Every accepted public quote

“If you stop for lunch elsewhere in the world, you tend to eat a sandwich, and a bad one. Italy is unique for the style of life. I think everyone envies it a bit.”

“I rescue families who are losing their homes because they have no jobs and they can't pay the mortgage and the banks are foreclosing on their homes.”

“I had a gypsy upbringing, so I moved around all over the place and can't remember a street I grew up on.”

“Incidents of the past - a lost love, a missed opportunity - shape us and make us what we are.”

“Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you...”

“I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had noth...”

“Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.”

“The 'Iliad' covered only two months of the great ten-year war with Troy. At least six other epic poems preceded or continued the events in the 'Iliad', but they survive only as fragments.”

“Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.”

“He fills the disciple with wisdom and sets his soul aglow, so that one day the disciple can re-ignite the flame in many more.”

“'Ghost Hunters,' they like to go out and disprove everything and just wave a bunch of equipment around for a couple hours.”

“I'm someone that's a hard worker and takes their job seriously and gives it all they've got.”

“I have never known Frances to complain once of my Church responsibilities. I have been gone many days and many nights, and I have rarely been able to sit with her in the congregation. But th...”

“I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.”

“In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great.”

“[...] provability is a weaker notion than truth”

“I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing, the importance of talking in a few words.”

“All of us are much more human than otherwise.”

“Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.”

“If our ethical code makes a purely arbitrary distinction between humans and all other species, then we have a code based on naked selfishness devoid of any higher principle.”

“I've always said that, first and foremost, I make films for New Zealanders. They're my target audience. Then after that, if people appreciate my stories from outside this country, then that'...”

“Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.”

“The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more...”

“I love Charlotte Olympia and Sophia Webster shoes best - they're like art for the feet.”

“Today, fashion shows are now blogged and broadcast all over the world via social media. By the time the merchandise ships many months later, the newness and excitement has worn off, and in m...”

“Just because it's been around for centuries, doesn't mean it's cool to be a creepy old man.”

“I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.”

“Canada has always been a strong supporter of China's accession to the WTO... We look forward to playing a constructive role in helping complete China's accession.”

“Not intending to be funny: I sit at the keyboard, put my fingers on the keys and go. To me, it's the real secret of writing. Put yourself in front of the screen or the blank sheet of paper a...”

“The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

“I let all go, let if flow. I let it be. Now it's me that's here for me. All the forests and the rains that filled my heart when there were pains, all the cats and dogs and birds that sang fo...”

“What makes a person successful is not always the opportunities they choose to take; but the ones that they are disciplined enough to walk away from.”

“The studio thought I was crazy to perform all of my own fencing stunts, but I loved it.”

“Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”

“A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly...”

“I am very much a people person.”

“My fervent expectation is that sooner rather than later, the United States Senate will more closely reflect the rich diversity of this great country.”

“Stats are for losers, really. You've just got to go and play better, flat out.”

“I would hope that people didn't think I was anything like Joan! It's very hard for me because Joan says such cruel things all the time. It sort of makes me cringe every time I read them beca...”

“When we talk about my music, it's a cross between Tina Turner, Alanis Morrisette, and Diana Ross. It's the glamour and the showiness of Diana Ross; the ferociousness and pain of Tina Turner;...”

“I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers. And if that's the case, you ain't self-ma...”

“Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?”

“Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.”

“Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.”

“I am songwriter. I do compose the music of songs that I write in Bengali. But I've never thought of composing for a film. That's a different art altogether.”

“I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.”

“There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets sick, do you take it to the vet and amputate the fin? No, you clean the water. So, I c...”

“The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised. Obama and the Democrats have a fight with the American people, not with me.”