Every accepted public quote

“I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be someth...”

“But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.”

“What better time to write a memoir than the big 3-0?”

“There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.”

“The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.”

“I wanted Cathy and Irving to actually say 'I do' and be pronounced husband and wife on Feb. 5, which is my mom's birthday.”

“I have an hourglass shape, and I think it's important to understand your body type and your personality type. Then make whatever is on trend and in fashion work for you.”

“Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.”

“Louis CK knows that just because a joke is using space as a resource instead of something to be crammed like a hamper, this doesn't mean a story isn't happening.”

“Sometimes wonderful things did happen, out of the blue and for no apparent reason. And what else could you do but go along with it and just be grateful that the person you loved more than an...”

“When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.”

“Consciousness-one level is understanding where we are in space. Consciousness two is where we understand our position in society: who's top dog, who's underdog and who's in the middle. And t...”

“A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?”

“They kissed in the middle of the sidewalk, letting the crowds of people flow around them like water around an island.”

“If you're at school, children who play football, you give everything to win... If you don't succeed, that's a huge disappointment. Then it's okay to be sad, but better times are coming.”

“I've asked the Department of the Interior inspector general to look into how much manpower and taxpayer money has been spent responding to ALEC-supported bills that force federal land manage...”

“Love is a fickle thing. But I still believe in it.”

“For the most part, it was never assumed that I was gay, and I've had people be sort of surprised that I was gay or act apologetic like they didn't know, which would just make me really uncom...”

“My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond their control. They feed these children...”

“Romance Is An Open Book”

“I don't remember Bill Walsh being old. I remember young Bill Walsh. He wasn't gray-haired, and neither was I when we first met. His legacy will live on. Bill Walsh's name and his accomplishm...”

“I have like 250 letters that I have to whittle it down to 150. Only then do you have the whole overview of a book. When it was finally edited, at least my take was, everybody's lying. You kn...”

“I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't...”

“Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.”

“I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.”

“Higher capital requirements increase bank costs, and at least some of those costs will be passed along to bank customers and shareholders. But in the longer term, stronger prudential require...”

“'We really shouldn't look like a church.' I've heard that so much I want to vomit. 'Why?' I ask. 'Do you want your bank to look like a bank? Do you want your doctor's office to look like a d...”

“What destroyed the Republican Party isn't Trump. It's the obedience to Trump from servile leaders like McConnell and Ryan who could have put a check on him. They have gotten their place in p...”

“My father worked in high-energy nuclear physics, and my mother was a mycologist and a geneticist. After both parents completed postdoctoral fellowships in San Diego in 1962, my father took a...”

“I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit,...”

“A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.”

“I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.”

“I've always wanted to work with Sean Connery - there's something about his style, and his calm, cool demeanor that I find intriguing.”

“I'm terrified of getting involved with someone who disappoints me or leaves me empty and alone. I'm terrified of rejection, so I set my expectations so high that they can never be met, and I...”

“Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.”

“Whoever resorts regularly to the lessons of Holy Scripture as an apt pupil will take the Savior into her group, and the children will perceive that He is present and that He assists in their...”

“For citizens to become fully engaged in holding their leadership to account, accurate information is required to see where action is needed, to measure the results of policies and programmes...”

“Teenage years are hard. And, having taught high school for a number of years, I think they're particularly hard on teenage girls. The most self-conscious human beings on the planet are teena...”

“What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?”

“There are not enough days in forever to allow me to fully express the depth of my love for you.”

“I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.”

“I find impressionists slightly annoying, really.”

“I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love.”

“When the Founding Fathers arrived here in Philadelphia to forge a new nation, they didn't come as Democrats or Republicans or to nominate a presidential candidate. They came as patriots who...”

“Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.”

“I am very friendly and affable.”

“There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.”

“When I saw that Laverne Cox was on the cover of 'Time' magazine, I totally lost it. It was a coup for the girls!”