Every accepted public quote

“You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple m...”

“I went from a guy, kind of a working actor, a supporting player, to magazine covers and being offered the studio pictures really quickly. Nobody was comfortable with it. I wasn't really comf...”

“Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.”

“We should credit [the sky] for what it is: for sheer size and perfection of function, it is far and away the grandest product of collaboration in all of nature.”

“A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it's employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.”

“I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.”

“Human tool-makers always make tools that will help us get what we want, and what we want hasn't changed for thousands of years because as far as we can tell the human template hasn't changed...”

“Sound is energy, and that energy resonates with your energy. And it gives you a certain feeling.”

“There is a solo on 'Spiders,' albeit a kind of a non-traditional solo, but that's what I love.”

“In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.”

“Injuries give you perspective. They teach you to cherish the moments that I might have taken for granted before.”

“Order is heaven's first law.”

“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”

“I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It's the music business. You are a business. That's what they do...”

“From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.”

“In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music, and to paint when I feel like it.”

“I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline.”

“I've been there a thousand years, and I never felt comfortable. Beverly Hills - when I first saw it, I thought they put it up this morning. You got to pack water to get to the drugstore.”

“My favorite songwriting trick is writing something like 'XO.' In my brain, I thought, 'This is probably going to be a love song. How can I change that and find ways to twist that.' As a song...”

“People don't live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los Angeles because of the intoxicating energy of new beginnings that permeate our city.”

“I've seen 'Hamlet' many times, and Hamlet, he was just a hideous neurotic; he never changes. He doubts - all the way to the end, all the way until when he dies, he doubts.”

“Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.”

“I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan; I would faint if I met him, let alone got to work with him.”

“I'm not going to suggest to a delegate at what they ought to do.”

“I've said to people before that I'm going to do my very best to make it, and I'm not going to give up. And that's true. But I might not make it. And if I don't make it, the Marathon of Hope...”

“I'm more a competitive person.”

“I remember, as a kid, I couldn't wait to get my library card, get my first book. There was a sphinx on the cover, and I figured I was going to read about the Egyptians. But it was this arche...”

“I remember very vividly - I wrote about it in one of my books - my first IRA. I contributed $2,000 every year, and in 21 years, the funds in that IRA account grew to $260,000. Seems like sor...”

“My wife asked me to marry her. But we did not jump the broom.”

“I don't have much of a wish list, but I'm dying to work with Erykah Badu. That's pretty much my dream collaboration.”

“If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people.”

“In the developed world, we are surrounded by electronics - from the computers on our desks to the smart phones in our pockets to the thermostats in our homes to our data in the virtual cloud...”

“Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white,...”

“When my company was first getting off the ground, we were completely lost in the shuffle, despite our best efforts. In 2012, however, we had a 28-foot-long, 15,000-pound secret weapon. To st...”

“My real name is Garrett Nash, so G is just the g and nash.”

“I'm excited about being an owner, it's got my competitive juices going. I'm scared, but excited as well.”

“My interest in theater really began in the '70s when American realism wasn't really in favor. I really dreaded going into a play that had a toaster that worked. I just didn't want to see tha...”

“I believe accurately remembering - and honoring - our whole past is the first step in governing in a way that effectively represents the whole America.”

“The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or bette...”

“I passed my Lawn Tennis Association coaching exam, and I persuaded my local club to let me use a court after school and on Saturdays.”

“When I'm working on something, if I went to an exhibition of an artist I respect, then I usually come home quite depressed and look at what I'm doing and throw it all away and start again.”

“The basic fact of today is the tremendous.”

“Definitely, as a competitor, you want to get out there and play.”

“Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.”

“Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.”

“The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.”

“I have had my eyes opened to a different side to me. I'm a much happier person. There was always this Jekyll and Hyde thing with me.”

“The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're more likely to do it; we're more likely to stick with it.”