Every accepted public quote

“My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five...”

“And if love be madness, may I never find sanity again.”

“Put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other.”

“I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.”

“Golf is a good preoccupation, but as the meaning of life ... it lacks a few things.”

“I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands. He and his brothers had been shepherds there, cattle and sheep, back in t...”

“The 2009 stimulus law got the ball rolling, allowing the agency to reduce and eliminate fees and raise loan guarantees to 90 percent of the total. I knew that we had the opportunity to use S...”

“To build a great business, you have to do something hard just to be able to withstand all the competition that will later come your way.”

“I prefer to be hunted compared to the other way around... I don't know how you say it.”

“I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I'm an old-fashioned mama's boy.”

“There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.”

“I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.”

“A soul on fire brought nothing good, but only misery and pain for the bearer”

“You're out there on a high wire without a net, and that's the way actors operate. They have to be fearless about how they work and they have to create a life for the audience in 90 minutes a...”

“Complex life was merely the recent froth over a great vat of prokaryotes feeding and dividing and dying.”

“What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax...”

“We physicists don't like to admit it, but some of us are closet science fiction fans. We hate to admit it because it sounds undignified. But when we were children, that's when we got interes...”

“Celebs most likely pay someone to do their makeup for events, shows, red carpets, etc. My mind is blown sometimes when I see some of the horrendous contour or the uneven foundation.”

“I think that there's always a time to be tongue-in-cheek, and there's always time for humor, but there's a time to be serious and a time for emotional content.”

“I never doubted that if I applied myself and tried to learn that I would good at it. I've had a lot of lucky turns, no doubt. But it's actually been a fairly direct line from control-freak,...”

“In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada.”

“An awful lot has been written about my temper.”

“You can't just let nature run wild.”

“Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable.”

“What you leave should be bigger than you ever were.”

“We have so many male superstars, but there are just a few female actors who have attained that status. It is not only because of the industry; it's in the society.”

“The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece...”

“I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.”

“Civil engineers build bridges. Electrical engineers, power grids. Software engineers, apps. From the engineers who created the Great Pyramids to the engineers who are designing and developin...”

“When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face...”

“I'm tolerant of all religions... I don't care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.”

“Yes, there's a higher rate of people living below the poverty line who aren't vaccinated. But it's much rarer for that to be a product of choice than a product of circumstance.”

“Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.”

“In the '90s, there was always this continuous pitting of women against each other in the media, trying to make them battle it out.”

“The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.”

“You can talk yourself into a good emotional state. I stop for a second, take a deep breath, and think about something that's beautiful. A beautiful thought for me is cutting the umbilical co...”

“If I had gotten the parts in 'Scream' or 'I Know What You Did Last Summer,' I would not have been very good in them, and I would've squandered whatever success I had gotten because I wasn't...”

“I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.”

“I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I l...”

“My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and mere...”

“After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.”

“We typically sell a catheter lab to a hospital, and it sits there for the next 10 years, and we don't visit the cardiologist on a daily basis. Volcano have a disposable business. They are in...”

“I'm definitely a people pleaser. I like people to be happy around me and be comfortable. I go out of my way, sometimes to a fault, to make sure everyone is okay.”

“I used to always be in Atlanta, chilling. I didn't really have as much to do. So I would gamble as a hobby. Now I'd rather go into the studio and try to make me a hit.”

“After reading and studying and getting in touch with the amount of information that I had while I was researching to play Pablo, it just reinforced the idea that I had that the war on drugs...”

“There's something fun about the road because there's no 9 to 5. But I do find myself making the effort to take some time off. As much as I don't want to, I have to. I need to reset. I love w...”

“The world is awaiting your gift - all you have to do is show up with the right intention!”

“I trained at Juilliard so that I could do all kinds of genres, so that's what I'm trained to do.”