Every accepted public quote

“Unexamined wallpaper is classroom practices and institutional policies that are so entrenched in school culture or a teacher's paradigm that their ability to affect student learning is never...”

“I would come home and re-create every movie. Our backyard became a battleship, a war zone, a western town.”

“I think where I differ a little bit, we absolutely have to think about the deficit looking down the road. And certainly that's something the president has said that we need to, as the econom...”

“My foundation is jazz. I do all the things jazz musicians do.”

“I just like the lineage and the heritage and the fact that British dance music is still progressing. I'm from London; I love London, and I wouldn't know how else to show that love in musical...”

“I wanted to retire after I played for the Mets. My family said wait one year, that there was no need to rush it. I gave it a year and now it's time to say goodbye.”

“I want to have hit records, but I'm not searching to say, 'All right, I need this to be in the club. I need this, that.' I'm just making quality music.”

“To people who traditionally charge $10,000 for a 3D animating app, we say you should be free-to-play and generate a revenue stream. Think of a 3D modeling package almost like an RPG.”

“I feel like, in football, you always have to prove yourself as well. The past is in the past. Last season was last season.”

“No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about h...”

“The only problem is time.”

“Specifically, the U.S. holds strength. Its own context makes it a very competitive country, but I believe that if we recognize how interdependent the U.S. with its neighbors from the North a...”

“The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.”

“With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.”

“It takes but one person, one moment, one conviction, to start a ripple of change.”

“The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.”

“The men who use Bumble appreciate a confident woman, a woman who has a voice. A lot of men suffer from insecurity and fear rejection, too. Bumble removes that fear, as they don't have to mak...”

“The reality is that every human being is placed on this planet, and one of the things that drives humans is their need for meaning, and if you can make every job meaningful, then you will gu...”

“Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.”

“People are rejecting the power of the elite, but individuals such as Snowden are doing so in a positive way, trying to change things for the better. He is a very intelligent man and obviousl...”

“A lot of shows, things will just simmer and simmer and maybe never explode into the open, or only risk exploding into the open when it's clear that the series has gotten to its endgame. So I...”

“In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.”

“I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.”

“A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.”

“The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.”

“I'm glad Phil Jackson got the rings for Chicago. You traded me away from New York, cool. It's all business; it's all love, whatever. But I'm a grownup now. You not my hero no more.”

“Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it's a great team sport, so I don't get carried away with a bunch of acc...”

“What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.”

“It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.”

“Restaurants are like having children: it's fun to make them, maybe, but then you have them for good and bad. You are going to have to raise them and if something goes wrong when they are 30...”

“Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.”

“I'm proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it's a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was made with so much care and passion and meticulous detail and everybody was so be...”

“Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing a...”

“I remember when I was in 'Rent,' Daphne Rubin-Vega threw a party. At the time, she had a loft in TriBeCa, and the elevator opened right into her apartment. I was like, 'I've never seen anyth...”

“Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.”

“When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences of foreign language films have not been cultivated. There's a market, but...”

“Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.”

“What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?”

“When I took over the family business, it had already been a publicly traded company for 20 years. During one of the first annual meetings I attended, one shareholder stood up and advised me...”

“I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.”

“It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jai...”

“I made several short films with very little dialogue. I'm still not a fan of talking heads. My stories are told with images as much as possible.”

“'To Kill a Mockingbird' was so important because it was such adult film-making - to see something that dealt with such an important issue and had such an enlightened outlook on the world.”

“There are people that regardless of what it is, if it's something that's stressful, whatever it may be, they don't eat, they lose a lot of weight, a divorce, they get real thin. I'm the oppo...”

“You must lose a fly to catch a trout.”

“The U.S. is the biggest investor in research and development in the world. It has the best universities. Keeping them supplied with the best talent is essential.”

“The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.”

“One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.”