Every accepted public quote

“I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.”

“My mum raised me on 'On the Waterfront,' 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Rear Window.'”

“Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.”

“You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.”

“If you have a candle, you can only see the world. If you have love, you can see the universe.”

“First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.”

“Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.”

“In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.”

“My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren't enough...”

“Time is an illusion. It is a limitation created by our minds. If we stop measuring everything and just enjoy every moment given, life is going to be a lot more exciting.”

“If you read a book about school - someone else's book - you always translate it into your own school experiences. It's describing the student: he's bewildered and lost in a large crowd in a...”

“Why do you chop your life into bits and give the bits names? Hours, days. It is like a rabbit. If I kill a rabbit, I eat a rabbit. When you have a rabbit, you chop it up and call it bones an...”

“If you have a class of 35 children, and they're all smiling, and there's one little bastard, and he's just staring at you as if to say 'Show me', then he's the one you think about going home...”

“Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.”

“The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.”

“When people pick the best drivers of all time, nobody ever picks Lee Trevino. But when he played, like at Tanglewood at the '74 PGA, he missed one fairway in 72 holes.”

“I was never a white guy pretending to be black. Not once, ever, did it occur to me that I was being phony or fraudulent or fake. Quite the opposite - I always believed I was living the trues...”

“Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward to the Rocky Mountains, landing and...”

“Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.”

“I was not involved and am not involved in the questions about the rules governing detention of combatants.”

“If manufacturing jobs do come back to the U.S., they will be done by robots in hi-tech parts of the country rather than the Rust Belt states.”

“I dyed my own hair this Chocolate Cherry color, and I forget what brand it was, but I remember getting into so much trouble because it stained our bathtub. It was this red-black color, and i...”

“After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first.”

“Hardworking, passionate teachers know their students' needs better than anyone else in the school environment. If we can tap into their needs, we can unleash smarter solutions and empower th...”

“I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who've been created. Americans want...”

“Obviously there are positives to working in the epicenter of innovation. But there are also disadvantages. There is a groupthink mentality that goes on. Being based outside of Silicon Valley...”

“If you look hard enough, you'll find that many of the products we use every day - chewing gums, skin moisturizers, disinfecting wipes, air fresheners, water purifiers, health snacks, antiper...”

“But the important thing is for you to understand that it doesn't matter whether the clock strikes ten next, or fifteen o'clock. You can strike your own time, and start the count anywhere. Wh...”

“I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things.”

“In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.”

“Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.”

“I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.”

“And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, an...”

“I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.”

“When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom.”

“Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.”

“Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.”

“Khloe has the youngest hands. You can tell a woman's age by her hands, and she taught me that. She has way younger hands than I do because she's addicted to wearing sunscreen on them. I'm no...”

“I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded athei...”

“While the 2011 revolution did not remove the regime, it has shortened the seemingly endless patience that many Egyptians once had for military rule.”

“I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.”

“I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it...”

“In politics, you've got to have a fallback in our line of work because your career can be over in an instant. Not that I would make much money playing a harmonica.”

“What does it take to win in New Hampshire? Grass roots and financial resources.”

“Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali.”

“He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.”

“There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.”

“One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy...”