Every accepted public quote

“I had my fortune told once at the Great Wall of China. A withered old lady told my fortune - but it was probably one of these things that are set up to rip off tourists. She told me a couple...”

“'Alaska' was filmed at my family's farm in Maryland; 'Dog Years' was filmed at the summer camp I grew up going to in Maine.”

“When my voice breaks, it recovers automatically. I don't do anything special to maintain my voice. I have a natural voice and don't have to take care of it.”

“Notorious B.I.G. was one of my favorites. I started getting into hip-hop around the Bad Boy era.”

“Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the...”

“I grew up listening to Mary J. Blige's music. When I initially met her, it was like, 'Oh, wow. I'm meeting this woman whose music was the soundtrack of my college years.'”

“There is adventure in finding compelling stories and exploring complex issues in challenging environments, but there is also a responsibility to tell those stories accurately and objectively...”

“The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.”

“Produce what you consume; draw from the native element the necessaries of life. Permit no vitiated taste to lead you into the indulgence of expensive luxuries, which can only be obtained by...”

“Do mainstream crowds want to watch a movie about good things happening in black neighborhoods? Do black audiences want to see a little girl doing something in a white world?”

“I stopped hating people. I also tried to see the positives in negative situations that I found myself in.”

“I rise fully awake, aware, and appreciative of how to bless I am to have you in my life. Your very existence is enough for me. I love you!”

“Current theories on the creation of the Universe state that, if it were created at all and didn't just start, as it were, unofficially, it came to being between ten and twenty thousand milli...”

“Liberace - or Lee, as us friends called him - was great. He was gay, you know.”

“One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.”

“I like going to a new environment with open eyes.”

“I'm an extremist. If I go to a sneaker store, I buy 20 pairs of sneakers, not one.”

“Purple - I mean, the music and the influence and the subliminal touches range from orchestral conversation to jazz to blues and soul and God knows what. It's a vast range of expressions.”

“How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you reco...”

“The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western...”

“I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.”

“I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade th...”

“Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.”

“I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.”

“Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.”

“I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.”

“I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.”

“I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.”

“When fathers come home after a tough day at work, they should come home to serve, like my father did, teaching lessons around the dinner table and leading the family in worship and prayer.”

“It was a wonderful experience working with Nagarjuna sir. I mean, I never expected this to happen. For me, who watched his films standing in a queue at theatres, and now sharing the screen w...”

“My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.”

“I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.”

“A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action!”

“I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trad...”

“I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it hurts now.' That's exactly it. I can still dance, too, but it hurts now!”

“All relationships are a learning experience, even ones you continue to be in. If you don't see them as that, then that's a problem.”

“Workers and students and part-time working parents across New Mexico are taking home too little, trying to stretch dollars as far as they'll go to pay for basic necessities.”

“Planting of godliness must be a continuous thing, however, one needs to start the planting of godliness from the home front.”

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

“Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.”

“When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.”

“Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.”

“As a kid, I was big into Al Green, Gladys Knight and the Pips, but as I got older, I started listening to all sorts of music, including country.”

“We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enliste...”

“I love Popsicles. I make them out of real fruit, then dip them in chocolate and roll them in cereal.”

“The true value of man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. It is not possession of Truth by which he exten...”

“There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.”

“Yet for quixotic reasons--namely, that I enjoyed writing obits--I had decided to scale back on articles about city life in order to write exclusively about the city's dead. For even less mon...”