Every accepted public quote

“Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.”

“Learn to adapt. Things change, circumstances change. Adjust yourself and your efforts to what it is presented to you so you can respond accordingly. Never see change as a threat, because it...”

“I had a personal email when I was in the Senate, as the vast majority of senators do. It was very convenient. I did all of my business on personal emails.”

“An army marches on its stomach.”

“Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.”

“The confidence you instill in children can change the world.”

“Because I am much like Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, I'm such an unconventional political figure that you really need to design a unique campaign that fits the way I operate.”

“Even in comedy, you have to be real. It's all about being real. It's how real can you be? That's the challenge. How much are you willing to take on for your character?”

“Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.”

“The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material tha...”

“My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I ju...”

“If you're doing something like 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, which has been done millions and millions of times, and it's been played some unbelievably well-respected actors, there's a lot more...”

“I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.”

“There is always light in the midst of darkness, even if it is only a pinpoint int he distance.”

“I didn't know this before, but as it turns out, Tyrannosaurs can really haul ass.”

“I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.”

“Commencement Day has a sobering finality in that it's the end of the prescribed path.”

“It's not reasonable to love people who are only going to die.”

“The same pot that gave birth to the angels created the demons too. And eventually, there came a time where the differences between both races perished. What came out of the pot next shook th...”

“Van Gogh was impulsive.”

“Deviation from perfection is the beauty of human experience.”

“In one day, I got mistaken for three different actresses: Wendy Williams, Sherri Shepherd, and Star Jones.”

“Reaping political dividends out of tragedies is deeply engrained in the Congress' DNA.”

“Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.”

“I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.”

“To me, drone use is a moral issue.”

“When our family business separation was implemented, as the eldest member of the family, I had taken the entire burden of the debts. I believe, it was my mistake to have told myself that, 'S...”

“I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other peop...”

“I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.”

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

“Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it together and produce it together. I've got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to j...”

“All kinds of ways of expression are spreading out all over the place, information is overflowing, and it's harder and harder to be excited about anything.”

“I'm a married woman, so I'm not bothered what other men think of me - but I still want James to fancy me.”

“I don't care how much hardware you throw at an audience. If they are not emotionally invested in the thing, it's zero. I can name a slew of films, but I have no ax to grind. I understand the...”

“I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among the volcano-tops, and mademoiselle shall live with me there, and only me.”

“There couldn't possibly be a more label-driven industry than acting, seeing as every audition comes with a character breakdown: 'Beautiful, sassy, Latina, 20s'; 'African American, urban, pre...”

“Begin doing what you want to do now.”

“Slowly but surely, the darkness revealed light; and as the dim light shine brighter, I was mentally, physically, and emotionally prepared to battle the raging storms and the unfair, distaste...”

“In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.”

“My nutritionist always said to eat whatever you want.”

“'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months,...”

“I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.”

“Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.”

“My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.”

“I wouldn't have supported invoking Taft-Hartley to help George Bush end a strike.”

“Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency...”

“I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the social fabric - and it was not very nice.”

“In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away.”