Every accepted public quote

“I grew up in Burbank - but not the Burbank of valet parking and TV studios. In the late 1950s, there was a small apartment complex on Elmwood Avenue that rented mostly to families on welfare...”

“The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extr...”

“When people approach me, it's a vulnerable moment for everybody. You can see that sometimes people don't quite know what to say to you, but they want to come up to you, and you can tell they...”

“What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?”

“Washington is a complete mess. It's become a venue for partisan bickering, where the needs of the working class just don't matter.”

“Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.”

“If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family could all have apartments in it. We'd raise our kids in the same space and have backyard ba...”

“The best thing ever is when some guy in his 50s taps me on the shoulder and says, 'I just want to let you know I hate my job, I hate my wife, and I come home and I watch reruns of your show...”

“There's a certain exhaustion that sets in when screenwriters are approaching sequels, and they start to lean on crutches - those same old wacky characters!”

“I have to say, if someone literally said to me, 'You're going off to a desert island, what is the one thing you would bring?' I would say, 'It's my concealer or you can just kill me now.' I'...”

“I haven't read a word of Proust. And I listen obsessively to sports radio.”

“A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.”

“Shannon thought about all the childhood diseases that had been eradicated, but what good did it do? A child's life could still be wiped away in an instant. Why did modern people presume that...”

“You keep struggling to achieve your goals in life, and once you get close, you get struck by lightning”

“There's a staircase on the first floor of the Capitol that I walk every day. It's made of marble, and as you walk those steps, you think of those who've walked before you. You think of the c...”

“Some of us find 'relaxing' to be, in itself, nerve-racking. If we aren't doing something useful or, at least, that seems useful, we feel guilty, impatient, and mortal.”

“Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.”

“Haircuts are never good. You always end up being unhappy.”

“The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the culprit is fear, women are afraid of one thing, men are afraid of a different thing; the...”

“The fundamental issue is the moral issue.”

“You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all; it's just your sucky personality.”

“I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.”

“I'm not a pop star. I don't feel like one. I'm always joking that I'm actually an eight-year-old boy dreaming about being a pop star.”

“Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.”

“As president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, I have seen private equity firms plunder company after company, taking rich fees for themselves and cutting costs until there's no...”

“The music, for me, doesn't come on a schedule. I don't know when it's going to come, and when it does, I want it out.”

“History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.”

“Money, for me, is just to create bigger and better things. A lot of guys in the deejaying world flaunt it, but I don't see any use in that. I don't need anything. I live in hotels. Most of m...”

“For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label.”

“A friend is someone who has your back. Those in the military refer to it as, 'I got your six.' My closest friend on 'The Five' is Dana Perino.”

“When I moved to New York City from Texas at 22, amateur hour was over. As a newly grown-up person, I vowed I would wear dresses and skirts, wool trousers occasionally, and heels always.”

“'Constitutional' is an unashamedly educational podcast from the 'Washington Post.' Sub-titled 'a podcast about the story of America,' it's presented by Lillian Cunningham, who engages schola...”

“Like a ceaseless fire Over all the experiences, Vast sensation and desires, Every emotion in essence!”

“I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U...”

“Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and ke...”

“You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.”

“Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.”

“I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.”

“When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle atop some crumbling building, spring to life a resuscitated angel.”

“We do ourselves as politicians no favours if we are seen to peddle unachievable moonshine.”

“The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally f...”

“We need more of those characters that lead by example for people coming up next to us.”

“International carriers need to be given greater role in our skies on all routes like several other large countries to make our aviation industry more efficient and competitive and prevent ar...”

“I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.”

“I'm not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don't play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I've always thought it better when one of the mu...”

“I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.”

“You learn to understand it, but if you step back, you do think it is either strange or unfair. But I know that if you don't score, play well or win, you are wrong to have a helicopter and fl...”

“Flying from the U.S. to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.”