Every accepted public quote

“I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.”

“The greatest happiness in the world is in helping the people you don't know and seeing them happy.”

“Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.”

“If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success.”

“Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.”

“My highest priority is the safety of all Oregonians and their communities.”

“You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just d...”

“I have so much confidence in the reality of Jesus that I feel no pressure to try to make people act or be a certain way. I'm banking everything on the fact that God actually changes people.”

“Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternit...”

“All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity.”

“But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.”

“Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.”

“Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.”

“When it's late in a game and things are tough and you need a basket, someone has to step up. That player has to have the ability to create opportunities and draw fouls.”

“Follow your heart and make it your decision.”

“You don't make a case for reparations thinking, 'Oh yeah, people are gonna love this.' I didn't see that coming.”

“When I get dressed, I do wear Armani.”

“We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the...”

“I bruise like a grape.”

“You might say, 'Can't we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?' In this way we'd become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake an...”

“Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.”

“Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.”

“I think right now, you've seen these artists pop up over the last decade who've flirted with branching together a lot of different kinds of music. Some of them have been huge, and sold milli...”

“I had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September.”

“Company naming is a key part of the branding process, but it's subject to contrasting tastes and an illiquid domain name market that results in startups wasting their time during the brandin...”

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”

“There's a lot of mythological stories you can tell. There's not just one. I appreciate all of those different kinds, but what I was personally missing was grand, classic, true-north hero. Pu...”

“You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already know what you think.”

“About five, six FBI agents walked into the courthouse and arrested me. They said I was being arrested for distribution of information related to explosives over the Internet.”

“A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.”

“Checks aren't money.”

“Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and e...”

“All movements go too far.”

“Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market or at least find someone who will pay yo...”

“Love is a panacea for a wound that never stops weeping.”

“I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in...”

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”

“I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another through technology. Facebook's reduction of people to predic...”

“What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.”

“Sports is just something I have a knack to figure out how to play.”

“The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.”

“It's cool when fans spend so much time making things for me. It means a lot.”

“Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.”

“It can get really messy inside my head, and it's usually just because everybody can get really self-centered at some point. And so what usually keeps me from quitting is that my reasons for...”

“Because most startups are lean and scrappy organizations consisting of a limited number of people and supported by an even smaller number of resources, startups cannot afford to have any sla...”

“Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive.”

“I am not a weirdo, a wacko, or an eccentric for wanting to do good, honest work on a day-to-day basis.”

“When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowl...”