Every accepted public quote

“There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the imp...”

“I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you...”

“At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank; ten years later, Ehud Olmert offered Abbas 93.6 percent with...”

“Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the '60s - well, I was frankly surprised by the show's success and the attendant publicity for David and myself.”

“You don't get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don't go hand in hand.”

“Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there's a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her....”

“I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don't really care that much about women's clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they'll like her clothes.”

“I used to regard genres as being embedded in cliches, and I always felt funny about the need we have to label things. But I'm happy to think of 'Starred Up' as a prison drama, although we tr...”

“Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.”

“For me, filmmaking is not exactly a career. I was never in it for Hollywood or anything. My films are markers of where I am in life, where I am in my head. So that's what I'm working on, and...”

“I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.”

“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.”

“Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.”

“I had my first 'Survivor Series' in 1991 and I was fortunate enough to be an instrumental part of the shows I was on.”

“I believe that cinema is not only an artistic industry, but there is also a political activity.”

“I am the product of the American education system. It is a system that has always been on the lookout for bright boys and girls. It spotted me when I was 14, and I owe a tremendous debt to m...”

“By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors exc...”

“Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.”

“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”

“I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideologi...”

“Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.”

“I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find...”

“The painter I really thought I could learn from was Cezanne - some sort of resemblance to oranges and greens and browns of the dry season in St. Lucia.”

“Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe.”

“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they...”

“Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.”

“The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were plante...”

“I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.”

“Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.”

“One thing my mother did is that she never looked in the mirror and said, 'I'm so fat,'or 'I'm so ugly. I need to go on a diet.' Projecting that onto yourself is only going to make your daugh...”

“In Afghanistan, getting shot at was a regular occurrence. I viewed survival as a numbers game. As point man, every time I entered a Taliban compound first, I played the odds in my head.”

“Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.”

“I love Chicago. It's one of the great cities. I'm crazy about the town. It reminds me of New York when it was at its best, the New York that used to be and is no more. I love the architectur...”

“It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.”

“There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in way...”

“Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.”

“Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, b...”

“In 1996, when I was being treated for leukaemia, at one point I had a vicious infection that was trying to claim me. Mercifully, due to love and expertise, I pulled through.”

“Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.”

“Just because you go to free agency doesn't mean you don't want to be somewhere. It's just a part of the business.”

“Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.”

“Baidu Research has three labs - two in Beijing that are already largely built up, and the Silicon Valley one is being built from scratch. We're hiring pretty rapidly, about one person a week...”

“We are all human. We have all made mistakes. Take the lesson from how you got there. Take pride in how you got out. Allow your past weaknesses to become your strengths.”

“My mobile rang around lunchtime one day, and it was George Michael. He wanted to come in on Friday. We were like, 'okay, if that's what you want'. And he was a very good guest. That's a real...”

“It's really hard when you break up with somebody, or somebody breaks up with you, and you're in this band; guess who you have to see in the next day in the hotel in the breakfast room? That...”

“'Dog Years' is sort of my way of saying goodbye and 'see you soon' to my friends from college.”

“But Tammy Faye calls me, and Ron Jeremy calls me, Erik Estrada sends me a Christmas card every year.”

“We all can agree we want our kids active and moving and healthy. But we also have a right to know whether the turf fields our kids are playing on contain harmful chemicals.”