Every accepted public quote

“In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the...”

“I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.”

“Indeed, the hype around 'Watchmen' is its curse. If you want to enjoy the comic for what it is, ignore the attributions of literariness and the novelistic pretensions with which some critics...”

“May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under w...”

“Countries such as Iraq, Iran, Libya and Syria, which support terrorist organizations and use terror to achieve their objectives, are precisely the same countries working tirelessly to acquir...”

“People don't get to choose their family, but if you have the family you would choose - that's happiness.”

“I love being part of an ensemble.”

“I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me...”

“Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more likely to answer those qu...”

“Sleep is my great indulgence, and I get eight hours every night. Being chronically overtired raises stress levels in a bad way and is responsible for a lot of depressive breaks.”

“A series is filled with compromises.”

“Why not question what can or can't be a layer in layer cake?”

“For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.”

“Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that's it. There's more to love than that. Romance is quite a soppy word. Love is much more important.”

“Be the person you are, succeed the best way you can and take pride in what you achieve.”

“The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.”

“How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.”

“Beauty makes me hopeless. I don't care why anymore I just want to get away. When I look at the city of Paris I long to wrap my legs around it. When I watch you dancing there is a heartless i...”

“Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.”

“Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.”

“I'd rather be entertained and go to a show and watch a drummer and have somebody that makes me actually smile. So I don't judge drummers based on their technical ability; I judge them based...”

“Work is the first step out of a life of mediocrity and irrelevance”

“The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a...”

“What made the days leading up to the iPhone launch even crazier was that Apple had pulled off the greatest disappearing act in tech promotion history. In January 2007, Jobs announced the lon...”

“With back-to-backs, a lot of games, sometimes you think, 'I've got to take a day off today.' But you have to push through it. The greats did.”

“I think we're heading towards a world of what I call 'technological socialism.' Where technology - not the government or the state - will begin to take care of us. Technology will provide ou...”

“Life has many doors, to open the right door can be Your happiness”

“I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.”

“Your mama coming back. Just cause you cant sees a person aint mean nothing. They still there. You worry you never gonna find your mama but she gonna come to you. Close your eyes. I bets you...”

“Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.”

“I was involved in the anti-war movement.”

“A person who has clean ears can act and communicate with people more maturely than others who use their big mouth all the time because he or she can thouroughly understand other people's per...”

“I'm not materialistic. I love clothes and all that stuff, but I don't need it to live.”

“A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.”

“On the technical side, I hope that my writing is evolving and maturing, ripening, deepening.”

“I didn't expect this - to be 19, be a rookie, playing this much and having a kid. It's a lot, but, I mean, I'm enjoying it.”

“We have the wrong impression of life. We think the very big incidents of our lives are consequences of huge dilemmas or major decisions. If we paid attention, we'd realize that the determini...”

“our biggest trials can also lead to our biggest triumphs”

“The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks.”

“Its always after the fact with anything when people want to invest and is those who can see who always beats them to it”

“The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic towards them. They feel slightly repulsed by it.”

“when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because”

“I definitely hope that I'm inspiring a lot of different female artists to run with the boys.”

“I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.”

“Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.”

“I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.”

“I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.”

“We as an industry need to do a better job of increasing the awareness of the show, decreasing the ticket price, and making it a better experience online to buy tickets.”