Every accepted public quote

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”

“Happiness is when you're singing lullabies as you watch your baby fall asleep.”

“I went from being the Terminator to being the governator.”

“By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.”

“The thinnest thing in the world is the border between good and evil... my next The Opposite Of Magic.”

“You have a lot of great teams in the NBA. I watched San Antonio against Dallas, and they're two great teams, and there are great teams in the east, as well. So it takes time to gel, as we've...”

“If you find yourself plagued by a recurrent worry, train yourself to think of something else. Your conscious mind can concentrate on only one thought at a time, and driving the negativity aw...”

“We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.”

“In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig.”

“When I go back home now, when I go back to Nigeria now, I get off the plane in Lagos and I just don't think of race. I get on the plane and arrive in Atlanta, and immediately I'm aware of ra...”

“Even if we don't play fantastically, with good passing and precision and finesse, the most important thing is to win.”

“I am profoundly grateful that all of my life I have had a simple faith that Jesus is the Christ. That witness has been confirmed to me hundreds of times. It is the crowning knowledge of my s...”

“A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.”

“Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.”

“I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable ... I can't help it, it's my personality.”

“I'm a filmmaker to my bones.”

“What they do in America in all those sitcoms is hire glamorous girls and they're never that funny... that's because they've never had to develop a personality because they're hot.”

“We've all had relationships; I've had them in my past, and I don't look back on them and think, 'Ah, that was a mistake.' I take what I learnt and move onto the next one.”

“I thought I was grounded. I thought from my kinda blue-collar outlook on life that I would call myself a grounded person. I was not. I was like a balloon flying around in the air. And as soo...”

“This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.”

“I think, all my life, I've grown up and had high expectations, but that becomes so stressful.”

“Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.”

“A lot of people talk about video games as something nerds do. But we look at it as a way to connect with people. It's something that's positive, that brings people together.”

“I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.”

“I have a beautiful wife, I have two great kids, my career's still going, I've got my health. What can I ask for?”

“Film schools are now nearly 50-50 male-female, and women are also well represented at festivals and in indie film. But what happens to them after they direct their first film or short? Where...”

“I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.”

“The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.”

“Any life truly lived is a risky business, and if one puts up too many fences against the risks one ends by shutting out life itself.”

“In retrospect, the most unnerving aspect of being openly gay was that it turned out to be as disappointingly normal as being straight.”

“I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's go...”

“In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and wer...”

“No one means all he says and yet very few say all they mean.”

“Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, westerns, travel books, science fiction. A boy will accept anything from a section he knows r...”

“These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But if they perceive a slight against God, it i...”

“I maintain that the past record of my race is a true index of the feelings which today animate them. They bear toward their former masters no revengeful thoughts, no hatreds, no animosities....”

“Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.”

“The nights are best when bright with the wonderment of the world beyond.”

“I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to college. Why? Because rich people's kids go to college. And if that's good enough for them, it's...”

“I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I made 'The Bourne Identity,' and ultimately the impact of that film was that it changed the 'James Bond'...”

“Being described as a stupid bureaucrat with no link to representative democracy is difficult to take.”

“Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.”

“Health is the new wealth!”

“Civil disobedience is, in fact, a conservative idea, a few steps short of overt rebellion. It honors the rule of law by insisting on good law and rejecting bad law.”

“I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.”

“The thing about innovation in financial markets is they're always building on what has come before. It's a natural process.”

“I genuinely love Oasis, and I also genuinely love Beyonce. My body gets the same pleasure. If you like different types of music, it's OK to say it.”

“If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change in your life and the way you see things.”