Every accepted public quote

“Our waterboarding program is based on the U.S. military training program... tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen were waterboarded pursuant to this program to prepare them for the possibilit...”

“I like the thought of gaining revenge over WBC light-heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson, who beat me in 2013.”

“My father, John Marcellus Huston, was a director renowned for his adventurous style and audacious nature.”

“They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did i...”

“I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.”

“If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.”

“When I first went to school, I was fighting all the time. The soldier mentality was still in me. I kept getting expelled. I found it hard to take instructions from anyone who wasn't a milita...”

“I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.”

“It's my privilege to work with an actor like Vikram who gets into the skin of the character he is playing, so much so that after the shoot it takes him quite some time to get back to his rea...”

“Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.”

“My children have been my friends and they share anything and everything with me.”

“No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wi...”

“Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.”

“No aeroplane you've ever gotten into had less than thousands of flights before they took their first passenger. Because vehicles are unsafe at first.”

“I used to watch 'SNL' when I was babysitting, after I put the kids to bed. It was the Gilda Radner and Bill Murray era. I loved it.”

“The difference between online and offline commerce is basically blurring and disappearing.”

“Ohio State is an up and down team.”

“The way I see it, our natural human instinct is to fight or flee that which we perceive to be dangerous. Although this mechanism evolved to protect us, it serves as the single greatest limit...”

“I learned that you have to say that you're a filmmaker. You're not a screenwriter; you're not a director for hire. You've got to take charge. You're a filmmaker, and you're going to make a f...”

“I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.”

“I think with boys... it's all about shoes. I've seen so many little boys, and their outfits are so cute, and then their moms put kind of dorky shoes on them.”

“Diabetes mellitus is due to a deficiency of the internal secretion of the pancreas. The main principle of treatment is, therefore, to correct this deficiency.”

“If anyone is calling me to choreograph a dance, they know my style, and they know I am a taskmaster. They want to present themselves as a good dancer before their fans, and that is why they...”

“Growing up, money is important. And now I have a career where I'm making enough money to live. But I really want to give it to my parents, my family, charities, and people around me.”

“There is no avoiding the realities of the information age. Its effects manifest differently in different sectors, but the drivers of speed and interdependence will impact us all. Organizatio...”

“Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.”

“Americans deserve to feel secure in their own lives, in their own middle-class aspirations, before you go to them and say, 'We're going to have to enforce navigable sea lanes in the South Ch...”

“I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.”

“'Socialize' means we turn more of our personal powers over to Big Brother, not free enterprise.”

“A director is a director. We shouldn't categorize one into a this or that director.”

“Spending on largely ineffective programs - although well intentioned - is a detriment to fostering real job growth.”

“Knowledge and human power are synonymous.”

“Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.”

“During the Holocene, we undoubtedly altered our environment significantly, clearing land, diverting water and building great cities.”

“My mother was widowed twice before she turned forty.”

“A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.”

“Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.”

“We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as t...”

“I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and t...”

“The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.”

“I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run...”

“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”

“I'd love to feature for the Barbarians. I'd love to win a Champions Cup, and I'd love to get to another World Cup and make a fist of it: get to a World Cup final at least and see what could...”

“That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.”

“Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like...”

“There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their compa...”

“You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment,...”

“That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.”