Every accepted public quote

“I know some women are intimidated by makeup.”

“The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.”

“I am honored to be chosen for this collaboration; I grew up watching Disney and using Beats headphones. Now I get to represent them both - it's unreal.”

“I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.”

“Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain hav...”

“I was too kind of brave and proud to want a dialect coach because I thought that showed weakness in my armor. But then you just learn it's a more efficient way of doing it. A dialect coach i...”

“It is most unwise for people in love to marry.”

“Tintin comics evoke Bermuda, where my parents doled out comics for good behavior and my grandmother taught me how to shuffle cards.”

“I consider my girls the greatest gift from God in life. And I also love the career that I have built, lost and rebuilt. But the highs and lows of my career would not have been as exciting or...”

“I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, i...”

“Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.”

“An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by its own fullness, not by its reception.”

“An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.”

“I am the only problem I will ever have, and I am the only solution I will ever need.”

“Videogames make you feel like you're actually doing something. Your brain processes the tiered game achievements as real-life achievements. Every time you get to the next level, hot jets of...”

“We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.”

“I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the so...”

“I found out how great the E Street Band is. The reality of a band that you can't scoop aside, can't put in a corner.”

“I just want to be a great player.”

“Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.”

“I don't work for Donald Trump. I work with him. I work for the people who sent me up here. He ran on repealing and replacing Obamacare. Those people that put him and me in office expect us t...”

“In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.”

“As a public servant, William H. Webster has an impeccable resume.”

“Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.”

“Unless you have economic security, then you can't have general security.”

“If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.”

“As far as base humiliation goes, acting is a tough business. It's a tough, embarrassing thing to do for a living when you're starting out, and you better not have any ego or pride, because t...”

“Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of c...”

“At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eatin...”

“If you have a fantastic idea you're really passionate about and are making $100,000 in your job, if you can set aside some of that to invest in servers or contractors or other folks, that's...”

“the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.”

“But now science is the belief system that is hundreds of years old. And, like the medieval system before it, science is starting not to fit the world any more. Science has attained so much p...”

“It is true I am rather taken up with dress; but as to feathers, every one wears them, and it would seem extraordinary if I did not.”

“We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.”

“It is never easy for a professional cricketer, who has represented his country for 17 years, to forget the past and adopt a new lifestyle.”

“I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friend...”

“America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative act...”

“It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unfo...”

“Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.”

“I've tried to learn something from other players and how they are really focused on the Grand Slams. I couldn't do that in the past.”

“I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing.”

“Glogg is a Scandinavian mulled wine, sweetened with honey, almonds, raisins and spices. Its name suits its purpose so beautifully.”

“People who say literature doesn't matter, there are three books from the Middle East that are still shaping the world many centuries later.”

“If your team is in the trenches, you've got to be in the trenches with them.”

“Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.”

“Howard Hughes was obsessed with me. But at first it seemed as if he were offering me a superb career opportunity.”

“I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.”

“The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.”