Every accepted public quote

“After divorcing, I left South Africa to live in Toronto. They were tough years. On my own with three young children and no income. I'd cry when they spilt milk because I didn't have the mone...”

“The inspiration for our vocal harmonies was sort of Appalachian. It's sort of at weird intervals, and it almost has an Appalachian kind of feel to it. The harmonies were really spontaneous....”

“I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.”

“Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.”

“I think my versatility is a big strength. I don't think anybody can guard me, just because I'm 6'10 and can dribble and play point. If I have a little guy on me, I take him to the post. For...”

“It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real free...”

“I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.”

“I have been blessed with a bunch of great kids, grandchildren, and daughters-in-law. It's been a great life. I know I am probably in the fourth quarter, but I am hoping for triple overtime.”

“It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a...”

“No matter how bad things get in life, no matter how many times things change, hang onto your ability to dream. Those dreams may well take you further than you could have ever believed.”

“In a capitalistic society, success is determined by whether you can pay the bills.”

“We have to serve God or guarantee the safety of the Jews. And this can be done by them accepting the Palestinians, recognizing the Palestinians, accepting that fact that they should live wit...”

“Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something... I don't know!”

“The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pri...”

“During the Umbrella Movement, the police force wasn't in control, and the police ignored the law and tried to use extreme force to hurt people.”

“As a teenager, I was in the Carlisle schoolboy scheme and while I was excited to join at first, I look back on it as a tough few years.”

“When I first met you, that's what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought, I'm going to love this person because even the sky looks different.”

“Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.”

“I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.”

“If I'm going to be honest about it, I think men get to do this sort of thing all the time. You look at countless performances by great male actors who get to play the whole gamut of human em...”

“More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger.”

“America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so...”

“Storytelling is about exploring the nuances of life, the anguish within beauty and the wisdom within pain. When we hold our stories inside, they weigh us down. When we release them, we find...”

“Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.”

“In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.”

“I was raised by my aunt and we bonded over the eight-o-clock movie on TV. We'd watch everything from James Cagney in 'White Heat' to Lon Chaney in 'The Wolf Man' and every Bogart movie.”

“I'm really excited about producing my first feature, 'Boone the Bounty Hunter.' Boone is a bounty hunter that does parkour to catch skips.”

“Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?”

“Land degradation, rising sea levels, famine, and conflict will continue to drive people from their homes and towards cities, with megacities like Mexico City and Lagos becoming increasingly...”

“If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.”

“Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain...”

“Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.”

“After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 - 2005), who in his book 'Relativity and Common Sense' says: ... The surprising thing, surely, is that molecules i...”

“My dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had grown too tall, and had no muscle tone left. I tried a ballet class and couldn't even do a p...”

“In the '90s, comedy was at a very low point, but these days, you've got people like Hannibal Burress, Ron Funches, Maria Bamford - people who can play any club, anywhere.”

“I think we should have a universal, a shared cultural or societal goal, of universal health insurance coverage. That's completely different from saying the government can solve all of those...”

“Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.”

“I wanted to be a hero, then I wanted to be an actor. But always I wanted to be respected as a good human being.”

“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.”

“Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.”

“You have had a dream for so many years. Let today be the day you make a plan for it. Just think about how much more likely you are to hit your target when you finally aim at it.”

“I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.”

“It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.”

“There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.”

“Our thoughts are powerful enough to attract into our lives, whatever truth or lie, good or evil, we passionately nurture in the corners of our hearts.”

“We're really willing to see more and more U.S. entrepreneurs conducting investments in Turkey. I'm optimistic for the future.”

“On 'Metallica,' I recorded six or seven different guitar solos for almost every song, took the best aspects of each solo, mapped out a master solo and made a composite. Then I learned how to...”

“That's my sense of how crime works: that it's not any kind of calculated evil driven by the devil, but just control disintegrating.”