Every accepted public quote

“No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, bett...”

“Some therapists have proclaimed: 'Co-dependency is anything, and everyone is co-dependent.'”

“If the beat feels like it don't make you move right, I scrap that and go to another track. Sometimes it takes 10 minutes, sometimes it takes an hour to get one done.”

“Your thoughts are your message to the world. Just as the rays are the messages of the Sun.”

“If I am elected president we will secure the border and we will end the illegal immigration.”

“I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.”

“I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.”

“I always have been trying to work on the other side of Jackie, and that is, making sure that my appearance, that my image, is right; also, working in the job world, knowing how it is to wake...”

“I'm just a low-key guy.”

“No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.”

“Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.”

“One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one i...”

“I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.”

“The stage is like a magnifier of thoughts and emotion and vibration; that's what the stage is incredible for because it makes you live other lives. It makes you experience other emotions. It...”

“What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?”

“Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.”

“I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.”

“I'm for economic independence.”

“As human beings we're visual creatures, and it's so easy to play the guitar by looking at it. It's a real challenge to go from that visual way of perceiving the guitar to getting back to tha...”

“It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he at...”

“I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride, who are my idols. Everything so...”

“If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments, you end up with an imbalance in your life.”

“Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.”

“I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues.”

“I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it.”

“When you have a dream that you can't let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember: Real dreams take work, They take patience, and sometimes they require you to dig down very d...”

“Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.”

“What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.”

“I was looking at a photograph of the 1997 election campaign yesterday, and I thought: 'My God. Did I really have that hairstyle? And that Tory blue suit?'”

“A scene, a day of shooting, can often make you feel kind of stupid and inept because your one job is to anticipate and react and know what to go for.”

“There's a hidden Goth in me: I have a dark sense of humour; I have a dark sense of fashion.”

“Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.”

“It's your spirit I love.”

“I started with a website, Jasonmraz.com, pre-YouTube. You could e-mail me directly, and I would send you a CD.”

“Players like me, we did something of a thankless job. You don't show a hard tackle or stripping someone of possession in slow motion on the big screen. But if you add it all up, I was always...”

“You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of...”

“Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from spe...”

“I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And...”

“We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.”

“If you think about the amount of critical thinking that has come into the field of economics, two universities have dominated the landscape in my life: Chicago and Harvard.”

“One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerc...”

“No two persons ever read the same book.”

“We want to exert pressure on wealthy people.”

“Film rights were in the offing for 'The Onion Field,' eventually made into a movie in 1979; 'The New Centurions' became a 1972 film starring George C. Scott, while 'The Blue Knight' starred...”

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”

“Her face was an open book and yet he was still confounded by her.”

“An excuse is a lie guarded.”

“We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.”