Every accepted public quote

“I don't look at the tabloids. I don't read the tabloids.”

“Serum albumin is a well-defined protein, but no laboratory has yet attempted to ascertain its full chemical structure.”

“Throughout the '90s and early 2000s, our financial industry and governments leaned on a snake-oil mirage of wealth creation, a bubble predicated on the obvious falsehood that things could on...”

“My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields of political science, economics,...”

“I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.”

“People say, 'I'm for job training. We can train people to increase the likelihood that they can be self-sufficient.' Okay, that's great, you're for job training - I like job training - but d...”

“As my brother and I get older and busier, I really cherish the time we spend together.”

“As an actor, you get a bit itchy to do something entirely different.”

“You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you.”

“Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.”

“I'd have to say Bali's my favorite place that I've visited.”

“Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.”

“Girls have always wanted to be pretty, even in Egyptian times. Cleopatra wore all that eyeliner, you know.”

“Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?”

“You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!”

“Fat jokes aren't relevant, but they're hilarious when you find them.”

“'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.”

“I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in h...”

“I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic.”

“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.”

“No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.”

“You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, a...”

“You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.”

“Everyone's got talent at the level we're at. But being a smart, tough football player - there's a huge premium for that.”

“I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.”

“So this is what I am Pondering his eyes that could not Conceive that I was a creature to run from I who have always believed too much in words”

“There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrifi...”

“I had a multicultural exposure; that's why I don't believe in a particular religion. I have respect for most because I grew up surrounded by so many. I don't judge people by that, and I feel...”

“Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.”

“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”

“Ye'll never best your fears until ye face them”

“My mama is African American and from Wisconsin. My baba was born in Iran. My parents have stressed the idea of creating your own path, and creating your own identity is part of that. That's...”

“Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private e...”

“More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.”

“I never have cakes or biscuits. I don't have a sweet tooth at all, and I can't stand chocolates - I find them so sickly. However, I will buy cakes if I'm expecting company.”

“Audiences just naturally hate me on screen. I could play a role in a tuxedo, and people would think I was rotten. You can do much more with a villain part.”

“I started when I was six years old. My first coach was my granny, she was the best player in Slovakia.”

“A Gift for You I send you... A cottage retreat on a hill in Ireland. This cottage is filled with fresh flowers, art supplies, and a double-wide chaise lounge in front of a wood-burning firep...”

“I just pretty much go to class, do my work, and go to my dorm and make beats. Or I pull up to a session. That's pretty much my day-to-day.”

“Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.”

“I'm not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don't like L.A., but I'm just a Northern California guy.”

“It ought to be self-evident common sense that service is important to sales. But it's not.”

“Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.”

“When you turn your problem into passion, your solution becomes success.”

“What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of a...”

“It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.”

“On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect...”

“I am 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were 15 months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example,...”