Every accepted public quote

“The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing, let alone the success or failure that book may have after it is written...”

“As an actor, you tend to live in a really small world, which is not very healthy. It is enriching to go to new places, meet different people know and learn about things which you didn't know...”

“There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here's what some new studies...”

“You have to have courage to be obedient to God.”

“How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself!”

“Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.”

“It just so happens that my body type and my lifestyle gives me a preclusion for high blood sugars.”

“My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.”

“I would say 90 percent of the stuff we do is technical anyway. If you look at a two-hour training day, 12 minutes are probably spent running or gaining fitness.”

“Predictability can eventually be defended.”

“Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.”

“Every time I go to Africa, I feel like I hit true north. There is a depth of feeling that I have for the continent, in the richness of the people, the suffering , but also the transcendent j...”

“If you compare Everest photographs in 1953 with its current state, things are melting. I imagine if I were a golfer in Indiana, I'd be hard-pressed to believe in climate change because nothi...”

“I cherish my time at Ole Miss. I cherish those four years.”

“Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.”

“I've got a Facebook page, but I've never put anything on it. I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because, otherwise, someon...”

“A young girl reached out to me to be her mentor one day, which I didn't really know anything about. What I did remember was what it was to be alone as an African-American dancer in the balle...”

“Get to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.”

“This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as...”

“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.”

“The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.”

“Sometimes in entertainment, when people have done the Academy Awards - like, for example, in 'The Bodyguard' - I just didn't believe it; it didn't feel authentic.”

“My ambition is to contribute my quota to the overall success of the team.”

“Every artist is an artist, and every heartbeat is a heartbeat.”

“I like books that are fat and full.”

“When I applied to law school, I wrote on my application that I wanted to do two things. One was to solve antitrust law's irregularities and problems, and the second was to solve the Arab-Isr...”

“What we ought to know we never be taught in the classroom.”

“I still don't know what Episcopalian means.”

“He lifted weights, he rode the bike; he kept himself going before and after games, as well as practices. He always kept himself in top shape and was very determined. You put a relentless Den...”

“My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls.”

“I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Li...”

“The bottom line is, don't be a lifer. Get in, get a business, get five years of what you can, and get out. What happens is they start listening to the promoters, 'You'll get the next main ev...”

“I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.”

“If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!”

“I truly have a village supporting me. My son has godmothers, godfathers, grandparents and so many others in his life who love him as much as I do. They're there for both of us. I may not hav...”

“People always say time heals. Time doesn't necessarily heal anything. It allows you to manage things. There are occasions where you feel the pain as if it just happened, but you know that it...”

“God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”

“The truth is not good or bad, it is just the truth.”

“When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside do...”

“I married beneath me - all women do.”

“For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer that ever brooded in a lavender robe and a mellowed briar in his teeth,...”

“I like to go to a Korean salon.”

“The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact...”

“I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.”

“God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eter...”

“I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original...”

“Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.”

“Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission.”