Every accepted public quote

“I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.”

“If she could just get Papa to put Jack Door's book on lock-picking on the syllabus, she felt sure her new education would soon be complete.”

“God art thou and thy will be done.”

“The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to i...”

“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to...”

“You could summarize everything I did at Apple was making tools to empower creative people. 'QuickDraw' empowered all these other programmers to now be able to sling stuff on the screen. The...”

“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”

“Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we...”

“As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.”

“You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.”

“The opinions, eloquence and articulacy of the man or woman on the street can often be as invaluable as precious stones”

“Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.”

“When you're 17 in the suburbs and know only three gay people, holding hands with your girlfriend is a proclamation.”

“I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.”

“It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now.”

“The two moments that I felt the most nervous in my entire life were when I first had reading rehearsal for 'G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra' and when I was at the Academy Awards ceremony.”

“When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.”

“Growing up, I was certainly drawn to comedy, but my goal was just to be as well-rounded an actor as possible. I really liked Daniel Day-Lewis, and I thought, 'Oh, he's a good guy to try and...”

“Everybody is watching you every minute anyways. If they think the message you're sending out is phony, they're going to say, 'Who does he think he is?' It's again good business. But it is al...”

“The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system.”

“I am in misery, I am in pain, but I am not in conflict.”

“I've gone through several cycles. When I was little, I was the cute kid with missing teeth and funny one-liners. Then I moved on to be the young guy who wanted to be a grownup.”

“Effective action is always unjust.”

“For the timid, change is frightening; for the comfortable, change is threatening; but for the confident, change is opportunity.”

“I had a holding deal with ABC to find me a show, and I was very clear about the kind of show I wanted to do, because Indian people have always been seen as - well, we've been put in a box, a...”

“It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for many of the natural phenomena inspiring scripture and...”

“You may have done 20 great shows in a row and come to one, and it doesn't work. You never presume anything.”

“Harvey Weinstein does not personify American liberalism any more than Bill O'Reilly personifies American conservatism.”

“I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear...”

“What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes...”

“I'm a really artistic person, and so, with the live stuff, there's a lot that I think is really cool. Beyonce and Rihanna have all these dancers. So with the live costumes and video costumes...”

“Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.”

“The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities...”

“We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.”

“I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and...”

“I like certain pieces monogrammed because it gives my closet and home warmth - it's just something that you could really feel comfortable with. It's yours; it's something personal. I do it f...”

“The visionary impulse giving rise to apocalyptic eschatology tends to be strongest among those embracing the prophetic promise of Yahweh's restoration of the faithful but at the same time wi...”

“To be a good diarist, one must have a little snouty, sneaky mind.”

“When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.”

“When he came to television, there was no way I wasn't going to watch. Of course, he delivered everything that you would expect David Lynch to deliver, and more, and he was doing it in primet...”

“The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I'll get the house with the roller coaster and the rides and a disco, and I'll invite all my friends and just stay at home.”

“You want people with different life experiences as a backstop against bad decision.”

“It's hard for me to be happy because I'm always worried about something going awry or what could happen to screw it up. It's hard for me to sit and look around, going, 'Ah, I'm really happy....”

“See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us.”

“When I'm in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids a...”

“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.”

“I fear that the day I die, I am going to die without accomplishing what I have in my mind. Life is too short, and a lot of things can happen, and I am really keen to see it with my own eyes...”

“I'm here tonight, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an optimistic American who understands that we must come together behind the one man who can lead the way forward in these ch...”