Every accepted public quote

“He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.”

“The CVC and CAG are independent but merely recommendatory. The government often ignores their advice.”

“I always tell my mom that if she would have just bought me a Barbie when I was little, I would have gone into real estate.”

“The inspiration of my drag is the history of drag, the long tradition of drag queens being at the forefront of queer activism. That informs my drag style, and in a sense, that is the directi...”

“The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.”

“Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.”

“Most writing staffs have this crazy high turnover, and then everyone's really miserable, and I don't understand that. I don't know why you don't grow people to then be able to take over as y...”

“Sometimes a manager will assess the other team through the warm-up and try to get an inkling as to what way they are going to be playing.”

“It's high time subjects like sex, and everything that it includes, are normalised.”

“Vanity is but the surface.”

“Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.”

“Books remember all the things you cannot contain.”

“Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' t...”

“Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.”

“Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.”

“I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and think like a filmmaker as I'm buzzing about the world and then see an opportunity to make a fil...”

“We are extremely concerned that early voting totals may have been leaked in Bladen County as reported by 'The Charlotte Observer.' This action by election officials would be a fundamental vi...”

“That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate - that was the one cardinal sin in our community.”

“I don't miss public school.”

“my only complaints are two: that I didn't make myself ready for you sooner in life, that I can't give you better, Love you more.”

“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.”

“Perspective heals us, perspective empowers us, and if we let it, perspective will make us wiser. We are often built by the same things we thought were destroying us.”

“Wearing a tuxedo isn't as simple as it sounds. I've been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It's surprisingly easy to go off the rails.”

“Is anyone anywhere happy?”

“Nobody has a bigger cult than Warren Buffett.”

“I dress like a bum all the time. I'm a pretty casual fella.”

“I am not someone who has hobbies. I have tried knitting, and I can't figure it out.”

“There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set...”

“Women are smarter by basic instinct and by what we have to do to multitask at home and at work. My mother did that 50 years ago, but it wasn't called multitasking or stress back then. She ha...”

“Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.”

“I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value.”

“There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach.”

“Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.”

“A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That's a whole, thrilling new form that I really enjoy. They are Tolstoy-an in their...”

“Almost all of my business flights are commercial, not private.”

“When I made 'Lil Boat,' my first mixtape, I didn't have a drop date, a due date. I didn't have critics rating on it; I was just making it. And then when I finished it, I dropped it at my own...”

“I will begin first to search out this right by that magna charta, that great and faithful charter which was made to Abraham, the father of the faithful, in the name of all his seed.”

“I still have a sweet tooth, so I bake a lot, but I'd much rather have one of my sweet potato brownies than a processed chocolate bar.”

“When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Every...”

“Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.”

“Anything that I love, I love to the extreme. I'm obsessive. If it's 'Star Wars,' if it's 'Transformers,' if it's the Flyers, I geek out.”

“Love scenes are extremely difficult. You're always within a millimeter of sentimentality and 'yuck.'”

“The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.”

“If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft...”

“[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth. We consider the time has come for that crutch to be...”

“L.A. kills people.' Jacaranda said. 'You're lucky you're leaving. You'll be able to write.' She looked paler, going through another depression, smoking in bed in her lilac room. The walls we...”

“Choice of attention ... is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.”

“I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ab...”