Every accepted public quote

“We all want pleasure, we don't want pain. We love sunshine, and pray that it doesn't rain. But if we don't realize, who we are and why we are here, our life will go in vain.”

“God can multiply your blessings. You just need to trust in Him.”

“I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid.”

“I've always heard that heli-skiing in Alaska is amazing. I would love to be able to do that at some point in my life.”

“If you develop a product that gets what the customer is trying to get done, you don't have to advertise; people will just pull it into their lives.”

“I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as your poster boy, wouldn't it?”

“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”

“When Twitter made its way to my radar I looked at it as a curiosity, then started experimenting. I approached that as a place to be less formal and more off-the-cuff, honest and 'human.'”

“I'm a true believer in the strength of teamwork, in the power of dreams.”

“Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.”

“It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.”

“We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will...”

“Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is as if he was sent to this earth with the sole purpo...”

“The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing t...”

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.”

“I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they sho...”

“My cards and flowers always got rejected on Valentines Day.”

“I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the present, and the future, in the noggin e...”

“I love 'Annie Hall,' but then I adore 'Hannah and Her Sisters.' Dianne Wiest is amazing in 'Bullets Over Broadway,' but her in 'Hannah and Her Sisters,' I absolutely loved it.”

“Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.”

“I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.”

“I would write a scientific paper with the devil, if it was on high temperatures. The fellow's probably an authority.”

“When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.”

“Sometimes I miss you, which is strange, because you weren't at all the way I remember you.”

“I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed...”

“Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.”

“The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.”

“Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.”

“Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.”

“The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.”

“Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.”

“Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return ho...”

“People always want narratives to be clean and easy.”

“I find my dress sense tends to be a bit of a mixture between high fashion and unique vintage pieces with a little bit of street trends. For example, I might find a really nice, suede dinner...”

“Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - 'Casablanca,' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you just described the thing you remember most about it? Doubtful. Narrati...”

“I thought Mia Hansen-Love was a true auteur, and I always wanted to work with her. Mia's empathy for her characters and her ability to use the language of cinema to communicate real human de...”

“What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. At the bottom, there's really not that much difference between Christians and Muslims and Hindus a...”

“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”

“Our opposition to Trident is very clear, very firm, very long-standing, very principled, and we would seek to build an alliance to prevent the renewal of Trident.”

“When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.”

“If I got Corey Graves into a fisticuffs, I would beat him down like he stole something.”

“And the bitterness of all his defeat.”

“I'm really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don't even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to th...”

“I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.”

“I think it's time to have a celebration of life and renew our vows. And this time we're going to write the vows because they're going to mean a lot more. We certainly put the 'in sickness an...”

“I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.”

“My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre...”

“If every soldier is authorized to make one mistake, then we lose the war.”