Every accepted public quote

“While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.”

“One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely...”

“The Guinness book is a very elitist organization. There's nothing scientific about what they do. They just have an office full of people who decide what is a record and what isn't.”

“You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.”

“The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate it.”

“I believe the favor of God on my life is not for me to keep to myself and become proud of, but to be used for others... I believe God has a plan for me in the entertainment world.”

“I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know t...”

“I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.”

“You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.”

“We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.”

“In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.”

“Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But a radical minority of Muslims firmly believes that I...”

“Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.”

“When you start traveling and thinking from a global perspective, you realize how small the planet is and how predatory we are to its ecology.”

“It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.”

“In general, losing weight is a good thing for those who are overweight, but it's important to lose weight in a way that enhances your health rather than one that may compromise it.”

“I have done theatre, and I enjoy the process of smaller films a lot more. When I do such films, there are certain things which I get to do which are untapped. The scenes give me the liberty...”

“A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.”

“I'm interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.”

“There is something about New Orleans that embodies passion; I've never seen that before. There's something tangible about the essence of the city. You can taste and smell it.”

“Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon th...”

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”

“I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.”

“I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.”

“It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than any...”

“That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.”

“The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.”

“If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.”

“If you really want to be a good archaeologist, you have to understand ancient DNA; you have to understand chemical analysis to figure out the composition of ancient pots. You have to be able...”

“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”

“I've been to the White House and had Hilary Clinton push through the crowd to come and meet me. Chelsea Clinton, too.”

“I'm theologically in line with the Roman Catholic Church. I believe in the authority of the church, but I also have tremendous respect for my brothers and sisters in other Christian faiths.”

“I don't listen to anybody's full record anymore and when I did, I don't think I listened to the whole record. I'm sorry, and I don't care who it is, if it's the Beatles, I can't listen to an...”

“I've spent a lot of time in America since Sept. 11, 2001. Being here, I was noticing that the people, who in the '60s used to voice their opinions about their rights, are much different toda...”

“Jesus never pussyfooted”

“Ask any rapper or singer what artist they are an expert on. What artist are they looking to emulate, and really, what artist is the one person they are an expert on? You see, if you want any...”

“I'm into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts - everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I've got a Chicago one worth $100.”

“It's unfathomable how you live without your mother.”

“The pain of loving your boyfriend to a point that u can't even cheat on him”

“I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years an...”

“The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceedin...”

“With 'Dawn,' I wanted the slick look; I wanted to bring out the nature of the shopping center, the retail displays, the mannequins. There are times when maybe you reflect that the mannequins...”

“U.S. stocks did not recoil from Trump's electoral victory, instead setting a record for election-to-year-end gains.”

“Do not allow deceitfulness of sin to harden heart.”

“I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.”

“The threshold question: Will banks continue to exist? The answer is yes, because society will still need the two essential functions they provide: mobilization of capital from providers to u...”

“I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the plane. It had seven or eight songs in it. After that, I'm not writing any more...”

“I was in love with Michael Keaton. He was very funny.”