Every accepted public quote

“You know, it's going to be a really long tour, and well, I guess I'll see what happens with A Perfect Circle, 'cause they do other projects too, and I don't know. I hope I can always do a lo...”

“They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely c...”

“I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.”

“The joy from eating does not come from the exclusivity of the food, but instead from the sensitivity that we eat it with.”

“The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.”

“I'd love to be a hit in Germany. I'm working on trying to get a gig as David Hasselhoff's opening act.”

“I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me.”

“I missed a tuna-fish sandwich with mayo on toasted wheat bread more than anything. Six months after I went vegan, I snuck into a deli and took one home. And, of course, it wasn't nearly as g...”

“I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?”

“Having anything to do with a hit film is great. Even if you're a third assistant to the director or second to the editor, if the film does well, every technician, every actor benefits from i...”

“South Korea and the U.S. share common interests with regard to the North Korean nuclear issue, so I promise that South Korea will fully consult with the U.S. on the deployment of THAAD.”

“No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area.”

“We have been protecting the lives of the Russian peacekeepers who had been attacked by their Georgian comrades, because there was a joint peacekeeping force.”

“In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating...”

“John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.”

“Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.”

“What I can say that's different in American television... in Britain, they wouldn't cancel something after a couple of episodes. In the States they would. They would just decide it's not wor...”

“There's things that I see that I did on videos when I was younger that I be like, 'Damn, I was bugging.' Champagne Dame, that dude, he was bugging. I don't even know that guy.”

“I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over wha...”

“I love to both give and receive very old books.”

“It sometimes takes a state of solitude to bring to mind the real power of companionship.”

“Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.”

“No one ever sees the sleepless nights, the years of studying and 14-hour days earning your dues. I spent three years isolated in an academic environment to be the best actor I could.”

“I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.”

“Now there was no wonder in the Statue of Liberty illusion because he, Copperfield, attempted to do something so large that it stretched the credibility of the audience to the point where mos...”

“I was always a data guy, not a theorist. Theorists can maintain total purity. The data are always messy.”

“Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.”

“The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.”

“First time I looked at a Formula One car in person, I just stared at the cockpit, figuring I'd never get in there. The drivers wear the whole car like a tight-fitting suit.”

“A month before the season I stop putting ketchup on my french fries.”

“We read of the courageous march south to battle the Confederate Army by the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Unlike their white counterparts, they understood from the beginni...”

“When you're willing to play poker for two days and lose millions of dollars, it's no longer recreation. It's taking over.”

“Miami is one of the great cultural melting pots in the world. I love working and living here.”

“Nothing is so bad that you have to sit down and go crazy.”

“People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of eve...”

“Man, wear your seat belts. That's all I can tell everybody. You never know.”

“In the second installment, I pretty much dominate the show. Somehow or another, though, I manage to apparently dominate the first show pretty well with just my voice and my hands and a shot...”

“No one has a First Amendment right to lie to a federal agency in order to claim an improper tax status in order to avoid legal disclosure requirements on political spending and thereby recei...”

“When I was born in 1959, the hospital in which I arrived had separate floors for black babies and white babies, and it was then illegal for blacks and whites to marry in many states.”

“We are in a situation with the huge stimulus package that's going to be spent all across this nation and a big financial crisis and banking crisis. And what we need is good, trained journali...”

“With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts with great forward momentum. Then there seems to be a period where it slows down a bit,...”

“I'm one of those that have said, one of my key principles is I will not support a health care reform bill that is not deficit-neutral, period.”

“Reforming ignorantly, will consequence crisis and destruction.”

“Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.”

“I'm very boring.”

“Playing for Barcelona's academy was a very important time for me and my career, as I learned a great deal here.”

“Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.”

“The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and...”