Every accepted public quote

“From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.”

“Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Help to make earth happy like the heaven up above.”

“As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.”

“All I really care about is that I'm being honest and I'm real and I'm coming from a real place. There's a part of me that's a total cad and a part of me that's also a family man.”

“It is not the world outside that dictates our circumstances; rather it is the world inside us that creates the reality of our experiences”

“As a painfully shy kid, my fun time was locking myself away and watching movie after movie after movie. Watching a good performance, to me, was like getting a new toy.”

“I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy beh...”

“I've been in thousands of conversations dripping with misogyny. I've initiated many of those conversations myself. From my fraternity roots to my bachelor days in New York, I know I have not...”

“In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.”

“Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.”

“Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.”

“If you don't embrace the bad, you can never truly embrace the good and be grateful and have gratitude for the tiniest things.”

“When I was fourteen, Mom and Dad sent me to St. Joseph High School, the Catholic school up the hill from our place, housed in a 1950s-era tan brick building sometimes confused for a light in...”

“Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.”

“I don't have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed.”

“I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition....”

“I just love football. I've always enjoyed doing it - being outside with my mates, getting really muddy and dirty and smelly. It's something I always loved.”

“The hook is a word or an idea spoken by one character which gives the next character something to hook onto when he responds or, like a trapeze artist, gives him something to swing from on h...”

“True delicacy is not a fragile thing.”

“Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood...”

“Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I watch the colors blur; people and faces all become a massive wash.”

“'Jeopardy!' contestant Ken Jennings' winning streak has been nothing short of remarkable.”

“Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.”

“Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis.”

“Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.”

“Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. Bu...”

“Trump is playing to an audience of people who think of themselves less as Republicans and more as Americans - moderates, conservatives, and independents - who feel that the Republican Party...”

“I fundamentally believe in term limits, for Congress, presidents, and board members.”

“Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.”

“Strong policies and innovation can make the difference for energy security, climate change, air quality, and universal access to modern energy services in parallel - in short, building a sec...”

“Going into live action, the perception I had was that to be a director, you had to be loud, you had be physically fit, wear cool hats, have a beard, and yell, 'Action!' really loud. And I'm...”

“Goodhue wanted visitors to feel more than they were in a pretty building. He wanted them to feel they were part of a three-dimensional meditation on the power of human intellect and the pote...”

“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”

“I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.”

“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”

“Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.”

“And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the...”

“I really like The Catcher in the Rye a lot.”

“We have rocked the ozone radically, man. They could probably fix the ozone if everybody stopped what they were doing and they put some cement up there.”

“I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awesome.' That's not wh...”

“America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.”

“I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people ar...”

“There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does...”

“We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.”

“My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.”

“We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.”

“If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.”

“Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.”