Every accepted public quote

“There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.”

“You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down...”

“Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.”

“Sometimes we misinterpret, sometimes we misunderstand, sometimes we make mistakes.”

“Quit your job to saved your life and your health. No job is worth risking physical or mental health over. Get out.”

“Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.”

“There was a beautiful time...”

“I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.”

“Our government workers should be treated fairly and appropriately. They should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.”

“If I could play Jean Valjean, I think that would be the pinnacle.”

“How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?”

“It's shocking to think of the universe now without Robin Williams' energy, even muted.”

“To me, as a physician, when 1.78 million of our high school kids have tried an e-cigarette, and a lot of them are using them regularly ... that's like watching someone harm hundreds of thous...”

“Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.”

“I suck at sleeping.”

“I'd already been doing work in the community... But when it comes to how to actually amplify your voice, when I saw what Colin Kaepernick did and the amount of coverage and conversation arou...”

“A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future...”

“Ultimately, if someone's paying hard-earned money to see me play live, they don't want a rant about what's happening on the other side of the world. They don't want to know which way they sh...”

“With faith, you can overcome your fears.”

“I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research.”

“All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts.”

“From age 7 to about 37, I had a normal life and not a very easy one.”

“To really live a life in search of knowledge, you must admit when you are wrong.”

“We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.”

“I think my gift lies in being a startup entrepreneur and creating environments and experiences.”

“You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.”

“People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.”

“Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover the...”

“Life happens at the level of events, not words.”

“My mother is a Trekkie, and we're from San Diego, so I was going to Comic-Con when I was, like, 7 years old.”

“I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.”

“I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is...”

“The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.”

“One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do sometimes take it for granted.”

“My generation is under-entertained.”

“I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.”

“If I were going to teach a course, it would be called Don't Breathe Your Own Exhaust.”

“I choose to believe there is a better way to do a PR stunt or better way to succeed without stepping on top of others,throwing them under the bus or bringing others down.”

“Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.”

“Under the Clean Air Act, the EPA has the ability to more stringently regulate dust. If the EPA determines more stringent standards are necessary, family farmers and ranchers, as well as rura...”

“Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.”

“When I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don...”

“I love making handmade gifts.”

“The constancy of the blood sugar level is maintained by a complex physiological mechanism, a homeostatic mechanism of the same order as those which maintain the body temperature, the blood p...”

“Like manchurian candidates, we have been made into manchurian consumers, who subconsciously buy when we are triggered by our brand masters.”

“Surround yourself with people who are going to support you regardless of what your sexual orientation is, and you can have a beautiful life filled with love.”

“The science (vignan) of religion and the knowledge (gnan) of religion are different things. There is liberation through science!”

“It is only through silent awareness that our physical and mental nature can change. This change is completely spontaneous. If we make an effort to change we do no more than shift our attenti...”