Every accepted public quote

“Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.”

“The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.”

“However imperfectly, subsidies for the poor do actually reduce hunger, ease suffering and create opportunity, while subsidies for the rich result in more private jets and yachts. Would we ra...”

“In the 17th century, Barbados was regarded in London as 'the brightest jewel in the English crown'.”

“Everybody thought I was crazy. They thought I should take the money and run. But there was just something special about being a senior at Chapel Hill. I just couldn't leave.”

“Women don't have halos built in.”

“I do feel there is a very rabid young base for 'Black Mirror' that will very much identify with the daughter character because of the invasiveness they feel with their parents trying to cont...”

“We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”

“May be its mine bad-luck Or yours not to get me But I still have hope Of being yours”

“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.”

“I never wanted to be a brand director. I didn't want that kind of stamp. I wanted to be more like Pacino or Dustin Hoffman or Meryl Streep or De Niro - you know, a chameleon as a storyteller...”

“I love being around my friends and my family and spending time with my husband. I like being normal and recharging my batteries, and I feel like I have the coolest job in the world where I g...”

“British fans are the best, and we are seeing that. They love the sport of boxing. They follow, they travel, they love their fighters. They will go anywhere in the world to support you. They...”

“Yes, I'm 68, but when I was a boy I was too poor to smoke, so knock off ten years. That makes me 58. And since I never developed the drinking habit, you can knock off ten more years. So I'm...”

“I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.”

“As long as 'Pearl Harbor' stays in the past, it's perfect; when it wretchedly changes gears in the late going, it becomes the wrong kind of same old story: Hollywood stupidity and callowness...”

“As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very...”

“When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.”

“The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.”

“When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair...”

“Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do.”

“I was a little boy singing sad songs, about 9 or 10 years old in the woods. I listened to my voice coming back to me. It was as high as you could go. I dreamed of being famous as a singer wh...”

“'Bhoot' is a hold-on-to-your-seats horror film, while 'Darna Manaa Hai' is a hold-on-to-your-popcorn horror film.”

“Suicide is not a remedy.”

“I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the record player and I would run around the house screaming, but I haven't been that hip since.”

“When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.”

“Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith....Power is not to be crossed; one must respect and obey. Power means strength, whereas love is a hu...”

“Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!”

“War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants.”

“Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.”

“I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.”

“I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call th...”

“It's great concentrating so hard you feel your brain will explode.”

“That's what 'Star Trek' was: We don't know how to make an ideal society, but we're going to portray that, and then we're going to work backward. I think that's why science fiction - despite...”

“I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.”

“It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.”

“I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.”

“There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.”

“My mom always does this thing where, the closer I get to home, the more she calls. 'Hey, listen, how's your plane? Did you land? Are you landing? Sweetie. Listen. We want to... ' The anxiety...”

“After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset...”

“The most fulfilling love life comes from a love of life and a life of love.”

“You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be s...”

“When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are blurry.”

“I'm definitely trying to make songs that people can sing along to and remember. If you can recognize a chorus and leave with it in your head, it's usually a good sign. But then with the vers...”

“Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of di...”

“I watched a ton of films growing up, but in a haphazard way. There was nothing scholarly or focused about it.”

“It's not new: In the '70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on 'All in the Family,' but it was all in Carroll O'Connor's performance. You saw lack of intelligence, and you laughed.”

“We also have to be particularly wary of imaginative thought processes for we can very easily create things and ideas in our minds that are outright impossible or highly improbable to be mani...”