Every accepted public quote

“I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them...”

“In my opinion I do not think I am a better guitarist than Ace, I honestly think we're both different, and we both brought something unique to the musical.”

“What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The power of God not praised. The truth of God not sought. The wisdom o...”

“I'm a huge Springsteen fan, and yet if either he or Bob Dylan had to be erased from the world's hard drive, I would save Bob Dylan's work for sure - he's the greater talent, and by leaps and...”

“Give love a second chance in your life. That's what life and God is about. - Dele Andersen”

“When I take my free-kicks, I think in Portuguese, and at most, I'll do the celebrating in my native tongue.”

“Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.”

“I did get in a few fights in school. Kids threw around anti-Semitic slurs, not knowing necessarily what they meant. It was probably just something they picked up somewhere, as kids do.”

“Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and act...”

“The oldest story is one of making. God created. God made. God formed.”

“I work way too hard in the gym to woo the judges and just skate by.”

“I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.”

“When it comes to best new artist or album or song of the year, yeah, it's very rare that you see someone in country win one of those. It's a very strong genre, and it's got roots so deep in...”

“Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we n...”

“If all men are made in God's reflection, then why do some people continue to acknowledge only what is in their part of the mirror? If every man was created equal and in the image of God, the...”

“Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.”

“If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.”

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

“'Rolling Stone' had started something called 'Outside,' and since I was one of two people in the office that liked going outside, I was pegged to work on it. The concept of the magazine was...”

“Iran is a bad and dangerous actor in a volatile region of the world, which is why Congress enacted sanctions in response to the ballistic missile program and support for terrorist proxy grou...”

“The family is the nucleus of civilization.”

“If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.”

“Like Vietnam, Afghanistan was never about troop levels; it is about how troops are utilized.”

“You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.”

“Oh, shimmer down, Hunter. You're too testy. How many times have I've told you that you need to chill out, take a vacay. Disney World is really fun this time of the year. you should check it...”

“In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.”

“It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn't seem to...”

“Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.”

“I've been always clear that I wouldn't do TV soaps just for the sake of doing them. I would rather wait and work on projects which enable me to make an impact.”

“Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.”

“I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth.”

“The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mountains have disappeared, and dark forests of date palms intersected by canals fringe its m...”

“Kids are anarchy writ large.”

“The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension-d...”

“I grew up, like most people in my generation, watching John Travolta. I was thrilled to meet him.”

“When I was 15, I got super into Eric Clapton. My father took notice of this and got me a guitar for Christmas.”

“To deprecate human reason by saying that none of us is or can be omniscient is absurd, for it takes an impossible standard as the judge of a possible and real condition. All of our knowledge...”

“Being a female athlete, sometimes your clothes don't fit right if you have a small waist and broad shoulders, or strong hips. And it's OK to embrace that.”

“I'm listening to early Cash Money, I'm listening to Juvenile, I'm listening to Waka Flocka, I'm listening to Lil B, I'm listening to Brandy, Kanye - that's my home playlist.”

“People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, th...”

“My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is...”

“My father was only thirty-one when he died of a heart attack, much too young for a father to die and leave his young wife with five rambunctious little kids to take care of. I was the younge...”

“Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.”

“I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.”

“If you have time to whine then you have time to find solution.”

“Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I w...”

“The people that I grew up with had no problem with my faith. They did, however, seem very concerned that I would starve to death during Ramadan. I would explain to them that I have enough fa...”

“I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.”