Every accepted public quote

“I'd like to write songs for other people, see things from a different perspective. I'd like to watch things from the dugout instead of the pitch.”

“You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a danc...”

“Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.”

“Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, th...”

“The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.”

“People make basic assumptions based on what they have now. But you have to ask yourself, 'Is this really what people are going to be doing in five years?' Very few people ask themselves what...”

“Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.”

“It only takes a handful of sizeable companies to reach a tipping point and to transform markets.”

“Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him.”

“For more than three months, I had been president and primary owner of Spellman Investigations, and I can say with complete certainty that I had more power in this office as an underling. My...”

“When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.”

“Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.”

“You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.”

“With Led Zeppelin, it has always been that mystique of how the music is done - how it works, why it works.”

“Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.”

“You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.”

“f you shift your perspective and stop expecting your relationship is supposed to MAKE you happy, you stop giving your power to someone else. You'll stop feeling entitled that it's someone's...”

“The biggest way to say, philosophically, you'll never be part of a war is to look completely the opposite of anyone in a war.”

“The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their...”

“I'm not good with limitations. I tend to like to find my own. It hurts sometimes, but it's good. I'm little extreme in that sense - the middle ground is not my forte.”

“Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?”

“To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.”

“I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal.”

“I used to think that eating healthy was ordering a fish sandwich at McDonalds.”

“When they put me on ESPN and they talk about negative things, or when they put me on TMZ and they talk about negative things, I'm just glad that I'm relevant; to have lasted this long being...”

“Thermostats are made by very large companies with no incentive to innovate. Their customers are contractors or HVAC wholesalers, not consumers. So why spend to make them better? It's a good...”

“I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and I was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of t...”

“Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.”

“There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a se...”

“Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.”

“I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.”

“I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.”

“There is genuine healing in a beautifully crafted musical theatre song, like Stephen Sondheim's 'Losing My Mind,' or a pop music gem like Joni Mitchell's 'Help Me.'”

“The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing. It can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether they're leftist or rightist, or radical, or...”

“For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.”

“We are a family that likes to keep things abreast about what's happening in the country so dinner table conversations revolve around Social, political, films... a bit of everything. Films we...”

“Jimmy Boggs was born in a little town called Marion Junction, Alabama, where there were as many pigs, or more pigs, than even the people. But you know what? People in the South had an unders...”

“We understand that, in our communities, black trans folk, gender-nonconforming folk, black queer folk, black women, black disabled folk - we have been leading movements for a long time, but...”

“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”

“When I was three years old, one of the first albums I ever heard was Michael Jackson's 'Off the Wall.'”

“I used to go to the school plays my kids were in, and who were the angels at Christmas time? The blonde, blue-eyed girls. Who was Mary? And the shepherds were all the black and Indian kids i...”

“Joblessness is a time for reflection”

“Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.”

“When my book was first sent out to publishers, my agent told me to buy a lot of ice-cream and wait. So I bought a gigantic amount of ice-cream, and huddled by the freezer eating it and shaki...”

“At 8, I made a pact with God.”

“Worship thee Almighty & ye shall have all virtues, morals and success. He will increase your knowledge into the unseen, unknown but abides in all. Open thy conscience with intent. Ye shall h...”

“My feeling is, if you're going to be called a celebrity, you might as well use it for some good. It's better to testify for school lunches in front of Congress than get drunk in a bar somewh...”

“I loved to party with the Rat Pack; they were so much fun.”