Every accepted public quote

“The only advice I would give young guys is to keep your ears and eyes open. Never see yourself as a finished product.”

“Glyphosate is only one of more than 80,000 registered commercially produced chemicals in the U.S. Some of these compounds, such as PFOA and the one I made my name investigating, hexavalent c...”

“Panda - We're not really selling Chinese food, you know. Our real purpose is about developing people.”

“Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness”

“We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your n...”

“I'm a big-guy guy. I look at guys like Shaq, Ben Wallace, guys who play inside and play tough. I don't pay much attention to the little guys; I like the big guys who do the dirty work.”

“Nothing shall part us in our love till Thanatos (Death) at his appointed hour removed us from the light of day.”

“Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.”

“When I was 10, I asked my parents for a set of weights. I had my Charles Atlas book to go along with that. Every time we went to the grocery store, I'd rush to the magazine area and read the...”

“Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.”

“I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it...”

“I started auditioning, and the first job I ever got was understudying Amy Ryan in 'The Sisters Rosensweig' on Broadway, directed by Daniel Sullivan. I was 18 years old.”

“From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.”

“Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.”

“Entrepreneurship is a lonely road to greatness.”

“The sun gives us light, but the moon provides inspiration. If you look at the sun without shielding your eyes, you'll go blind. If you look at the moon without covering your eyes, you'll bec...”

“I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.”

“To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks. To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.”

“Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That...”

“Squid experts have been debating for some time about whether the giant squid is a passive predator that just floats around in the water and waits to bump into something. I was never one to i...”

“Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto...”

“Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.”

“We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us...”

“My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.”

“I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.”

“Sherlock' changed the perception of me. I have these cheekbones and this face that suggest very middle-class or period-drama roles. I want to show everyone there's much more to me than Irene...”

“In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.”

“I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.”

“How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?”

“Prosecutors frequently overcharge, load up charges on individual defendants, knowing that three strikes laws and harsh mandatory minimum sentences will force people to plea bargain and essen...”

“It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques...”

“I'm dead fussy about food: I don't eat junk.”

“Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix.”

“It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.”

“Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.”

“I'm depressed when I don't get to do music. Having to go back to doing something I don't like and am not passionate about would be a tough thing.”

“Only dumb people are happy.”

“It's been a challenge for me my whole life in that my insides don't necessarily match my outsides... People try to strike up a conversation with me about Dungeons & Dragons or comic books, a...”

“We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.”

“There's no God higher than truth.”

“When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except...”

“The only question left to be settled now is, are women persons?”

“I think that some of the most amazing places to be or to grow up are the places right outside of great cities, because you're sort of constantly in this suspended state of, like, looking ins...”

“My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think Thy answers make me what I am.”

“Black people created rock music, it's a fact. Black people created bluegrass and rock and roll way before Elvis Presley and The Beatles.”

“I am not yours, not lost in you, Not lost, although I long to be Lost as a candle lit at noon, Lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still A spirit beautiful and bright...”

“Don't believe the hype; don't believe what it tells you on your driver's license. You are an extension of the power that created this whole universe.”

“There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan.”