Every accepted public quote

“The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.”

“I believe that if we don't make moves to get people who don't play games to understand them, then the position of video games in society will never improve. Society's image of games will rem...”

“Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for their families and their future.”

“Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with anothe...”

“When you don't know what the answer is, you know *Who* the answer is.”

“Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.”

“I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up.”

“If you go to Singapore or Amsterdam or Seoul or Buenos Aires or Islamabad or Johannesburg or Tampa or Istanbul or Kyoto, you'll find that the people differ wildly in the way they dress, in t...”

“My first job was as a groundskeeper at the local ballpark in the town where I grew up. There was a lot of down time, and I got to drive tractor, so it was pretty good gig. I've also taught c...”

“Our situations... are very different. The nature of our politics is different. I don't deny, though, that political cycles, which are observable in the United States, are sometimes observabl...”

“When you're making the film, you don't really think the audience; it's only when you start editing that you really start to became aware of your audience because you're thinking of how you c...”

“As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that you're pure within and will find happiness once more.”

“The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eating a carrot.”

“I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.”

“In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.”

“The Process is never going to end. It's an ongoing thing. I don't think it's ever going to stop. As I have explained before, it's a process for making it to the playoffs, it's another one to...”

“The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.”

“In the late '30's when I was in college, physics - and in particular, nuclear physics - was the most exciting field in the world.”

“I am allergic to a certain kind of glue. Most eyelash glues are terrible, the glue in acrylic nails. I get a rash up my arm and face.”

“The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American h...”

“I enjoy taking part in footballing events that are for social causes because, in my view, inspiring children through sport is a way of keeping their bodies and minds healthy as well as helpi...”

“[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our own sake,...”

“Self discovery is the most empowering time of your life, you remember who you are and you become the best version of yourself but what they forget to tell you is, to get to a point of pleasu...”

“The top end are still making bucket loads while maintaining the illusion of the American dream: that if you work hard enough, you can make a fortune. Meanwhile, the working and middle classe...”

“What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.”

“Winning is an amazing feeling. You don't get that in business; you don't get that in many things.”

“In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.”

“As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.”

“In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the hu...”

“Kids want you to take them to whatever kid movie is opening, and you just hope it's good because you're going to buy a ticket, no matter what. If it's no good, you kind of drape your arm ove...”

“I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.”

“People might talk more about Real Madrid and Barcelona than about Atletico, but what matters to me is what happens on the pitch. We compete with them year after year. I am not interested abo...”

“I like work, I like song writing, and I like the history of Atlantic Records. They've sat in the studio with so many artists - like Ray Charles, for example - and created something amazing....”

“Your ability to make me feel like I was less than I was, took awhile to recover from. But after ripping my own self worth to shreds for so long, I realized that I wasn't less just because I...”

“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”

“I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.”

“I've know Justin since I was a child. I went to school with his younger brother Michel, who died in the Avalanche. But Justin and I are four years apart - when you're 12 and 16, it's worlds...”

“I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.”

“I go running three times a week - outside in the park, come rain or shine, and I hate every moment of it. I hate everything about it. But I know it's important for health reasons and the rea...”

“I spend long days wearing a corset - but no pain, no gain.”

“I don't know anything about Osama Bin Laden that doesn't come to me through the filter of the West and its propaganda.”

“I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.”

“It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.”

“Gay marriage was a trick: it's a tool to tell people to bake cakes. Laws are based on morality, so if it's illegal for a Catholic to refuse a ceremony, you are saying that Catholicism is imm...”

“It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.”

“In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to avoid using my computer as much more than a typewriter and a post office. I rely on my life...”

“People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.”

“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.”