Every accepted public quote

“I have a simple plan to solve the economic crisis. Give every American a $100 credit to the dog track of their choice. I have found the puppies to be a reliable source of income with a consi...”

“A lot of my fans, and a lot of country music fans, they still wear boots.”

“Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of...”

“My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.”

“Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.”

“The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterp...”

“I like to train the body from as many different angles as possible to use every modality available to do it.”

“No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.”

“Having is the power that attracts wealth. It easily enables you to get more water in your glass even with the same amount of effort. And you have full control over all this with your own fee...”

“Even at that time the hope of leaving behind messages in bottles on the flood of barbarism bursting on Europe was an amiable illusion: the desperate letters stuck in the mud of the spirit of...”

“When sequencing an album, you kind of have to look at it like you're making a movie with different acts, and you have ebb and flow, peaks and valleys. You want it to feel like a journey or a...”

“I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to conce...”

“When we first started 'The Big Bang Theory,' I would get incredibly nervous because it's such a big show and I was just out of graduate school. I'd come in and have this huge responsibility...”

“Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Al Pacino, Russell Crowe - these leading men. These are the ones I grew up with. And Hugh Jackman. I love everything that these guys are doing. It's kind of been my mis...”

“Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.”

“The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.”

“What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfacti...”

“Suits change a lot - the wide lapel thing, the fashion trends, the trousers change.”

“Having kids has been a turning point in my life because when I was still single, all I wanted was to impress beautiful girls.”

“The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has moved on.”

“Most raves used to end by getting CS gassed. It wouldn't be like: 'Last orders! We've gotta go!' It'd be: 'Sigh, it's been CS gassed, we've gotta leave.'”

“The challenge for corporations, if offices were to become obsolete, is twofold. How will they be able to retain their distinct cultures? And how will they be able to ensure that all employee...”

“For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.”

“As a striker, what you got used to on a daily basis, it is to be applauded when you score goals. When the opposite happens, it's difficult.”

“Women get into a relationship hoping a man will change, and he never does; men get into a relationship hoping the woman don't change, but she always does. Men want their partners to be consi...”

“So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.”

“I have had to tell my son, my parents, my friends that I used steroids. It's been very hard. It's been very difficult.”

“It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.”

“What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.”

“My father is a very hardworking guy, and that's his focus in life, so I got a lot of the paternal attention that a boy wants and needs from my grandfather.”

“I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.”

“People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.”

“I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.”

“Fear not for the world for it will survive on; it is the peoples I worry for and their tendencies to destroy themselves, each other, and the worlds in which they reside; this destructive men...”

“The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is.”

“We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.”

“A family business in cinema is not necessarily creative. It is generally about prolonging your family fortune.”

“A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.”

“Ensuring that we help prepare all kids for life, college, and work in our knowledge-based economy will require a collaborative, sustained effort from all stakeholders - from the president an...”

“There's just a certain amount of grandeur and total squalor we exist in as songwriters because it's a crazy job for crazy people.”

“To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really hand...”

“Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.”

“I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English t...”

“The mustache represented the old John; I didn't want to be that guy anymore, so I shaved it off. It was ritualistic in a way.”

“When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the c...”

“In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.”

“When I think about Edmonton, Silver Street and Pymmes Park, the old people whose faces are so unhappy, it pushes me to be better. I want to be better to help places like this.”

“I think that I don't panic as much as the folks on the left or the right do. I don't have that sense of panic.”