Every accepted public quote

“I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room...”

“Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.”

“The Qu'ran is God's song, not ours, not even Muhammad's. To allow such a song to pass through one's body, however imperfectly, is to discover that the instrument is transformed by the music.”

“My dream role would be someone anything that Meryl Streep can do. 'Julia and Julia' - I thought that was beautiful. She just had the essence of her. To truly become someone, invoking emotion...”

“My Fiat Multipla is bright green - it looks like a frog. I look like a monkey, so between the two of us, we are a hideous prospect. It's the ugliest car on the road but the most practical, a...”

“If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.”

“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.”

“These properties that get made into movies, some are easier than others. When they first said, 'Yeah, they're making a movie out of Lego,' I said, 'Lego what? What does that even mean?' And...”

“I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.”

“My home and my upbringing and just the problems in my family within my extended family were such that it truly was a mix of the good, bad, and the ugly.”

“I have a fear of tubes and tunnels. Going through any tunnel causes me great anxiety.”

“I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy.”

“We will explore the sacred relationships that exist between science, religion and everything in-between. It is the in-between territory that is oft overlooked, seldom realized, an area that...”

“The young people of India will build a strong and powerful nation, a nation that is politically mature and economically strong, a nation whose people enjoy both a high quality of life as wel...”

“The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.”

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”

“I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' anything or not. In a way I may believe, deep down, that doing nothing acts as a brake on 't...”

“One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.”

“The BBC's television, radio and online services remain an important part of British culture and the fact the BBC continues to thrive amongst audiences at home and abroad is testament to a pr...”

“As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.”

“'Remember the Time' and 'You Rock My World' from Michael Jackson were two of my favorite songs ever. My mom used to bump them all the time.”

“I read 'Backstage' a lot when I first was unleashed into the world from drama school. And what was great about it was that if I was using it or not, it was just nice to know what was happeni...”

“I see 'Eligible' as a homage, and I see 'Pride and Prejudice' as a perfect book. You can dispute whether this project is a good idea, but you can't dispute my fondness for the novel.”

“In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital 'S,' is not virtue - it's faith: faith in a God who draws all to himself in his resurrection.”

“You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.”

“I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible.”

“We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico.”

“She looks at me and blames me for all of the ways that you don't love her.”

“A lot of people hear me attacking their certainty. I don't have any interest in doing that. I'm interested in penetrating the meaning of certainty.”

“I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn't express to an individual, I would express...”

“London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer to the process, to street style, to...”

“It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of...”

“I made a movie when I was 15 years old with all my friends. This is when IMDb was a little more lax with its proceedings, so it's listed as one of my projects. I was 15 years old; it's a ter...”

“The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.”

“People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'”

“Delayed energy projects and regulatory hurdles to domestic oil production not only cost the United States economy billions of dollars and millions of jobs, but they also stand in the way of...”

“If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.”

“I've been... chased by paparazzi, and they run lights, and they chase you and harass you the whole time. It happens all over the world, and it has certainly gotten worse. You don't know what...”

“Laws were changed and regulations repealed until an Enron can set sail without responsibility, supervision, or accountability.”

“History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has got to be shaken. In a sense, nothing tha...”

“The restaurant business had a profound effect on my future and that of my two brothers. When we were able to stand on a stool to reach the sink, we washed dishes, and later, when we could se...”

“We are open to the world; the world is at our doorstep. It washes in, not just through the windows, but we are immersed in it completely - through the Internet, through the media, through pe...”

“I try not to be neurotic; I try to create and present healthy body image.”

“I pray for forgiveness. For help and guidance. To be a better person. For the health of my family. For the world to be a better place.”

“I don't want to stop and build protectionism out there, but I certainly don't mind tough negotiation with our trade partners.”

“I write an actual script rather quickly - a draft will take me two weeks - but I write a lot of drafts. My big thing is I don't re-read. When I write, I never re-read back. I'll send it, bec...”

“I'm showing the people that a Negro can run for office.”

“I'm like pixie grunge. The perfect blend of sugar and spice.”