Every accepted public quote

“Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.”

“I do not agree that South Korea needs to develop our own nuclear weapons or relocate tactical nuclear weapons in the face of North Korea's nuclear threat.”

“To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.”

“I don't choose something unless I think I have a personal understanding and something I can offer. It's not always thematic. I wanted to do 'The Grinch' because I wanted to direct Jim Carrey...”

“The evolutionary algorithm of all life on earth is written in this universal language we call love.”

“I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the sympto...”

“In Japan, they have TV sets in cars right now, where you can punch up traffic routes, weather, everything! You can get Internet access already in cars in Japan, so within the next 2 to 3 yea...”

“President Bush said that if illegal immigrants want citizenship, they'd have to do three things: pay taxes, hold meaningful jobs, and learn English. Bush doesn't meet those qualifications.”

“Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.”

“Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.”

“Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some politi...”

“In Holland we have always viewed Villa as an important club with a tradition of being powerful in Europe when I was younger, so I would be very interested in managing them if the job was off...”

“I know everything I do is going to be magnified.”

“I'm a really nostalgic person. I love taking photos and video and having memories. I remember all my childhood videos that my dad used to take. I think that's really what life is about - esp...”

“I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.”

“Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and...”

“Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the r...”

“The theme of 'A Christmas Story' is that you can count on Christmas - that everybody has a Christmas story. Everybody has that time in the holiday season that they remember.”

“My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.”

“I love old-time music, I love country music and I love the American music that we have to offer the world. And any part of that is fine with me, as long as it's pure.”

“My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.”

“I remember they used to tell me, they said, 'Khaled, you can't get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.' So I went and bought a Phantom.”

“We don't know who John Brown was, and in many ways, his work shaped where we are today. He was a Pennsylvanian. He was the prototypical Yankee who fought back and suffered in doing so.”

“When I was growing up, my favorite movie was 'Somewhere in Time' with Christopher Reeve, which is a hugely romantic, sappy movie. I couldn't understand it when the guy didn't get the girl or...”

“Some people feel that the world owes them a living.”

“Before I came to New York, I only had a few pictures of the city in my mind. And you know 'That Girl?' Marlo Thomas jumping with her hat? I always loved that, and I wondered what that double...”

“I have a company in the U.K., a performance-capture studio. We're looking to push the boundaries of performance-capture technology in film and video games, but also in live theater, using re...”

“The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.”

“When I talk to the camera, mate, it's not like I'm talking to the camera, I'm talking to you because I want to whip you around and plunk you right there with me.”

“The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.”

“Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.”

“My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.”

“Unfortunately, there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism.”

“But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into...”

“How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”

“There's always a thrill to see a guy's face when you sent 'em packing because you're gonna be the last person they thought about, the whole offseason.”

“I know music is subjective.”

“Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.”

“I've always loved the rustic, slightly worn style of Canvas and that element of an artisanal hand. It's so inherently chic.”

“FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy.”

“I couldn't pass a senior high school math test right now, but I could probably teach intellectual property and trademark law at Harvard.”

“Piety begins at home.”

“Comedy, not screaming at someone, can make someone lift their legs higher. There is a way to do a push-up and a sit-up, and it doesn't have to be so complicated. Everyone is putting a diffic...”

“Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.”

“I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.”

“The founding father of Albanian literature is the nineteenth-century writer Naim Frasheri. Without having the greatness of Dante or Shakespeare, he is nonetheless the founder, the emblematic...”

“Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.”

“The first movie I produced was a movie that Joel Schumacher wrote and directed called 'Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill.'”