Every accepted public quote

“I was always getting in trouble for whispering in class.”

“Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.”

“If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something on the basis of hearsay, or on happening to see it in a book, you'll be a...”

“It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun.”

“Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.”

“That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....”

“I woke up one morning with the knowledge that I had a brain tumor. It wasn't so much that I dreamt I had a brain tumor; it was like someone just poured the knowledge into my head. It wasn't...”

“A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.”

“Successive failure leads to long term success.”

“Do cardio throughout the year at least three days a week for at least 30-40 minutes, whether it be first thing in the morning on an empty stomach or after a post-workout protein shake. Cardi...”

“This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”

“When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, 'Hey, I'd like you to score this film 'The Social Network,' I said, 'I'm flattered, but I really don't have any real experience scor...”

“I'm not qualified for anything. I've had lots of little jobs, like picking grapes and being a tax man. I can't imagine not writing, because I've done it since I was five or six. Maybe I'd wo...”

“My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.”

“I try not to wear foundation unless I have a giant pimple, which sometimes I do. For the red carpet, I may add a brighter colored lip and darker eyes. But my standard is blush and mascara.”

“Our entire political system is financed by wealthy private interests buying politicians and making sure the rules are written in their favor.”

“People say, 'Since you got rich and famous, you've become insufferable.' I say, 'That's not true. I've always been insufferable.'”

“You could say I was born into entrepreneurship. My grandmother, who was from Sierra Leone, was left to raise four children in the 1940s in a rural village in West Africa after becoming a you...”

“There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.”

“I eat at In-N-Out Burger every chance I get.”

“I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat.”

“The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.”

“They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.”

“I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.”

“I wish more Americans would travel here. I always encourage my friends: 'Travel. See the Middle East. There's so much to see, so many good people.' And it's vice versa, and it helps stop pro...”

“I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myse...”

“I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.”

“I feel like I'm the last rap superhero. I really do. I feel like everybody else, they seem to be a bit victimized, and I don't feel like that's me.”

“New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the co...”

“Attention to detail is of utmost importance when you want to look good.”

“Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.”

“The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.”

“I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.”

“I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It's universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I've learned that when you predict tha...”

“There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.”

“I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.”

“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable...”

“I know what motivated you was not just a political campaign. It was your love of our country.”

“Feminism is experiential; it's comparing notes. And when those stories get told, and you realize it's not just you - it's bigger - there's just a huge sigh of relief. Otherwise, you think yo...”

“I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.”

“We are not the sum of our possessions.”

“I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.”

“Six years after I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B,' I received my first paycheck as a writer. It included both the $3,000 in deferred option money as well as half the fee for performing the...”

“I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and...”

“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”

“Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient f...”

“I'm nothing but a drunkard. Why do people expect me to be anything else?”

“My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant.”