Every accepted public quote

“I don't want retired schoolteachers or any other good Americans to be duped by fraudulent organizations into giving money, thinking it is going to go to disabled vets, when in fact it's not...”

“Unification is always more progressive than division.”

“Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.”

“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.”

“Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.”

“I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting...”

“But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.”

“It doesn't matter which year a player is born in, whether you are 19 or 20 - you have to be agile. You have to accept your shortcomings.”

“Strangely, I have a huge aversion to movies that try to teach healthy people an abusive lesson about the darkness in the world.”

“My parents moved out to California in 1968 from Ohio in a VW station wagon pulling a little trailer. I was 4 months old. They were following the energy out here.”

“For My Beloved As I hold your hands in mine Know that I hold your heart as well. As I gaze into your eyes Know that I see into our shared future. As I feel your heart beat Know that mine dan...”

“Audiences change because life changes. Countries change geographically, climatically, socially and morally. Many things happen, and cinema, in a sense, reflects what's happening in the world...”

“Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would...”

“God listens to our weeping when the occasion itself is beyond our knowledge, but still within His love and power.”

“There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any o...”

“Parents who obsess about every detail of child-rearing and orchestrate their children's 'resumes' may run themselves ragged while their own personal identities and adult relationships wither...”

“I'm not 6'3, 6'4, but I got a big heart, and that's it.”

“I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.”

“I've been fascinated by the world ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential' by Anthony Bourdain. I've watched 'Top Chef' and watched interviews with chefs on 'Charlie Rose'... I thought they'...”

“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.”

“And if you're singing to someone, or if they're singing along, and suddenly you're in harmony, then it's actually making a huge difference on a subatomic level that is actually transforming...”

“I can work 5-10 hrs. straight with no problem, though I do take towards the end of a 6-8 hr. work stint some time out to beat myself severely in the gym with weights/aerobics, including inte...”

“When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.”

“I'd never be tied down for five years interviewing TV personalities.”

“My style is to have a big vision, a big commitment.”

“For fast-acting relief try slowing down.”

“In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.”

“Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat.”

“I've been very busy working on the ABC Family sitcom, 'Baby Daddy.'”

“I believe that visualization is one of the most powerful means of achieving personal goals.”

“It's not a natural process, 'American Idol,' but it does great things for the people that are on that show. If you don't walk away from it with some kind of positive outlook or find an oppor...”

“It never before happened that the rich ruling and more educated minority, which has the most influence on the masses, not only disbelieved the existing religion but was convinced that no rel...”

“The Sun never sets. It is we who rise think to shine.”

“I always have been an entertainer, whether it's been joking or performing for people. And I always thought I had a talent, because I could rap and I could sing, and I did write. And all the...”

“For me, Heaven is evoking emotions through sound.”

“I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to...”

“To Suspect your Own Mortality is to Know the Beginning of Terror; To Learn Irrefutably that you are mortal is to Know the End of Terror.”

“Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.”

“Fashion is a strange world sometimes. Amazing, but strange.”

“Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, w...”

“It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop s...”

“The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can...”

“I had seen 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' and I thought that was a different kind of film than I'd seen before, with that kind of editing and slick camera movements.”

“Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental sit...”

“At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.”

“It's been a process of evolving within a family company to get the autonomy I now have from a boss like my father. If you're sitting there waiting for a pat on the back, you're going to be w...”

“Without prayer, how can there be progress?”

“Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing.”