Every accepted public quote

“The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it.”

“There is almost a 60-year age difference between Miley Cyrus and Jane Fonda, and one day I trained them both. I would say I trained Jane in her 70s even harder than I did Miley, who's a teen...”

“When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual property, they're climbing into the meat grinder. And what you're coming...”

“My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.”

“Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.”

“The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of Go...”

“I've always felt like I was going to win a British Open at St. Andrews. That place is suited for me.”

“Flower doesn't bloom overnight. Trust your path and enjoy the process.”

“Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability...”

“It's like you get a high off the jumps, and you crave it, and you want to do it again and again and again.”

“I think I'm a very poor piano player.”

“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”

“In the years of the Red Terror that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the voice of dissent was stifled by universal denunciations, house searches, and preventive arrests.”

“People get a kick out of my stupidity.”

“For risk management reasons, we need to make sure we hit our inflation objective at the same time we're at full employment.”

“I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.”

“I don't mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you're resting...”

“If you look at Governor Romney's family, he's been very successful. He's built a great family, very committed to his wife.”

“On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.”

“Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.”

“It was a lot of fun on the set. I had the most fun making that movie out of all of them. I'm sure if I sat and thought about it, but none that I could think of offhand.”

“If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.”

“When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.”

“In 2010, when the Lotus Sutra was made available to me by a private dealer, I was very fortunate to be able to have it. It is very long, 30 feet or something crazy like that. It has some 15,...”

“To forgive ourselves for what we didn't do Replay a scene over and over in mind Change it change Apologizing to our own story handful of soil I could have planted something better here To wa...”

“I think being in the public eye has made me more determined than other people to show that I do belong at the top, and I believe I am one of the hardest-working people at the rink. I feel li...”

“The terrorists know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts. They understand that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their intere...”

“The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.”

“When we were growing up, I got kicked out of Timbaland's house every day. He was the DJ for my brother's rap group in junior high school. So I was 7, and while Tim's DJ'ing and my brother's...”

“You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.”

“I'm very tall, so I like a guy who's bigger than me - it makes me feel feminine and safe. I don't like to be hovering over a guy or feel like a linebacker.”

“Sometimes I have to shut off the omnipresent disco ball and flashing lights that are always in my head. It's a part of maturing, I guess - just learning that it's not just always about a qui...”

“I just have this real love and connection with what I'm doing when I play music.”

“I think: 'Wouldn't it be great to work with Bill Murray?' And then I'm like, 'You know what, just appreciate Bill Murray from afar, don't find out that maybe he's not the dude you want to wo...”

“Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability by perpetuating a weirdly seductive anxiety throug...”

“'Presumed Innocent' was written over a six to seven year period with intervals in between where I was figuring out the end of the book and writing other stuff... My life as a writer was carr...”

“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to...”

“I suppose Virgin is an unusual brand in that I suspect we're the only 'way of life' brand in the world. We're one of maybe the top 30 best known brands in the world, yet if you look at the o...”

“Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as...”

“Consciousness, there are about 20,000 papers on consciousness with no consensus. Nowhere in history have so many people devoted so much time to produce so little.”

“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”

“In the words of Jean de La Fountaine, 'A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”

“The memoirs of the Grand Duchess Olga are an entertaining record for anyone interested in the imperial family's home life during the last years of Russian autocracy.”

“If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth cen...”

“I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or d...”

“WEF should restrict the number of passes for limos in the parking lots. They need to Keep it Simple.”

“I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.”

“The beth din is the court of the chief rabbi. I see myself taking an active role within the beth din.”