Every accepted public quote

“In some ways, 'Mansfield Park' is 'Pride and Prejudice' turned inside out.”

“The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man f...”

“Anyone concerned with the broken politics in Washington needs to look no further than Mitch McConnell's cynical manipulation of the rules and obstruction of the NLRB.”

“I don't know how we can compare the old watches we know with the functionality and the capability of the Apple Watch.”

“The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.”

“Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.”

“A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you've seen it before, and it's a new version of it.”

“You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore.”

“When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.”

“I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.”

“I have always had trouble paying attention. When I was supposed to be at work, I'd be doodling. But then when I was home, trying to draw, I would be working on math problems. I never end up...”

“When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”

“Love makes life worth living.”

“When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a stunning actress. She came out of her shell. She was herself again: this very independent, f...”

“Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is the...”

“In baseball, you pack your uniform in the clubhouse after a ball game, and you see it hanging up in your locker when you get to your next city.”

“I love winning, and I love the challenge.”

“People understand the simplicity of violence, and martial arts has always been about the more efficient way to deliver said violence upon an adversary. I've kept that philosophy as the focal...”

“I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.”

“I've got allergy pills upstairs in my room, and it says 'For Cat Work' right on it.”

“As long as people remember me forever, that will be enough for me.”

“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, and I intend to continue to push my country to respect the rights of all its citizens. I will not be silenced.”

“The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.”

“I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.”

“i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk on air through vacant lots”

“I do expect a lot from myself, but it's also a balance of being... positive and also pushing yourself.”

“Democrats are fighting for a new direction that includes protecting Social Security as well as making healthcare affordable, bringing down the high cost of gasoline, and making higher educat...”

“What I will remember most from my time in NATO is meeting children in the countries where I've gone to, to Moscow and to Kiev, I've met school children.”

“Having been aware of the Red Sox since the 1946 World Series, having been growled at by Ted Williams as a young reporter in 1960, having been present at the horror of 1986 and the comeback o...”

“I just played one of the bad guys in Hercules 3D, and I had cornrows. People moved away from me in elevators, that's for sure. I wore them for about three months. After a while, they get a l...”

“Hungary needs Russia.”

“When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'”

“Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.”

“No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.”

“If the West Point class of 1915 is called 'the class the stars fell on' for the number of World War II generals it produced, my junior-high class of 1950 is the class a ton of bricks fell on...”

“My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources.”

“You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.”

“The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States.”

“It is important that the masses realize that some aspects of science are blatantly crooked.”

“I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I write. When I put the drill bit inside my heart, sometimes I come up with something light and fr...”

“Without the materials needed to manufacture new technologies, our future innovators will not have the resources necessary to tackle the biggest challenges we face in today's society. I stron...”

“I think 'Candy Crush' may be fading in popularity, but there's always something new that's popping up.”

“When I was growing up, we had cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens - a whole menagerie.”

“I've learned to recognize, a lot of it forced through the process of recovery, that I'm wired wrong in certain ways; the chemical balance of my brain is off in terms of depression a little b...”

“I can see how you could get dragged into the bad stuff, but I've got good friends around me, good family. I think I've got my head screwed on.”

“People are frustrated all over the country, whether they're in Oklahoma or Oregon or San Diego or San Francisco or L.A. or D.C. or New York or Omaha or wherever.”

“Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.”

“People say I look so happy - and I say, 'That's the Botox.'”