Every accepted public quote

“Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind and...”

“One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.”

“Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.”

“I will always make music with Stone Sour. Stone Sour will always be here.”

“We're from Athens, Alabama. That's my town. People think it's Muscle Shoals, but they have no idea. It's a quiet, sleepy little town, about 45 minutes from Muscle Shoals. It's really hard to...”

“Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.”

“Whether it was turning around failing companies, rescuing the Olympics, or improving the business climate in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney has proven that he is ready to be president on Day One...”

“It's always a good time to step up and look up. What do you see? Hope for a better future.”

“There are so many tropes in 'Sex Education'; don't get me wrong. There are lots of formulaic things, but the reason they're in there is because they work, and we can rework them because peop...”

“I'm such a pleaser - I want everyone around me to be happy - so it took a while for me to get to a point where I could say 'no, I need to be happy with everything that I put out.' I want it...”

“As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel p...”

“Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.”

“At Netflix, we realized that we weren't in business with the Toshibas and the Sonys of the world. We were in business with the guy sitting at home trying to find a DVD to watch. If we had th...”

“No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the pena...”

“Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.”

“A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I...”

“I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher, and they're better listeners, and they're mor...”

“I actually run a nonprofit that's all about giving people opportunities to be their own heroes and do their own work.”

“I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.”

“So let's make a deal. I will try to do the best I can to do good in the world. I will serve others, and I will work against suffering. But I have to keep asking these questions about your ju...”

“I was raised with traditional stories of leadership: Robert E. Lee, John Buford at Gettysburg. And I also was raised with personal examples of leadership. This was my father in Vietnam. And...”

“What I have advocated is that we pass law in this country that says all human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection. In fact, I think that law already exists. It is...”

“I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.”

“It's no use crying over spilt summits.”

“I have this thing for British women. I love Judi Dench. I love Helen Mirren. I love these women, and I definitely do have big girl crushes on them.”

“When I fly British Airways, I can't help but read the free Daily Mail, which makes me glad I am leaving the country.”

“Focus on your goals, not your fear. Focus like a laser beam on your goals.”

“I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It was the first grown-up book that I had read. It is the story of a young man who grows up to be a noveli...”

“Women have come a long way , since that day on September 7th 1968 , when they burnt myriad symbolic feminine products , including mops and bras , as a mark of protest . The women wanted to c...”

“Okay is my prayer.”

“If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. T...”

“Well, I'm not a big sports fan.”

“Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.”

“My dream is to achieve AI for the common good.”

“I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.”

“I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.”

“I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.”

“There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fi...”

“We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces - or at the very least a plan for it - something the administration has incredulously failed to do for over two years.”

“You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.”

“When I see these kids 6 years old with a private coach, and at 7, they have a fitness coach, I'm like, 'Aw, come on.' At 12, it's for sure they will lose all the interest in tennis because t...”

“My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec....”

“As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being...”

“There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many sto...”

“Being denied disability payments shatters your faith in corporate government.”

“I think fans are going to get everything you'd expect from 'The Office', from awkwardness, to a lot of humor and heart.”

“The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.”

“Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.”