Every accepted public quote

“Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.”

“There's an issue with the Medicare doctor reimbursement rates where at the end of the year every doctor that folks in this country use that provide Medicare services is going to get a 30 per...”

“Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines o...”

“I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.”

“Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if...”

“I would not rule out Rupert Murdoch once again having control of 'Sky News.'”

“Box office success is pertinent but the story has to have a life beyond the two hours.”

“But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.”

“While others still slept, He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need of this, otherwise He would not have been ready for the new day. The holy w...”

“Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'”

“I like being busy.”

“Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.”

“In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts, which He also gave us.”

“Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.”

“One thing I've been thinking about is taking the social issues out of national politics. For example, if Georgia wanted abortion and Alabama didn't, that's going to be up to the people in Ge...”

“I feel like my story just proves how important not only social media is, but how important it is to be your authentic self. Because when you're really truly your authentic self, the right pe...”

“I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.”

“I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.”

“I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part...”

“If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.”

“Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.”

“I think there's been this whole image of masculinity that's been out in society - of brooding, brutish, egotistical, narcissistic men - like, this patriarchy.”

“Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they tak...”

“Alexandria Ocasio? I think she's dope.”

“Domesticated males aren't much use for adventure.”

“I am very spontaneous when I write; it kind of just comes out. I never think about what I'm going to write about first... it just sort of comes out like word vomit.”

“Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.”

“There has been a black hole in the bar business in Las Vegas, particularly on the Strip in tourist areas.”

“I sing in full voice in the car and have a tendency to harmonize badly.”

“Getting married in four days was the biggest... mistake I've ever made. I have two beautiful kids, but... how can you know somebody in four days? Bonehead.”

“You'd be amazed how much fun you can have if you get out of your own head. The problem is that now people are only interested in themselves. What we have is a non-voting generation. That's w...”

“If you are good life is good.”

“To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”

“People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?”

“We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.”

“Misguided economic and tax policies have hampered growth, allowing the rich to become richer while turning the middle class into the working poor.”

“Renzi is a pawn. Renzi is a dumb slave at the disposal of nameless people who want to control all of our lives from Brussels.”

“I want to highlight that Italy, every year, sends 6 billion euros in cash to Brussels. I cannot give these 6 billion euros to Brussels and then let them damage us on the fronts of agricultur...”

“Certainly the highest posthumous praise that can be conferred upon any writer is the assertion that his or her writing permanently altered the literary landscape for the better, opening new...”

“Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.”

“When I was ten, I went to seven schools in one year in Nova Scotia. Me and my mum moved there so that I could be closer to my dad, who is an ice-truck driver, but it didn't work out.”

“Every album that I've attempted, I suppose, has been different - it's bound to be.”

“I don't generally hang out with crazy people.”

“Only after loving you I realised I had an empty space; this little void, a tad bit of hollow inside a corner of my heart and it screamed: Fill me up!”

“Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.”

“Voter fraud especially matters when elections are close.”

“I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled in...”

“The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do it. I think I'd be terrible.”