow in Washington. I had viral pneumonia. I lost 35 pounds in six weeks. And I couldn't see anything. Everything wa...”

“I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.”

“Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste an...”

“I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler.”

“That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.”

“I think the more matches that I play, the better shape I'm going to get in. That's the best type of fitness you can do.”

“Todo tiene su momento, y cada cosa su tiempo bajo el cielo”

“Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client i...”

“What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.”

“After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was a false sense of security: If we get Saddam, we're going to...”

“I just loved working with George Benson, whom I very much enjoy musically and as a person.”

“Before digital and mobile communications effectively tethered us to an invisible, infinite 'wire,' even those with the most hectic schedules were usually willing to answer the phone if they...”

“The Chilcot report is damning. It exposes a litany of failures over a long period, including reliance on flawed intelligence assessments, lack of planning and insufficient foresight of obvio...”

“There's nothing my housekeeper does that I can't do - and maybe better!”

“The brain is wider than the sky.”

“Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks, and bribes became a way of doing business at FIFA.”

“My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like films to move, but I like also clear storytelling and characters, and most of all, I like auth...”

“Everyone on 'The Goonies' and everyone on 'Lord Of The Rings' knew that we were a part of something that was going to be big.”

“Through their kisses and caresses they experienced a joy and wonder the equal of which has never been known or heard of. But I shall be silent...; for the rarest and most delectable pleasure...”

“I didn't feel that my identity was caught up in being a cartoonist, and that if it stopped I'd stop.”

“My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good fo...”

“I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.”

“Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.”

“Sometimes we can make our own opportunities, sometimes we can see them coming, but more often than not they are like pop quizzes, they are sprung on you like a challenge to test your skills,...”

“But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.”

“That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top per...”

“I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ra...”

“Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.”

“If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.”

“I think we all have different personalities... and even in relationships, we can be called psycho, and we can be called sweet, based on what the person feels about you.”

“I am a huge Prince fan. It's a very rare thing for him to have people open for him. It's been the Time and Sheila E., and that's about it. Building a relationship with him has been like a dr...”

“Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.”

“I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.”

“Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are...”

“I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.”

“What I usually do is hoard money - I accumulate as much as possible in the fear of not having enough to pay tax.”

“Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.”

“If I was fat and had a strong regional accent and was a bloke, I'd be a stand-up. Because I think I'm funny.”

“Most of the stories I read are about my Hollywood pedigree.”

“President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial.”

“Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.”

“Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.”

“Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the impo...”

“Choose to normalize giving best service to other people. Give best service regardless, if those people are black or white. Whether they are famous or not ,or whether they are your friends or...”

“I do celebrity ski races all over the world.”

“I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.”

“I always believe in just have as much fun as you can so that when you're in the part that you hate, there's a light at the end of the tunnel, that you're close to finished.”