Every accepted public quote

“The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.”

“I feel my role is to push boundaries. I don't like things to be safe and sedentary. So controversy is the cross I have to bear.”

“I can't see potato chips being popular where there's not land to grow potatoes in or where frying in lots of oil isn't easy or convenient.”

“My first film would have been 'Rough,' and it got delayed. 'Venkatadri Express' released first and became a big success. I signed 'Venkatadri' after 15 days of shooting for 'Rough'. I had lo...”

“Because of outdated regulations, workers in different types of contract often have unequal access to healthcare, pensions, education, and training, as well as other social benefits. This has...”

“From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.”

“Civic poetry offers us a way to think and talk about issues that so much of public speech ignores, to make them new by dissecting and repurposing public speech, prying its falsehoods from it...”

“I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.”

“Death is softer by far than tyranny.”

“It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.”

“It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but I hated them and couldn't wait for them to grow back. Now I embrace them. I realized the quirk...”

“A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.”

“There's, like, a dark needle or a nail that lives at the back of all of our heads, and that's your fear.”

“Tom Kitt aside - he's in his own category with me, of course - Stephen Sondheim is one of my all-time favorite composers.”

“A lot of times, with campaigns or parties, things are cyclical. We need a long-term strategy on how we continue to engage that goes beyond chair to chair. Always, you are balancing resources...”

“If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it would grow a tail. Now that's no kind of behavior for a planet.”

“Success doesn't come from these bullshit things degrees and kind of stuff... It's comes from the mindset that you have!”

“We don't want to just put logos on somebody's devices. It needs to feel like Nokia, what Nokia was known for.”

“Tom lived by the sea. In a small blue house that was from another time. It was squeaky and drafty and held one of my favorite places in the entire world: a big old chair by a front window an...”

“Victor patted my hand. 'I like you, Sky. You're a fighter.' 'I am, aren't I? Hear that, Zed? No more bambi comparisons. I'm a Rottweiler -with a temper.' 'A very small Rottweiler,' said Zed,...”

“When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.”

“A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.”

“I think the responsibility of writers is to convey the feelings that exist in the moment, the moment of that sharp and immediate pang of sour smiles when your heart suddenly starts pumping i...”

“It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever - bless them, dear creatures!”

“I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.”

“That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.”

“I hear from all different people, not just people like me, or lesbians. It be straight people, it be grown men, it be grown women, people that have been sick or depressed that say, 'Oh, you...”

“Getting into Sundance is a certain sort of passport to a level of anxiety I've never experienced, even having had a baby in the NICU for a week. For about ten minutes, you're a world-class d...”

“I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.”

“I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way; it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity...”

“It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit b...”

“It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.”

“The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.”

“Solitude allows you to sit down and work out a system that works best for you.”

“I would watch 'The Ed Sullivan Show' and borrow a few lines here and there from guests like Red Buttons and Buddy Hackett to create a routine. Then I started getting invited to do political...”

“I suddenly realized that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to become that which I hated - which is the head of a record company or a digital media conglomerate - and just do whatever...”

“There's a real feeling when you know you're getting it right. It's a physical feeling.”

“Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.”

“I urge the citizens of Ferguson who have been peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights to join with law enforcement in condemning the actions of looters, vandals and others seeking...”

“It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.”

“You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying.”

“I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life.”

“Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives.”

“The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.”

“A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.”

“I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that.”

“I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.”

“My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a...”