Every accepted public quote

“Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.”

“My dreams are huge, man. I dream all day every day. Do I want to get into restaurants one day? Yeah! Do I want to get into hospitality and have my own hotels? Yeah, I do!”

“Having a sold-out show takes a lot of the pressure off because I know that it's going to be a room full of people who are excited to be there. The worst part - or the part that I'm adjusting...”

“If there's a secret to New Line, it's the people here.”

“In China, they treated me really well, they like me a lot. The first few times they laughed when I took my shirt off, but when they saw me throw my punches and saw my opponent on the floor,...”

“There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.”

“In grad school, I led a bit of a double life. I don't mean gender-wise - I just mean intellectually.”

“You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.”

“I would love to be a role model.”

“I like to travel in jeans because I don't want to wallow around in my suit, you know? They cost too much. Jeans are comfortable.”

“There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.”

“The employers who do best are employers who reject these false choices. It's not a zero-sum world where you either take care of your workers or you take care of your shareholders. You can do...”

“The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.”

“I never thought for one second I'd be able to play with a real band. When I was in high school, I went through a lot of bad treatment and was called a lot of names by boys because I wanted t...”

“Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.”

“This moment where we think we rest, when the brain is floating, you know, in sleep, is actually a moment where I could be very creative in a very strange, uncontrolled way.”

“I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you're mo...”

“Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.”

“Growth without diversification, technological improvement, and increased productivity is easily reversed: all it takes is a dip in commodity prices.”

“He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.”

“Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that. Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incenti...”

“Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.”

“The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.”

“It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benn...”

“In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.”

“Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.”

“One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such...”

“Cyberspace as a mode of being will never go away. We live in cyberspace.”

“Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?”

“In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have inc...”

“I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand the...”

“I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was pla...”

“In a clean, uncluttered room, you can think, you can be your true self. It's the same with worries & anxieties, keep them under wraps, and you're free to excel in activity that matters.”

“My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.”

“I am not a day dreamer, I am a believer, that after every painful love I have gone through, it is just an experience to crack open the deepest parts of my core and allow to me to delve into...”

“I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.”

“Only in our failures are we absolutely alone. Only in the pursuit of failure can a person really be free. Losers may be the avant garde of the modern age.”

“I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate me.”

“My life is not as dramatic as it is depicted in the shows. I am not at all submissive. I am free-spirited.”

“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery”

“When I was 11 years old, my family had to leave East Germany and begin a new life in West Germany overnight. Until my father could get back into his original profession as a government emplo...”

“The Thought of Death. It gives me a melancholy happiness to live in the midst of this confusion of streets, of necessities, of voices: how much enjoyment, impatience and desire, how much thi...”

“I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.”

“They knew, though, she would not suffer as they had suffered. She was perfect. They were scarred.”

“Well, I'm still experimenting, trying to figure out my style. I'm trying lots of things from many designers including Christian Siriano.”

“I go to Amazon to browse for things I can then go find at the mall. It's like window shopping online. I want to touch the things that I buy. I am the kid who still likes actual books, bookst...”

“Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.”

“No matter how much we tweet, blog and post, nothing in business is as powerful as actual face time with prospective business partners and customers.”