Every accepted public quote

“Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn'...”

“If it hadn't been for Johnny Cash, I'd probably have been a Nashville songwriter because that's what I had done for almost five years.”

“You want to be free. You also want to be mine. You can't be both.”

“Your core, lying deep within you, is what makes you what you are. Some call it the soul, the Higher Self, the true self, the being and so on. The name is unimportant once you realize that yo...”

“I've played more golf with Joe Montana and Steve Bono than I've played with anyone else. We've played a ton of golf. I always tell people; my relationship with Joe was as good as it could be...”

“A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.”

“Even if you look at the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane situation that people can relate to, and...”

“Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them.”

“Honestly, I have a tendency to date dorks. Which means that a lot of times, I date guys that no one else would deem to be a hunk.”

“Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their m...”

“Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.”

“Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?”

“I hope I never hold anyone down; I hope I never cut someone's wings. I hope I never take anyone's freedom; I hope I never cover someone's eyes and ears. I hope that I never keep anyone from...”

“I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I've found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed ce...”

“I always took a lot of pride in being a safe wrestle. I never injured anyone.”

“Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultiv...”

“I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.”

“When a product is made, everyone hopes for the best. Whether it could have been better or not is more of an afterthought.”

“Failure is a greater teacher than success”

“In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land.”

“We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.”

“It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.”

“Each man follows his own path - his own destiny, if you will. And only he is responsible for the choice.”

“I love movie sets. It's another home for me. Movie theaters and movie sets - they're just the best places to be. I love them.”

“We are always getting ready to live but never living.”

“Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.”

“The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.”

“Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.”

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.”

“I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and love.”

“I'm always for the Indian in the cowboy movie. Always.”

“I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there...”

“Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape.”

“You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it... you're able to say private things when you're writing.”

“The Great Migration can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history and the history of millions of African Americans who left those oppres...”

“If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you a...”

“I've done a handful of voiceover and on-camera jobs where I've been asked to 'be blacker.' That's code for sassier, more ghetto, more neck rolls and snaps.”

“We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.”

“There's no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts.”

“If you become more of a witness to the way you're engaging in life, you can catch yourself really screwing up some days!”

“I am really happy to have been selected by Madame Tussauds.”

“I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.”

“The chips fall into place, but the educational experience I had at Cal, second to none.”

“There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or incon...”

“A great leader not only leads, he turns followers into leaders!”

“God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian...”

“I am a private citizen with no political affiliation - the recommendations Remain United will make are based on robust polling and scientific methodology never before used in an E.U. electio...”

“Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.”