Every accepted public quote

“We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.”

“David Harrington, who's the violinist and founder of Kronos, is a super open-minded and adventurous guy.”

“It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.”

“With everything it has to offer, Las Vegas is an obvious destination for tourists, as proven by the over 40 million visitors the city welcomes per year.”

“I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.”

“I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications.”

“When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.”

“Dedicate your life to solitude and mortify your members which are upon the earth.”

“Don't nobody wanna talk about or hear about somebody donating money to a charity. You wanna hear about what Bin Laden is doing and what you think is on his mind.”

“True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.”

“I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story with preconceptions or prejudice.”

“I try to get in one, one-hour spinning class per week.”

“I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I'm just a cold-blooded investigator.”

“A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.”

“I tell young people that people aren't just going to flock to you as your mentors. You have to seek them out. It could be your next-door neighbor; it could be somebody upstairs from you, som...”

“When I lost my brother, it kind of messed me up because in my city, I know everybody. I kind of felt untouchable.”

“Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this li...”

“Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn't address the underlying causes.”

“We know that our cells are speaking to each other.”

“How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns.”

“I have a theory, which is that the idea of a roast is to go to this forbidden, uncomfortable, almost performance-art-level shock place, but because we're so regularly shocked and offended to...”

“In the Gospels, we are reminded, 'The very hairs of your head are all numbered.' And your numbered hairs, like your numbered days, recede daily.”

“One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.”

“Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.”

“If I wasn't doing candy, I'd want to create the best rescue animal-shelter organization. Otherwise, the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson were so much a part of my childhood, and Janet and I hav...”

“People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets with the same vigor with which they at...”

“Guns can turn you into an insider even if you're an outsider by nature, recruiting you into a loose fraternity of people who feel embattled and defensive and are primally eager to win allies...”

“As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25...”

“When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.”

“Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.”

“Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.”

“Very early in my career, I thought I had to conform to one style of leadership - lead by being the loudest one in the room, with the sharpest elbows.”

“Kabla ya Elimu iliumbwa Akili so chakufanya ni kutumia Akili ambayo ilimpokea Elimu.Acha sababu,Tumia akili uliyopewa na Mungu!”

“I like a quiet life.”

“Tech companies have a finite lifespan: For the successful ones, an IPO or exit is never more than a few years off. But by recruiting locally and developing homegrown talent, companies can bu...”

“I financed and made my own films from the start. My path has been autonomous and independent, so I don't have any horror stories about glass ceilings and expectations and tense studio meetin...”

“Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.”

“And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get made,' so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and,...”

“History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.”

“Guitars, there was rock 'n' roll. Saxophone, jazz. Now we have the computer and there's this electronic thing happening in music that is somewhat superhuman.”

“Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole...”

“Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.”

“Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.”

“You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?”

“The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints.”

“I am a practicing Catholic, not an evangelical Christian, but in 2016 I stood with millions of evangelicals who decided that Donald Trump would be the best person to fight for our religious...”

“I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.”

“Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.”