Every accepted public quote

“Personally, I think that users should be able to use all the functions of a console video game machine as soon as they open the box.”

“I regret to say I'm unable to reply to your unexpressed desires.”

“I don't think you can ever tell the story of Ted Turner's involvement in professional wrestling-slash-sports entertainment without devoting several chapters to the rise and continued ascent...”

“'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it...”

“For the most part, Islam is about peace. It's dealing with submission to the most high. Mohammed is a prophet, a messenger. But at the same time, we'll fight in the name of Allah. We're not...”

“How the excitement comes upon me to tell it all! In the quest of writing, the heart can speed up with anticipation--as it does, indeed, during the chase itself of whales. I can swear it, hav...”

“Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.”

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”

“Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it's hard to disassociate from the contemporary realities of those places.”

“It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.”

“I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.”

“The coal miners are working. But there's more than just coal miners in West Virginia.”

“As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging d...”

“There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.”

“Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.”

“I think - something I learned recently looking up the meaning of ideology. If you look in American encyclopedias, it says, you know, 'Rules for - basic rules for a system of economics or pol...”

“Love remains memorable not because of love but because of sacrifice.”

“MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.”

“America has a unique combination of talent, a vibrant business environment, and access to global markets, which has enabled U.S. companies like Intel to foster economic growth and innovation...”

“Those who live in memories are never really dead.”

“The connection between pathos and broad comedy is very tight. But you do far more work in a comedy scene than you do in a straight scene. It's much harder.”

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that...”

“I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but it's entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if you're a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance...”

“The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.”

“I'm one of the luckiest people on earth.”

“Divorce is hard enough when you're an adult - never mind when you're a child. That was probably when my shyness started, when I was at my shyest.”

“There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Po...”

“I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.”

“There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So...”

“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”

“'Jurassic Park' movies don't fit into a specific genre. They're sci-fi adventures that also have to be funny, emotional, and scary as hell. That takes a lot of construction, but it can't fee...”

“During Fashion Week, I tend to do a gel manicure because it's easier.”

“For a photographer, sharks are a stirring subject, possessing a perfect blend of grace and power. They have been sculpted by evolution and are ideally suited for whichever ecosystem they inh...”

“No one wakes up in the morning and says, 'I want to gain 150 pounds and I will start right now!”

“I think that people always say when people pass away that time heals all wounds. And that's probably the biggest lie. It's not true. I think we all need to remember that it is always still t...”

“Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.”

“Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.”

“It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.”

“Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.”

“There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early...”

“I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.”

“The possibility that members of the Trump team coordinated and colluded with agents of the Kremlin on Russia's interference in our elections is a profound and disturbing one, but it is pivot...”

“Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?”

“Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.”

“We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult be...”

“The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.”

“The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.”

“When I think about it, 20 years really seems like a blink of an eye sometimes. I wish I would have made a more concerted effort to enjoy things along the way.”