Every accepted public quote

“I love the way Monteverdi's opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is just pure amoral, liquid passion. The Orchestra of the Age of the Enlight...”

“I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting;...”

“What a day! She had gotten fired, sat in God-knows-what, got rained on, got caught in a traffic jam, been rejected three times, and, as if that weren't enough sponged on by a mooch of an ali...”

“I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.”

“It is tougher to control range on a guy who is as tall, lengthy, and busy as Amir Khan, who has a very good jab.”

“I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!”

“At It's a 10 Haircare, our products are for all hair types and create instant miracle results, exceeding industry norms and consumer expectations.”

“Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.”

“Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.”

“With 'Transformers,' I'm going to get to drive fast cars and have a lot of fun. That's what appeals to me about it. I want to have as much fun as possible.”

“Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.”

“If you have problems of conduct that are difficult and hard to settle, I will furnish you with solutions, for I not only know matters of practice and duty, but I even know them beforehand.”

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”

“Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.”

“We got HBO when I was 7. My parents would be in bed, 'Children of the Corn' would be on at midnight, and I'd watch it on mute.”

“The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation.”

“Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.”

“The first series of 'Open All Hours' came and went without much fanfare because the BBC, in its almighty wisdom, put it out on BBC2, reasoning that it was 'a gentle comedy', better suited to...”

“So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally,...”

“I would not be happy to do what I do unless I felt that the large audience wanted it.”

“Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.”

“Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are grant...”

“Mormons aren't gonna buy my album but, you know, what are you gonna do?”

“Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.”

“My love is infinite.”

“I wonder if it is possible to have two boyfriends. I mean, times are changing. Relationships are more complicated. In France men always have mistresses and wives and so on. Henri probably ha...”

“I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups...”

“I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.”

“Relapse is very dangerous. However, relapse can be a symptom of the disease. Sometimes there are multiple relapses before you get sober and stay sober.”

“I am the wind beneath my wings I am the song that my heart sings I'm not the rock beneath my feet I lose my shape to be complete spread me wide and spread me high today I let illusions die”

“Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.”

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, w...”

“To be a Miss World is to carry a burning torch. It is like action carried out by one to illuminate the lives of many.”

“'Pair of Kings' is so much fun, literally. It is a very physical show with loads of stunts and green screen work, and you never know what great adventure is ahead of you! It's also a nice ch...”

“I don't like having my space invaded.”

“And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people.”

“Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Requests range from pencils for a poetry writing unit to violins for a school recital...”

“I had become a poet long before I learnt how to walk. My mother, a poet, made me a poet in her womb!”

“Large government is inevitably inefficient, but so, too, is large private enterprise.”

“Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's abili...”

“He who has the fastest cart never has a bad lie.”

“We take each week as it comes; we're juggling just like everybody else. It's all about spinning plates.”

“Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That's how I enjoyed fame in '74; it was not jus...”

“My favorite zone is from 1890 -1915, that zone that spans the overlap of the so-called Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. People had such a boundless sense of optimism; They felt they could...”

“If I'm running errands, I'll put on a little concealer for the circles under my eyes, mascara, and lip gloss.”

“How I love David Bowie.”

“The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.”