Every accepted public quote

“One of the most fun characters I played on a television series, which didn't last long... was a show called 'American Gothic' that Shaun Cassidy created. I would have loved to have done that...”

“There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost like that. They had a big guard rail around the stage, which...”

“I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played in some other indie bands who were trying to make it big; those sucked. Then I started M...”

“Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fac...”

“People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the r...”

“I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather th...”

“History is a race between education and catastrophe.”

“Nature is harmonious when perceived as a whole which it is.”

“Priesthood quorums teach and assist their members to attain good health, financial stability, and a year's supply of food and clothing. They also teach their members to be self-reliant and t...”

“Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.”

“[Star Trek] It has given us a legacy-a message-man can create a future worth living for.... a future that is full of optimism, hope, excitement, and challenge. A future that proudly proclaim...”

“I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.”

“Arrogance is blindness.”

“A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.”

“Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.”

“When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder.”

“My best memories growing up are of putting on musicals with my mom and dad, Both of them are real hams; it was like vaudeville in East Hampton.”

“There's something really magical about having a child - it's like permission to begin again, start over, reevaluate some things, check yourself. Recognize yourself.”

“Behind every racist joke is a scientific fact.”

“Hours after I gave birth to my first child, my husband cradled all five pounds of our boy and said, gently, 'Hi, Sweetpea.' Not 'Buddy' or 'Little Man.' Sweetpea. The word filled me with una...”

“I always say the greats just get better.”

“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”

“I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.”

“My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.”

“I recall very early Mel Gibson films where he's kind of cheeky. I wanted to embody those qualities, definitely.”

“If you think about art, if you look at Rembrandt and Vermeer and Caravaggio, if you look at Turner and Constable and all the Impressionists and the Hudson River School, there's a tradition o...”

“I am the captain of my soul.”

“For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth”

“Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors... But I think they're quite positive when they're dynamic and do someth...”

“Presidents Truman and Nixon left office under dark clouds of scandal and with abysmal levels of support, but with the passage of time, both have been reassessed far more positively.”

“The high-tech, globalized capitalism of the 21st century is very different from the postwar version of capitalism that performed so magnificently for the middle classes of the Western world.”

“I just don't talk about who I'm going out with, that's it. It's an odd thing to sit around describing yourself to 10 different people every 5 minutes yet it's kind of therapeutic in a way.”

“We have to prove that digital manufacturing is inclusive. Then, the true narrative will emerge: Welcome, robots. You'll help us. But humans are still our future.”

“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with...”

“I never want anyone to think I've been given a helping hand. I've always worked for everything, whether it be on the football field or away from it.”

“Our work to provide equal opportunities for all Americans should be a year-round mission.”

“My customers come and go, cycle in and out. They eat others' foods, too. It's cool. They move on, and they come back. My quality, in food and execution, speaks for itself.”

“Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin'.”

“If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other part...”

“We love God best by loving each other.”

“I tried theatre. I played Miss Hannigan for a short run of Annie at a regional theatre. That was fun. I enjoyed it! I enjoy theatre and have so much respect for theatre actors.”

“Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden,...”

“My wife totally backs the way I am on stage; that's one of the amazing things about her. I have 120 per cent respect for her when I'm on stage, so there are definitely certain things I would...”

“The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained when they are watched in a current, where they can be caught against a projecting edge and b...”

“The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every one of these viruses that passes from animals to hu...”

“Politicians are constantly stuck between what is politically expedient and politically beneficial and what is the responsible or right thing to do. It's a tension we all go through.”

“To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.”

“Women need to lead the way to change our culture of burnout - both for their sake and also for the sake of successful men who desperately need a new model of success. And the still-very-mach...”