Every accepted public quote

“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.”

“The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.”

“My dream is to have a creativity barn, in my back yard, which is full of musical instruments and every kind of paint and oils and paper, and you can just go in and make something.”

“Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.”

“Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.”

“The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how pe...”

“Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'”

“There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent.”

“as i don't understand the concept of immortality does that mean i am immortal? ~ questions of life”

“I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and t...”

“There's tons of members of the Carradine family. It's more like a clan than it is like a family, and it's rare that we can get a bunch of them together. We do once in a while.”

“If I have faith, what I see as a wall in front of me is in reality a door that will soon be behind me.”

“There must be repressed truth even in lies.”

“I'm not just selling out Yankee Stadium; I'm selling out stadiums in Mexico, in Argentina - with my bachata. I try to stay true to what I do.”

“Sometimes I don't even accept the simplest medical treatment, such as, for example, the anti-flu vaccine.”

“Working hard to earn more money and then giving it away in higher taxes isn't financially intelligent, even if you do put some of it into a retirement account.”

“You might say that you've finally earned the wisdom. Actually, it's the wisdom that has found and formed you.”

“I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat...”

“Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.”

“There are a lot of bands coming up now that are literally thrusting their soul, their passion into something that fans can pay for a ticket to go see, and they know it's going to be awe-insp...”

“I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.”

“I don't have any sense of inhibition, so I'm able to lead my life with a lot of honesty.”

“A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.”

“If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you'll be ineffective. If you're disciplined enough, you don't get down when you're behind, and you have a chance to create something positiv...”

“This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.”

“The great thing about being a standard-issue, straight white person is you have so much time. Gay people, people of color, we have less time! We have to be a living Learning Annex to everybo...”

“Contrary to the fears of some pundits, the ascent of women does not portend the end of men. It offers a new beginning for both. But women's progress by itself is not a panacea for America's...”

“On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?”

“I've worked with Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and lots of different local news anchors.”

“Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital.”

“Our reward for Starsky and Hutch was getting to write The Six Million Dollar Man for Todd.”

“Korean audiences are amazing. The fans scream so loud, and that really surprises skaters when they first perform in my shows.”

“Markets do not run better when manufacturing shifts to China largely because of the actions of its government. Nor do they become more efficient when Chinese companies are given special priv...”

“People are always advised to follow your dreams, but in 'That Will Never Work' I show them how!”

“I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.”

“I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids,...”

“The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.”

“Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.”

“Done right, precision can help clarify, plus it's fun.”

“Do what you have to do... before you do what you want to do.”

“Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am.”

“Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.”

“A thicker brow looks more feminine.”

“The way I mainly use the Internet is keeping in touch with poets that live far away. My main interest is contemporary American poets and some Spanish language poets, and I keep in touch with...”

“Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3)”

“There's so much information now, and that even goes down to the college game. You have so much video, you can watch every YouTube video of guys and mechanics, and so I just feel like the you...”

“Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.”

“In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life.”