Every accepted public quote

“For comparison, tap out a single grain of salt from a shaker. You could line up about ten skin cells along one side of it. You could line up about a hundred bacteria. Compared to viruses, ho...”

“So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.”

“It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomor...”

“I've had those periods in my career when I was sitting around waiting for a phone call and had an agent who was doing the same thing rather than going out there to shake the bushes looking f...”

“When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ros...”

“Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.”

“Charity creates a multitude of sins.”

“I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.”

“In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.”

“I do not remember how it got into my head to make the first calculations related to rocket. It seems to me the first seeds were planted by famous fantaseour, J. Verne.”

“I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it,...”

“A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.”

“A year is a long time to live without the human contact of loved ones, fresh air, and gravity, to name a few.”

“Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.”

“In my view, a review should be like talking to a friend who's just asked you, 'What was it like?' You're giving a verdict on an experience, not trying for a definitive last judgment.”

“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.”

“We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that people are more bad than good. That you know if you do somethin...”

“Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty.”

“In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes.”

“If we are to give the people of China complete self-government we must first solve the problem of livelihood for all, and give real freedom to the races within China. If the foundations of d...”

“Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.”

“Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen Bank has given millions of women the means to...”

“Miami was always a town that was kind to me as a wrestler. It's a great wrestling town, and it's a great town, period. There's so much to do in Miami.”

“At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.”

“Riches certainly make themselves wings.”

“I'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like...”

“If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?”

“What's personally sustainable is globally sustainable.”

“Krista's got a great boyfriend; they've been going together for years. I want to be around to walk her down the aisle.”

“I love sports - I used to play volleyball really competitively...I went to Junior Olympic qualifiers, and I've ridden horses my whole life.”

“I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.”

“You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.”

“If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.”

“It's not just Barack Obama, but I doubt Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton would have made it to the White House without Selma.”

“To talk to people, I have to spend energy talking to them. If I expend my energy on talking to people and making friends, it takes away from the energy I could focus on getting ready to pitc...”

“My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It's very visible - more so all the time - but there's no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don't thin...”

“From a producing standpoint, I think prep is everything.”

“The sun doesn't shine at night, and wind power is highly variable. To meet our emissions goals, we're going to have to grasp every arrow in the quiver, and nuclear is one of those arrows.”

“I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.”

“We must seek together to address the good aspirations of people everywhere, for we are bound together through great commonality.”

“Obama seems to inspire a bizarre personal loyalty among his advocates, particularly among young people who should by all rights be concerned with their fading futures and collapsing prospect...”

“I grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut.”

“What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in t...”

“I knew I wanted to do music at eight years of age. I listened to a lot of Motown growing up, and it got to the point where I started mimicking people - Michael Jackson or whoever. People sta...”

“We have to keep calm and stick together; that's the key to success.”

“The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's s...”

“I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.”

“At the end of the day, I'm a very boring academic, bogged down with academia and structure and delivering an education.”