Every accepted public quote

“Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.”

“I think it's scandalous that we haven't done more to cure cancer.”

“It is the road you take that decides your destiny and not your destiny that decides the road you take.”

“The discipline of joy is about survival. You make your own joy- this is the work my mother taught me. Little factory, little mine of reminders- find, make, joy to sustain multiple life- time...”

“My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.”

“I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects. When I say 'involved,' I mean I always bring artists in at the beginnin...”

“We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.”

“I know guys in the league say, 'Oh yeah, I love X, Y, Z city.' But man, I genuinely love Utah.”

“Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.”

“Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.”

“For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.”

“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.”

“I'm deathly afraid of rats.”

“The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.”

“It's fun to peek into other people's worlds and see how they go about doing things.”

“Motives and purposes are in the brain and heart of man. Consequences are in the world of fact.”

“I can't apply $3 billion in capital to the tech industry. It wouldn't work. But in infrastructure, education, I can make a real difference. I can change someone's life, for the better, perma...”

“Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad...”

“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.”

“'Modern Warfare,' 'Black Ops,' these are all the next level of video games. The people are more detailed, the fighting is more exact, and I can't speak for every gamer out there, but I know...”

“I have three lovely children. They are beautiful, talented, and kind-hearted. I'm most proud of them. I love them so much that I will never want to burden them with a large amount of inherit...”

“Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.”

“The 19th-century pure capitalist model of society was a pyramid, concentrations of enormous wealth in a small group at the top, a not very big middle-class in the middle, and an enormous per...”

“Your start time is based on the things that hold you back.”

“The United States government approaches patient choice in medication as Singapore does free speech: its pronouncements sound reasonable and tolerant until you threaten its prerogatives.”

“There was a substantial vinyl collection in my home, and my mom played piano. We, the children, were enrolled in piano lessons very early on.”

“I was never a fanatical movie person.”

“My first year making music was very experimental. I was trying to find my sound. My second year, I was more in my element. I knew what type of production I wanted to go over and the topics I...”

“The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.”

“Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.”

“I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'”

“I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.”

“Approaching my second novel was, admittedly, a bit of a struggle. But having an amazing team at Atheneum Books, especially my very patient, brilliant editor Namrata Tripathi, took a stressfu...”

“Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.”

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”

“I can bend my wrist down to my forearm. I can wrench my fingers backward until they rest on my hand. A hitchhiker's thumb might arc into a 90-degree angle; mine will go to 135.”

“Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.”

“In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you work one day to make a story that's an hour and a half. So you can see the differenc...”

“I have an intense dislike of doctrines, because you will always end up eating your words.”

“Few of us boggle - though we should - at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with similar panache, or that Leonard Bernstein and Benjamin Britten were equally adept as comp...”

“When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.”

“We were all working for 400 dollars a week at the Public Theater and sharing a space downstairs together, so we grew to love each other. That dynamic for me as an original company member is...”

“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.”

“I can't believe this is happening to me. The weirdest thing is it was just a dream, and now it's actually real. It's hard to believe sometimes.”

“I've always felt so grateful that I dropped out of school, that I never had to do a thesis. I wouldn't know how to organise and structure myself to film so that B follows A and C follows B.”

“My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.”

“On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole.”

“Sometimes you go into Nando's, and you want to tuck into the chicken wings with your fingers, but you know someone is watching you, so you don't. I'm sat there thinking, 'If these chicken wi...”