Every accepted public quote

“By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.”

“Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.”

“Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.”

“My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man;”

“Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.”

“I don't feel like I've changed as much as radio formats have changed.”

“I believe in Las Vegas. I think its best days are ahead of it. But I'm afraid to do anything in the current political environment in the United States.”

“Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.”

“I don't want to sound Pollyannish about this. I understand that poverty is never just poverty. It's often this collection of maladies, this compounded adversity. I'm not naive about the prob...”

“I just love characters that are complex, that you can dig into and keep itching the scratch and never quite be satisfied because they have enough going on with them that it's like a giant pu...”

“Sometimes, in a fictional story, you can be more honest and truthful, actually. As a journalist, you're a prisoner of the data, in effect. You have to tell the story with evidence you can ve...”

“Good business relationships build trust and create a way to exchange ideas openly without second-guessing the other person.”

“The word 'God' usually signifies 'Lord', but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, su...”

“Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial.”

“I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic sc...”

“In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.”

“The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.”

“The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.”

“I have no opinion on 48 frames a second at all. I'd be completely unsuitable to talk about that.”

“It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect f...”

“Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.”

“As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.”

“I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.”

“Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn't need to be explained to everyday Americans.”

“She: You are just adorable! I can never forget that you helped me fight depression! He: You are magic! You made me fall in love with life!”

“All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it...”

“I'm just an American dream.”

“At Real Madrid, everything gets taken to extremes, as much for the good things as the bad things, so you have to adapt to the way that the press and the fans live through different situation...”

“We went to labor in the fields, my wife and I, hand in hand. Scarcely were we conscious of the fatigues of the day. Heaven always blessed our toil.”

“I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.”

“You can always tell a person's real character and personhood by those who closely surround him, especially if they're family.”

“Many times when we are talking about displacement, we talk about it within the frame of gentrification, which focuses on transitioning neighborhoods. But man, every city I've looked at, Milw...”

“You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he want...”

“The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not...”

“I know what I know until I try to say it. Then I don't know it.”

“Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.”

“We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.”

“Surveys of thousands of gamers have shown that they're more likely to play real music if they play a music videogame. So it's an interesting relationship where the games aren't replacing som...”

“'The Handmaid's Tale' is a human story, and women's rights are human rights, and it's all about equality, but at the end of the day, it's not equal.”

“Thing is, I went to a born-again Christian high school, was brought up in a traditional Mormon family where these ideas about parenting are of structure and sacrifice. To think outside of th...”

“In New York especially, I always want to wear a nice overcoat to get through the winter: you can wear them so many times, and they make every outfit better.”

“Tito Ortiz vs. Chuck Liddell III, the fight that all the fans wanted to see for the longest time and never got a chance to. I never got a fair shake when I was with the UFC against Chuck, an...”

“Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.”

“I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.”

“Fortunately, there's another handy driver that has manifested itself throughout the history of cultures. The urge to want to gain wealth. That is almost as potent a driver as the urge to mai...”

“The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out...”

“I'm not feeling R. Kelly. And I got a daughter, so I'm super not jacking R. Kelly at all.”

“It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.”