Every accepted public quote

“The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.”

“I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started my own company with the help of my two friends. I became a success story, and people relate to...”

“One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.”

“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.”

“Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. I...”

“Shostakovich's final pieces, his quartets, are scratching the surface of another world.”

“There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying, 'Go in and do this nasty job.' Whatever the job is, we can do it....”

“Millions of people are asking for accountability, for responsibility, for truth from their elected officials, truth about how Obamacare is failing the men and women of America.”

“Friendship increases in visiting friends, but not in visiting them too often.”

“I asked certain rich men if they felt embittered. 'How could we not?' they said. So I asked them what caused this anguish. They blamed their wealth.”

“Glory be to Him who changes others and remains Himself unchanged!”

“Falling in love is a wonderfully terrifying sensation.”

“I got a top-secret security clearance and served in the CIA.”

“My father - who was a master sergeant and the toughest man I've even known - next to him, Coach Lombardi was a piece of cake.”

“The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it.”

“Writing Vampire Erotica is like writing sex scenes for porcupines.”

“Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.”

“I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.”

“My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer...”

“I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.”

“It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivati...”

“Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.”

“Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disea...”

“Theology necessitates an image of God as a conscious, rational, supernatural being of unlimited power and scope who cares about humans and imposes moral codes and responsibilities upon them,...”

“I think my whole life had centered on Democratic politics. I was very much in that bubble. I worked in the Clinton administration so I had all these friends from there, and then in Democrati...”

“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.”

“To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.”

“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.”

“I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.”

“I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.”

“I think a lot of the best ideas come from the grassroots; I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.”

“Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.”

“Faith in God is like a well watered garden.”

“My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.”

“A song is about heartbreak - but what are the constituent feelings? What are the aspects? There is anger, there is guilt, there are all these different things. I guess putting those voices i...”

“Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a litt...”

“The director needs to be in command on set because everything crumbles if that's not the case.”

“In 1994, nobody could have predicted 'Shawshank' would one day be an iconic movie - and believe me, that would never have happened if Danny Glover had been Red instead of Morgan Freeman.”

“I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.”

“Joe DeGuardia, I love that guy. He's not a superstar promoter yet, but he will be. He was a fighter himself; he's staying the course with these guys. He's developing some good fighters out t...”

“An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.”

“I was racially discriminated against for years as a child in Leeds because I was an Italian.”

“You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.”

“Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to be unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess...”

“Time well spent is like a whetstone, it sharpens our minds and refines our imperfections.”

“If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.”

“And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full of conviction. Cain's women are sexual.”

“I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.”