Every accepted public quote

“My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.”

“It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.”

“Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.”

“Oddly enough, I find it quite engaging to be working with a female when I'm directing. It's kind of interesting.”

“Everything about the Kardashian family's public image centers around shock and dysfunction - the very image the trans people are trying to shed.”

“The issue most on Hoosiers' minds is job creation, job retention, and household income.”

“I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young age. I did organize an astronomy club for my friends at the age of 11. We would meet once a...”

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.”

“What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.”

“Every reign must submit to a greater reign.”

“I was doing a wee gig at the Edinburgh Fringe, and while I was walking down to the show from the train station, someone stopped and asked if they could get a picture with me. This was about...”

“I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.”

“I believe that a strong man makes a strong country.”

“When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.”

“I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing so I became quite comfortable being by myself, exploring. The world was my private pl...”

“I have to stay in soaps to pay my bills to Kodak.”

“The great thing is, it's not just about me and my impact. What you want to do is come in here and be a great teammate, lead by your excellence. That's all I've been trying to do.”

“When all is done, I will transcend in accordance with The Divine.”

“I really liked writing rhyming poems and plays.”

“My parents were in high school and college in the '80s, so let's just say I've heard some stuff, man. We listen to a lot of music and watch lots of great films, but the real context they pro...”

“It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.”

“I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.”

“When you learn a Bruce Springsteen song, it's like learning to ride a bike. You don't forget it.”

“Everyone has a different view on football, but I didn't have a fear that I wouldn't be good enough in England.”

“While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.”

“You want to be drafted high, but to be drafted high into an organization like the Kansas City Chiefs, it's like a dream to me.”

“Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.”

“By the end of it, you never know how it's going to turn out. Hopefully if I pick the right songs and put the right melodies on it and all the collaboration works out. it's a win-win situatio...”

“The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also br...”

“I'm a big fan of, like, wearing old, vintage slips and stuff as outdoor wear. I got, like, a pair of these little silk bloomers. I think they were even, like, considered underwear in the '40...”

“Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.”

“Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always bee...”

“Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.”

“Placing limits on carbon pollution from power plants is about ensuring that we have clean air to breathe and communities that are safe to live in. Carbon pollution limits are about defending...”

“I don't look at Hollywood as a big break. Indian film stands on its own.”

“I made the varsity team as a freshman at 15. Then, I tore a tendon and never fully recovered. I was a shortstop, then third baseman, then second baseman.”

“Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.”

“I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and...”

“I always make a joke that they transplanted Martina McBride's eyes and put them in my head.”

“Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.”

“Great countries are those that produce great people.”

“One of the things I think a lot about, I am perhaps a great example of the enlightened immigration policy of this country where I was able to come here to study and then stay back and work a...”

“I believe you'll see a low Earth orbit space travel business begin.”

“With the success of Immature, I wanted to start the group B2K, which ended up being one of the biggest urban boy bands in history.”

“Children are the bridge to heaven.”

“I'm not sure anything makes you an outright good person or bad person - that we're all capable of doing good or bad things. And if you want to know how much good you can do, and how much hur...”

“Look, Orrin Hatch is not a bad guy. But he is an old guy, and he's a lifer politician.”

“That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the accept...”