Every accepted public quote

“I'll take photographs with kids. People who want to take photographs with me. People who like the movies. People who supported me. I'll do that all day, all night, that's fine. But the bomba...”

“I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.”

“The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.”

“You know the way it is: sometimes Americans think of us as their backward little cousin. It's the whole shamrock, potatoes, famine, leprechaun thing, all that drunken paddies rubbish.”

“Our relations with brothers in Gulf Cooperation council are good and developing, either bilateral relations or with the G.C.C itself, also we have good brotherly and solid ties with Saudi Ar...”

“It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or 'the good mother,' 'the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children' or 'the...”

“The speed of time varied, fast or slow, depending on the depth of my sleep. My favorite days were the ones that barely registered.”

“A bit of science distances one from God, but much science nears one to Him.”

“Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to those fields necessary to stimulate unending innovation in the technological fields, and it...”

“We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work o...”

“My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.”

“[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

“I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.”

“When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters.”

“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”

“He who serves two masters has to lie to one.”

“I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming.”

“The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of...”

“My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind...”

“Being a Williams is not easy in this business because the bar is set very high to achieve success. Daddy set some high standards for all of us.”

“I'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and...”

“I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.”

“Deep learning allows you to create predictive models at a level of quality and sophistication that was previously out of reach. And so deep learning also enhances the product function of dat...”

“As a singer, if I'm in a room that is too cold, I kind of freak out, so I actually like the humidity, and I love the heat.”

“As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.”

“I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.”

“There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to convert food into worms as soon as possible. In three days a single worm produces 300 pro...”

“People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.”

“Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs.”

“The panther is sleek. The panther is sneaky. The panther is covert. Meanwhile, the gorilla will show up and bang on his chest and make noises to warn you about what is about to happen if you...”

“You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who...”

“I don't feel like songs should be hoarded. I don't feel like one's tainted if somebody else does it. That's the mark of artistry - take a song that's maybe even a really popular song and do...”

“Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our a...”

“If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.”

“The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is not the place for the oblique or the crypti...”

“I like sweaters. I have a sweater obsession, I guess.”

“Life is clear-cut a dimension of time.”

“I assumed that 'Gone Girl' would do incrementally better than 'Dark Places,' and that would be great. So the fact that it did more than that was kind of an incredibly pleasant surprise.”

“There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrime...”

“In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself,...”

“I'm particularly proud of my work with the Starkey Hearing Foundation for whom I raised a million dollars in one day on 'Celebrity Apprentice.' They do great work around the world helping de...”

“I get a little belligerent when not enough protesters show up at my appearances.”

“I have done many films across the globe and would love to be a part of Bollywood, but the script must have a strong character for me.”

“Believe it or not, I'm a bit clumsy with technology. It's probably why I'm so excited about the touchscreen - even an idiot can use it!”

“How can we make sure that Confucianism is to be practiced? One must enforce it with power, and to have power, one must have a strong army.”

“I realized I had it made because you don't have to destroy anything to get honey. You can just use the same things over and over again, put it in a quart canning jar, and you've got $12.”

“There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.”

“Every mother has to take care of her family.”