Every accepted public quote

“New Years are so full of Old Year's promises.”

“There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.”

“I was a very happy kid. I didn't get new bikes very often. We ate a lot of chicken legs for dinner. But I never felt in want of anything. I wasn't cognizant until much later of the discrepan...”

“I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour and all you've seen is just the tip of the creature's tail.”

“If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.”

“The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'”

“I grew up on Shane Black movies, and I grew up on Joel Silver movies.”

“To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what...”

“George W. Bush is very popular in Sub-Saharan Africa. Why? Because of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief.”

“There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO sayi...”

“If people didn't know me and only knew my public persona, what I'd want them to know is everything that I do, I do for the Glory of Lord. Because of my Christian faith, that's who I am. I wa...”

“I really don't believe in retiring as long as you can breathe.”

“If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.”

“I have six racquets and usually two pairs of tennis shoes with me. Most of the time, the shoes can last two or three weeks if I'm playing all the week. I'm not the kind of player who slides...”

“I'm kind of obsessed with Bruce Springsteen - the T-shirt and jeans look for me is appealing. Prince was great as well. He designed all of his outfits himself and looked exactly how he wante...”

“It is time to become more deliberate & careful in your thoughts, words, actions, reactions & relations. It is time to choose your own experience in life & to consciously create the outcomes...”

“While you're in space, you grow in height! Without the constant force of gravity on your spine, it stretches out, and you're actually taller when you land. It doesn't last long though.”

“I've been trying to nail it into everyone's heads that I feel like I am the most versatile rapper.”

“I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I...”

“Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.”

“For all the fun, don't forget: I always knew when to put my golf balls down and practice.”

“I was a pretty independent kid. I thought maybe I'd be a veterinarian or an environmental lawyer.”

“It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'”

“My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.”

“Mom always liked to say that we hardly ever know the decisions we make that change our lives, mostly because they are little ones. You took this bus instead of that one and ended up meeting...”

“The economic sanctions against Russia are madness, directed against a neighboring and friendly market.”

“Bolton are an established team in the Premiership these days and well respected by the other sides.”

“I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.”

“A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and...”

“We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at.”

“The men and women in the Armed Forces, that's what I always think about and what I teach my kids about. We're getting ready to sit down at the table and have Thanksgiving, and there's people...”

“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but c...”

“I never saw Frankenstein or King Kong or the Creature from the Black Lagoon as bad guys. They were the good guys.”

“Boxing's a sport that gives you licence to act like an idiot, I think.”

“I am very pro-royal. Britain without them would be a sadder place.”

“Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.”

“The more you practice tolerating uncomfortable emotions, the more confident you'll become in your ability to tolerate the distress that may be necessary to reach your full potential.”

“Anything that consoles is fake.”

“To be fair is not enough any more. We must be ferociously fair.”

“Between himself and her there was that kind of division which is more insurmountable than enmity; for estrangements produced by good judgment will last when those of feeling break down in sm...”

“I propose not our enemies as an example for our general imitation, yet, as their navy is the best regulated of any in the world, we must, in some degree, imitate them and aim at such farther...”

“I love Jennifer Hudson! She is so lovely on screen. She is so buoyant and youthful off screen as much as on.”

“I'm always pleased when people respond to the work.”

“None of us wants to be judged by our worst act on our worst day, and we consistently judge Burr for that. He was not a perfect man, but he's not a villain. He's a dude, just a guy.”

“All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.”

“When you put an individual on the cover of a big picture magazine, like 'Life of Look', their career skyrocketed. As a photographer, you were very empowered; people came to you, bowing to yo...”

“Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.”

“He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.”