Every accepted public quote

“Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records,...”

“My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.”

“I had a standing agreement with god. I'd agree to believe in him, barely, so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.”

“There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.”

“Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants...”

“Over the centuries, close-knit tribes have played an important part in the cohesion of Libyan society.”

“Let me say that if the political arena is your choice as you work to keep our democracy strong and our essential freedoms accessible for all, then that is what you should do, and I salute yo...”

“Teaching is very important. The nature of your personality isn't that important. Lombardi was very extraverted, very bombastic. Landry very quiet, reserved. Both were great teachers and grea...”

“Studios were just run differently. There really was a head of a studio. There were people who loved their studios. Who worked for their studios and were loaned out to other people and everyb...”

“Johnnie Cochran was such a heroic figure for getting the acquittal of O.J. Simpson, and the acquittal was such a historical event because it was the first time that I'd seen somebody who loo...”

“To maintain order after Assad's fall would require at least 500,000 troops in a never-ending occupation.”

“I'm not West Coast at all. I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Kentucky, outside of Lexington, in Winchester.”

“When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don't know if it's my low expectations for white people or what.”

“Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.”

“Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as sig...”

“Sometimes, we get mixed up when we say that profit is not important for stakeholders. Oxygen is not the reason a person lives. But it is essential to have oxygen, although it's not the only...”

“Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I...”

“There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title o...”

“So much has been written about me, and people don't know what's right and what's wrong. I'd rather let them stay confused.”

“Jah, for me, is just short for Jehovah. It's a short name for God.”

“Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.”

“My parents fled from a Cuban dictatorship in search of freedom. Growing up, I saw my parents struggle... I am here today because of them. My success is their success. Their sacrifice and per...”

“I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.”

“Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”

“When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite.”

“There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.”

“I really like you better aimless and lost among people, a little crazy, oddball, not looking like yourself. So that I don't know you at all and the nearer I get to you the more you separate...”

“My body feels like it is asking to reproduce.”

“The quickest way to detect a cult is to sniff for doublethink. The cult seeks control over its membership not by providing a coherent theological system but by providing the opposite: an uns...”

“But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.”

“Put it this way: If I had to go back to 1968 and wear the makeup that John Chambers made for the original 'Planet of the Apes' series, I think I would rather wear a unitard.”

“Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.”

“I live in the South; there are Confederate flags everywhere.”

“I love Australia. My dream would be to have a place to live there and be able to commute back and forth.”

“My dad used to do it when we were little, and I tried it when we played around in the back yard. Eventually, I got a bat and a real ball and played around to see if I could hit left-handed.”

“People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.”

“I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.”

“I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.”

“If a castle gets destroyed, you just build a new one. If you wanted me to I'd build them over and over. Let's build them together.”

“The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.”

“My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.”

“Think about your immune system as being an army, and it's fighting infection.”

“As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart to your audience...”

“Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after.”

“I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.”

“When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no lim...”

“I don't think that people generally realize what the motion picture industry has done to the American Indian, as a matter of fact, all ethnic groups. All minorities. All non-whites. People j...”

“Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.”