Every accepted public quote

“Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Evil does not question itself, only hop...”

“I enjoy Saturday night racing.”

“People criticising me for my emotional outburst are not humans.”

“When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don't really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it's not fair that others aren't d...”

“Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks.”

“Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.”

“To shoot a conventional film means that you are always covering yourself. You are putting nets and, in a way, letting bad decisions take over.”

“I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.”

“I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and socc...”

“That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for my education.”

“Only the very best clubs are able to pass the baton of continuity down through the generations.”

“It's nice to be asked to do good projects.”

“Strong convictions precede great actions.”

“I run five miles three times a week; I log everything. I look up routes when I travel.”

“An average person like me does not know about stuff like chasing absentee ballots.”

“the blessings of life are like fruits hanging on a tree”

“In addition to being what we are as BTS, we wanted to bring some changes, and we actually wanted to evolve as a group. We wanted to show our many colors, but we still want to console others...”

“It is vital that a company's culture shows a willingness to invest in employee wellbeing with no stigma or penalty attached to prioritising good health.”

“Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that.”

“I'm the first has-been star singer ever to sing with the circus. I mean, Presley sang with the circus, but that was before he became a star.”

“I look at the group I've got and then I decide what strengths and weaknesses they have and then I formulate an appropriate way the players can work in order to be collectively successful.”

“I think, more than anything, in times of crisis we should be shedding party labels.”

“'Castaway' is my favorite movie, and any time I read about a castaway or a story like that, it just interests me a lot.”

“One of the reasons I'm excited by what visionary Elon Musk has done with the Tesla is to show that you can reduce global warming and drive a powerful, fun car. A cool car helps make a cooler...”

“Small? Nah, I never want to be small. Big people usually push small people around. Why would I want to be small?”

“We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all...”

“We may be helpless to stop bad things from happening, but perhaps God leaves us signs and road maps to help us recover and reconnect, provided we know where to look.”

“There's a lot of talk coming from Citigroup about how Dodd-Frank isn't perfect. Let me say this to anyone who is listening at Citi: I agree with you. Dodd-Frank isn't perfect. It should have...”

“I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.”

“A couple years ago I was going to back off and actually thought about retiring, but it keeps calling me back, and I'm going to keep going back as long as it calls me. I really think it has s...”

“I think it's great that so many people are enjoying climbing. I've always loved climbing; I don't see why other people wouldn't enjoy it just as much. As long as everyone does their best to...”

“Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate docto...”

“I have no interest in bailing out anybody, quite frankly, and I think banks have to suffer every dollar of loss if they make a bad loan.”

“Mr. Freeze is motivated by different things. He doesn't really have that much of an axe to grind with Batman. Batman is an irritation and an impediment to him, not an enemy that he hates. He...”

“Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoun...”

“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”

“I like technology, but 'Black Mirror' is more what the consequences are, and it doesn't tend to be about technology itself: it tends to be how we use or misuse it. We've not really thought t...”

“Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.”

“All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.”

“Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.”

“My latest decorating obsession is dipping - like painting the bottom of things. I've done it to almost every terra-cotta pot in my house. Every African vase I have is painted gold on the bot...”

“Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.”

“I shop at the market, and that informs what I make.”

“I'm not a big slasher film fan.”

“Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.”

“I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.”

“When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.”

“I come from a middle-class family in Gwalior.”