Every accepted public quote

“Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.”

“I'm a historian. I really like the past. But most people seem far more interested in what you can tell them about the future.”

“There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.”

“I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.”

“JUST A QUICK REMINDER Never forget to Alway Remember your own worth.x”

“Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”

“Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.”

“It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because generally it's a supporting role, so you go, you do two or three things, you're in touch with people th...”

“There is weakness in resistance, strength in letting go.”

“I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true an...”

“If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience...”

“Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it sounds like. In fact, if the Democrats do their job, it can jus...”

“I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them. And I don't believe in this business of burial. I'm an organ...”

“I'm about being the best.”

“I wrote a novel, Ghost Road Rules, and as soon as it was done and polished, I began reaching out to agents. I ignored the frequent advice to 'shoot low and try for a low-level agent because...”

“A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce an...”

“I hate to work out. I get in a bad mood when I have to do it!”

“A good director makes a playground and allows you to play.”

“The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.”

“I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.”

“I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.”

“Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, t...”

“It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.”

“We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will s...”

“I'm very proud of Family Ties. It's meant a lot to a lot of people.”

“I have a tendency to postpone starting a piece until it's kicked around in my head a little bit.”

“I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to...”

“Over the course of my creative life, I've trafficked in broken, heroic mothers.”

“The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.”

“My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.”

“If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.”

“What can't be cured, must be endured.”

“I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.”

“Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles;...”

“Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potent...”

“Self-belief, also called self-efficacy, is the kind of feeling you have when you have, like a Jedi, mastered a particular kind of skill and with its help have been able to achieve your set g...”

“People are very reluctant to invest unless they know it's going to be a sure thing, and let's face it: film is never a sure thing.”

“The proper study of Mankind is Man.”

“The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself - l...”

“We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.”

“I could not be more proud of the countless lives that I have changed since I began my coaching and mentoring career!”

“My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer,...”

“Our best and brightest must conceive of themselves as stewards of our society and confront the critical challenges of our time. It's the best bet for our society, for entrepreneurs, and for...”

“I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”

“I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.”

“It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.”

“You have my whole heart. You always did.”

“That's the thing about Aquaman that's cool is he's not an alien, right? He's from our planet, and he's from a society that we're not privy to in the context of the story.”