Every accepted public quote

“I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having bett...”

“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”

“I was so fanatical about trying to save wildlife... I was unable to accept that we couldn't solve this problem of thousands of years, of wherever humans operated, the environment deteriorate...”

“Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.”

“Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved ones for their own good because we think we know better t...”

“I don't ever want to be famous. I never want to live that life. I genuinely hate the fact that I would be stopped for a picture or an autograph all the time.”

“From the very start, I thought there were four key principles that the agency should focus on: driving private investment, driving innovation, promoting competition, and protecting consumers...”

“Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.”

“As iconic a band as Metallica has become, I think sometimes we forget just how raw they were in the beginning of their career, and to a 15-year-old kid like me, it was just shattering. I mea...”

“Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.”

“And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.”

“Growing up, all of my friends would set their schedules to the showing of kung fu movies on TV.”

“As a result of the billions of dollars flowing into Iran after the JCPOA, the Iranian regime is able to increase its support to terrorist group groups like Hezbollah.”

“The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.”

“I think it doesn't matter if you are the best surfer in the world. I'm going to try to be the best surfer I can be. It's not all about competing and being the best. It's more about having fu...”

“At the same time, reading an action script... It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don't know.”

“In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it for a long time.”

“I think kindness is actually under-rated. Especially with Silicon Valley - and probably in business in general - it's seen as being a pushover or ineffective as a leader.”

“Three times a year, there's Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial Day weekends. You go and take a look at the new board gam...”

“In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.”

“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode...”

“Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.”

“We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.”

“The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.”

“Thinking of the dismissal by Leicester, the first thing that comes to mind is a sense of surprise even more than of bitterness.”

“The Only Person You Should Try To Be Better Than Is The Person You Were Yesterday”

“Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...”

“As a mom, I'm going to be out there still fighting to make sure that every beautiful child has good schools, same communities, and a chance to succeed because God has given everybody unique...”

“When I used to say I did dressage, I got blank looks. No one had a clue what I was on about.”

“The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.”

“I'm 10-12 years into life as an out gay man, and I'm a different person. I think there are things about my journey that might be useful to other people, and coming up with a hit record on it...”

“There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only...”

“I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.”

“I remember a lot of conversations where I was constantly hearing, 'You've gotta do this movie so you can do that movie. You've gotta make a big movie so you can make a small movie.' But I ca...”

“Danger can never by overcome without taking risks.”

“We're the only ethnic group that says, 'Hey, if you go to jail, it gives you street cred.'”

“I've been all over the world on my own because, as a scientist, you travel a great deal if your work is reasonably successful or published. I get invitations to go to all sorts of strange co...”

“Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue.”

“If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all b...”

“I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.”

“If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.”

“Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that...”

“I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.”

“So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.”

“Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemplo...”

“I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music...”

“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.”

“People regularly practice playing a sport like golf or basketball - but few people think about 'practicing being successful.' I had practiced meeting the Queen of England - what I would wear...”