Every accepted public quote

“What are you prepared to give for your dream? If it is not everything...stop pipe dreaming.”

“No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.”

“I prefer catchy, passionate, temperamental music. And as an upside of that, Ghost's repertoire has, over the years, been piqued by a few, sort of, hits.”

“I have deep respect for Rep. Jackie Speier and all that she has done to open doors for women everywhere.”

“I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exhibitions th...”

“There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to 'Americanize' him.”

“If I make a bogey or three putt I'm on fire inside. But it's not like you're going to play any better slamming your club or getting angry. So you might as well just keep it in. People say I'...”

“There was a moment when we were casting 'Groundhog Day' when Bill Murray was not at the top of my list. He'd been getting crankier and crankier. By the end of 'Ghostbusters II', he was prett...”

“Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.”

“I love watching old movies, and I read a lot of autobiographies.”

“Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its...”

“We are disciples of Krishna, and we look at ourselves like Arjun in the battlefield.”

“Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since ou...”

“Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here's what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.”

“There are strong reasons for believing that space goes on beyond the limits of our observational horizon. There are strong reasons because if you look in opposite directions, conditions are...”

“I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.”

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”

“I'm an unlucky charm... don't go anywhere with me.”

“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”

“Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.”

“Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.”

“The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.”

“I love to read. I was in AP English in high school, and we were assigned books every few months. 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' are two of my favorite ones.”

“As for my studies in school, I was a solid student. I was strong in English and Latin, but I got lost anytime the subject included math. I wish I had paid more attention to biology and scien...”

“That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.”

“Republicans should remember that when Trump campaigned, he wasn't holding up a conservative manifesto at every rally.”

“I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am”

“Understanding who you are is saying, 'You're great; you have tons of confidence, and don't ever forget that.' And that helped me, man. Because when things weren't going right, I thought, 'Yo...”

“I've got a personal trainer, and I train three times a week.”

“In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and s...”

“You can't be a perfect environmentalist unless you're Ed Begley, Jr., whom I once saw on TV using a bicycle to power his toaster. He's amazing.”

“The community that stands behind a culture as a comprehensively productive personality must be so extensive that in it, to a certain degree, all partialities balance out and work together.”

“I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.”

“I was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car.”

“The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it f...”

“I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.”

“President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power structure.”

“My father had hammered into me, you want to look after your family, you want a nice house, and you want to be able to enjoy yourself, and you have to work very hard for those things. Don't t...”

“You know how many people would give up their life to get in one NBA game or NFL game or get one fight? Just to do something that has been a dream and they've aspired to do for their whole li...”

“One has to divide Warren Buffet into different periods. There is a continuously evolving style of Warren Buffett.”

“What we collectively decide about how to bail out our economy, how to pull our economy out of a ditch and what rules we put in place to make sure this problem does not happen again, will sha...”

“How lovable someone is does not determine how much they need to be loved.”

“It really has become the singular motivation in my life - to surrender to the art and to the free expression of what I may be experiencing in my life spiritually. It is really hard in the fa...”

“Data from orbiting telescopes like NASA's Kepler Mission hint that the tally of habitable planets in our galaxy is many billion. If E.T.'s not out there, then Earth is more than merely speci...”

“Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.”

“The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above t...”

“Dominant and emerging forms of interpersonal communication have to find their way into literary language somehow - think of the epistolary novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.”

“Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.”