Every accepted public quote

“They all want you to make a movie for under a million dollars, which I don't want to. I don't want to be a faux radical film-maker at 70. I did that. I don't need to do it again.”

“I love that my friends are all freaks.”

“My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.”

“I love my district, the 37th Legislative District in Washington State, where I have lived for more than 20 years.”

“The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.”

“I started singing by default, I think. Because there was a guy in the group that thought the group wasn't going to ever be anything. And I was getting ready to record, and I'd never recorded...”

“Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have a major stimulus initiative because the only group with liquidity is th...”

“I'm the lucky one who got asked to do 'The Sound of Music' and all the other lovely things that I did.”

“As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go ou...”

“I want to continue to strive towards deepening my relationship with God and finding peace in whatever trials or circumstances I may be given.”

“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”

“Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.”

“It was cinematographer George C. Williams who first told me about 'Sakhavu.' He said that the script was good and asked me to listen to it. Later, Sidhartha Siva called me and narrated the s...”

“You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.”

“Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.”

“I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people merging into the central community of New York City....”

“In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.”

“But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, and there is no single Davos community either. There are numerous tribes who interact only...”

“Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, whi...”

“So I've been fortunate to have a bunch of teammates - pretty much all the teammates I've had have been pretty good guys.”

“Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.”

“I hate going to the gym, so sweating outdoors sure beats sitting on a stationary bike staring at my navel.”

“Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.”

“Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.”

“I have truly been inspired by the struggle and triumphs of so many women that dare to break new ground in all aspects of society, and those who have pushed the boundaries of human imaginatio...”

“Confess your feelings through actions & words. It's either a closure for you or a beginning of never ending happiness.”

“The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But...”

“Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.”

“Everybody had posters in their room; everybody had the four symbols of Zeppelin on the wall and all that.”

“We are to be like Christ in his incarnation.”

“Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They ca...”

“A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, an...”

“We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.”

“My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?”

“Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.”

“Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue.”

“Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.”

“Food strengthens my family bond while it nourishes my body.”

“I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a p...”

“I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn'...”

“When I'm into a woman, I literally can't stop staring. I'm like a little kid. I become completely entranced.”

“Usher and Shakira are so humble and easy to get along with.”

“We need to continue to modernise current humanitarian work while at the same time drive a more systemic shift in how we envision the operation and financing of humanitarian solutions.”

“Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises.”

“I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.”

“Baby, where we're going, you won't need a shirt.”

“Cell-site data - like mailing addresses, phone numbers, and IP addresses - are information that facilitate personal communications rather than part of the content of those communications the...”

“I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano.”