Every accepted public quote

“You don't have to go to the kings and queens of the earth - I think the Greeks and Elizabethans did this because it was a logical concept - but every human being is in enormous conflict abou...”

“I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good.”

“Unfortunately, when you're learning on the job, things can go wrong.”

“The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.”

“My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me.”

“When I was starring as Roxie Hart in 'Chicago,' I got my stiletto heel caught in my fishnet tights and fell flat on my face. It was incredibly painful and not something you can cover up.”

“And yet their reward appear not, and their labor had no fruit: for I have gone here and there through the heathen, and I see that they flow in wealth, and think not upon thy commandments.”

“Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived hi...”

“I love Roald Dahl, Sharon Olds, Nizar Qabbani, who is a poet, and Junot Diaz.”

“My advice to young people - wait until it's your turn. Just kidding, sorta.”

“I always encourage people to learn the basics and nail the basics. Take the time to customize your resume and cover letter to reflect your qualifications, your research on the specific compa...”

“I'll drink water. Sometimes tomato juice, which I like. Sometimes orange juice, which I like. I'll drink different things. But the Coke or Pepsi boosts you up a little.”

“Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.”

“On with the dance! Let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet.”

“I watched the 'Seven Samurai' a lot because I loved it growing up. I can't describe to you how powerful that was. When you're a kid, you can't watch an almost-three-hour movie, but this was...”

“Enemies are so stimulating.”

“I'm really into laces; I always accessorize with shoe laces whether I wear them as a belt, or attached to my shorts or in my hair or as a bracelet.”

“Love is the fire that warms our lives with unparalleled joy and divine hope. Love should be our walk and our talk.”

“Silence is a source of great strength.”

“My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves.”

“Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.”

“Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people a...”

“Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.”

“Hate's not functional; why are we taught it?”

“Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.”

“Prior to 'Insidious Chapter 3,' I was happy to write movies for James Wan to direct as I felt very much that I was one half of a duo. I looked at us as a team who works together and I was ha...”

“I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governments and with corporations, but in terms of imagination - my imagination is always fertile....”

“I think young people of all races are interested in justice; maybe not so much taxes and regulations, but they're interested in justice and the right to privacy on the Internet.”

“There are so many people from many different classes and ways of life who converge in one space to make a musical.”

“I like Captain America because I liked Captain America when I was younger.”

“All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated f...”

“The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own...”

“We have promised to do better, and no Republican concern should ever be enough to filibuster our own bill.”

“The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.”

“The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surroun...”

“Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration, and many are discovering that one of the greate...”

“My parents split up, and a lot of things going on in the outside world made me want to immerse myself in an alternative world.”

“What people are going to be surprised about is that Tia and I are really different. We're nothing like the characters on 'Sister, Sister.' We're kind of swapped. I was the crazy, mischievous...”

“While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive device...”

“I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.”

“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.”

“The only reason I was offered 'Punisher' was because I had made an indie film that was rated R for violence and was filled with fight scenes.”

“Priorities are the yearly goals that I'm most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals.”

“Get digital scales because, for baking, balance scales just aren't accurate enough: it's all in the weighing up.”

“After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.”

“It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.”

“You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to just...”

“I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement.”