Every accepted public quote

“When I finally came to the United States, I was forced to get a job right away. I spoke no English - none. I started working as an aesthetician in this beautiful boutique salon in Beverly Hi...”

“It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about.”

“A fisherman, say, working on a beach doing his job, may be photographed by a tourist because it's photogenic to see him working, and the Caribbean is extremely photogenic, so poverty is phot...”

“Whether trauma will be a cruel and punishing Gorgon or a vehicle for soaring to the heights of transformation and mastery depends upon how we approach it.”

“First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.”

“I can't dwell on the past, that I haven't won a lot, but anytime I didn't play good was mainly because I didn't putt very good.”

“In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread....”

“I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guil...”

“Get good counsel before you begin: and when you have decided, act promptly.”

“The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.”

“All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritua...”

“I've seen a lot of people burn very brightly and very quickly, and I think you can become overindulgent sooo quickly in this business, and so I try not to fall into any of the trappings that...”

“It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.”

“I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me...”

“In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.”

“A self without a shelf remains cryptic; a home without books naked.”

“I think starting a cinema career late in life has more advantages than disadvantages.”

“Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.”

“Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.”

“When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.”

“To write simply is as difficult as to be good.”

“You have to believe in something, and you have to believe in the things that you feel and find value in those things, and not be swayed all the time. Maybe you're gonna get swayed 90% of the...”

“The cinema is a very truthful medium because the camera doesn't let you get away with anything. On stage, you can even loaf a little, if you're so inclined.”

“What a contrast, Trump is feisty but flexible. Obama, cool but rigid. But he had no reason to bend. The media already bought into his shtick. His giddy fan base ate up every white-coated lie...”

“The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.”

“People are saying I am against the chador. I am not. On the contrary. I am for traditional family values.”

“I'd say I'm really, really good for a 16-year-old, which is where I peaked. I'm impressive, but not classically trained, not a concert pianist.”

“I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.”

“It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.”

“If fans are willing to pay to see you fight, the promoter is happy.”

“It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the ex...”

“Done correctly, everyone from individual speakers to large organizations can inspire citizens and customers to spread a message using their own social channels, and in so doing, inspire coun...”

“Throughout the ages, the wisdom has been taught. Now the language has changed, and truth is given in the language of science.”

“I love going to weddings.”

“I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.”

“I had a PET scan, and it was cleared. Not one cell of cancer after three rounds of chemo. But I still had seven more just for safety, which was stupid. I should have just worked on therapy.”

“Non-fiction is a big responsibility. Rationality. Facts. The urgent need to reflect some small aspect of reality. But fiction is a private autism, a self-referential world in which the write...”

“Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.”

“As I flew back from New Zealand to bury my mother, it occurred to me that no matter how harrowing her loss was and how keenly it will always be felt, there was, nevertheless, a sense of reli...”

“Because my parents were illegal, they couldn't trust anybody. They were always nervous. A neighbor could be like, 'These people are making too much noise, their children are making too much...”

“I mean, I really do think that love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than deat...”

“People complain about Hollywood movies being similar. That goes right down to the fundamental green light process, because the process involves having to compare it to three other movies.”

“There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11.”

“I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.”

“I've seen Jay-Z and Kanye West. I've seen actors like Tom Hanks and Nicholas Cage.”

“I'm not quite that difficult, even though maybe I'm a little bit bossy. But you know, in order to get things done, you do have to be a little bit bossy sometimes or tell people what you real...”

“To not have the wherewithal to give fully to a relationship bothered me.”

“My background is in arts education and we know, absolutely for a fact, that there is no better way for kids to learn critical thinking skills, communication skills, things like empathy and t...”