Every accepted public quote

“Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.”

“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”

“On tour, there's dry shampoo - I use the one by Bed Head.”

“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.”

“For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.”

“My best friend and I went to sleep-away camp every summer. We'd share stories of making out with boys, but we never did, so we made it all up. My real first kiss was at a friend's house when...”

“As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.”

“I don't smoke, drink, do drugs or even have affairs. If I don't even swear, I should be put in a shrine and sanctified.”

“I wanted to go to the underdog team - I wanted to build something somewhere like a lot of the other guys who stayed home at Maryland, like Vernon Davis and players like that. I wanted to sta...”

“I don't believe in hasty marriages.”

“I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.”

“Now, being one who lived in the era of Obama, there are so many markers of improvement made. It's hard to be mindful of that, in the same way you're going, 'Oh everything's cool now!' and it...”

“We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful...”

“I came from a background where access to museum culture was rarely granted, and, when you got it, people wondered what the hell you were doing there.”

“Not that he had come anywhere near attaining her skill at managing hope. She could balance it like a juggler -- let it soar and curb it and pass it from hand to hand. She could spin hope and...”

“A lot of people have asked me about some of the characters that appear in 'Clockwork Prince,' like Aloysius Starkweather and Woolsey Scott. A lot of people like Woolsey Scott, which I was re...”

“Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so m...”

“Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.”

“I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denomination. I'm not Catholic or Presbyterian or Baptist or Methodist or Jewish or Muslim. I'm none of those t...”

“I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.”

“I've always been careful to make it clear that my endorsement of Trump is mine only.”

“Many friends of mine told me that normally only guys like a kung fu movie and the girls would be turned off - they want to see a love story. But Ip Man is a family man, so the women see this...”

“Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce.”

“The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have...”

“To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.”

“I just don't want to die without a few scars.”

“There is a common and persistent belief out there that entrepreneurship is about creativity - that it's about having a great idea. But it's not, really. Entrepreneurship isn't about creativi...”

“There are moments in time when the coincidence of art and reality interact to allow us a glimpse into the context of history. The release of the Christopher Nolan film 'Interstellar' a few d...”

“Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.”

“Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.”

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”

“I think Julian Casablancas and Amy Winehouse are two contemporaries I envy.”

“Rise to the occassion which is life!”

“I liked to dye my hair as a teenager. I dyed it a lot of different colours: blue, red, pink.”

“The reality is that some Kapoors did reach the marquee; others did not.”

“It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an...”

“I claim that all those who think they can cherry-pick science simply don't understand how science works. That's what I claim. And if they did, they'd be less prone to just assert that someho...”

“The aim of the Revolution is, so far as the interests of China herself are concerned, the restoration of her original frontiers and, in regard to the rest of the world, a gradual advance of...”

“Ekam Sat Vipra Bahudha Vadanti”

“President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.”

“I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish...”

“You can't edit a blank page”

“I don't take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots.”

“I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at once. The goal is to ride into the sunset, stereo blasting, and all of what's got you worrie...”

“When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also...”

“I remember the first club we played in San Francisco. There were a lot of people on motorcycles standing around outside, and I had trouble getting in. I didn't have any ID, and the guy at th...”

“Paris is such a beautiful city.”

“Women really are the stewards of the community and their families.”