Every accepted public quote

“Imagine you're doing your thing, and somebody comes up to you and just kills your mojo. Just tell them, 'No flex zone!'”

“We've been in the business of regional banking, and we understand what it is to make loans, and that's the engine of growth to small and medium sized business.”

“Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.”

“There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn't resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring a...”

“One of the problems with episodic television of any color is that everything has got to be okay at the end of the episode so it can start again next week.”

“Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.”

“I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it'...”

“Senator McCarthy's reckless and unfounded attempt to impugn my loyalty is just one more example of his typical tactic of attempting to tie up to Communism anyone who disagrees with him.”

“I do a lot of stairs, a lot of planks, a lot of squats, a lot of treadmill, a lot of screaming - and I do it four times a week.”

“My spiked hair goes back about 15 years ago. I had long, curly rocker hair then. The woman who cuts my hair thought I needed a new style, so I let her surprise me. I flipped when I first saw...”

“The first cellular systems didn't become commercially available until 1983. Most of the phones before then were in fact car phones.”

“What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends, allies, around the world.”

“Gamers are some of the toughest people to please. They have extreme requirements. They want everything.”

“Tyler Perry's 'Madea Goes to Jail!' Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I've ever done in my career, that's the only thing that's perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That...”

“I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance wh...”

“I'd like to say to all my fans out there, thanks for the support. And to all my doubters, thank you very much because you guys have also pushed me.”

“I don't know Greg Schiano personally. But what I do know is Bill Belichick has vouched for him. OK? Urban Meyer has vouched for him. He's coached the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a professional org...”

“I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the tho...”

“There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains on...”

“There are definitely some set topics I go onstage with and want to talk about, but there's also an element of improvisation and spontaneity that I like to bring to each performance and talk...”

“Now that Sacramento is building an arena downtown, they're the only one not in an urban core. The only one. It's really not good business. It's nothing against Auburn Hills, Oakland County o...”

“Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fath...”

“The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It's not, I'm pretty sure, actually true, bu...”

“The nature reveals itself how Great and Perfect God You are. You are bright as the sunrise and more beautiful than the sunset. Unto You all the Glory will be. You are God of creation and Lor...”

“Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.”

“My problem is that I'm negative - I come from Romania. Romanians are a little bit negative in thinking. Everyone knows that. That's normal here.”

“Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spe...”

“I had racially prejudiced comments directed at me on different blogs. People think that just because you're in the spotlight, you're fair game. It's hard, and I don't think you're ready at a...”

“I'm an activist. I'm a proud activist. So I want to be someone who is pro-black and pro-Africa and still be somebody that has positive influence.”

“I felt Nigeria didn't have to succumb to the image of being a corrupt country; we didn't have to let the economy stagnate.”

“Life is short, and nobody knows what's around the corner, but I'm up for lots of new challenges.”

“I'm very good at delegating - people work much better when they have a real sense of responsibility. But at the same time, I don't like surprises. I don't pore over every shoot, but I do lik...”

“Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?”

“One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it as if it were literal.”

“The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.”

“Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express w...”

“In the summer of 1963, my second with 'Sports Illustrated,' Jerry Tax, the basketball editor, got the Celtics' Frank Ramsey, the NBA's first famous sixth man, to do a piece for the magazine...”

“I don't listen to a ton of rock music.”

“In my experience, there are only two valid reasons to take a company public: access to growth capital and investor fatigue.”

“Too often, there are complaints in the British papers about the BBC. It's too left wing, too right wing, too pro-Brexit, too anti, and so on. It's only when you go abroad and try to find out...”

“I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about i...”

“Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.”

“There are three stages of an actor's career: Young, Old, and 'You look good!'”

“Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest with...”

“I am absolutely certain that my unlawful detention by the Thai authorities was motivated by their fear of youth movements around the world.”

“The Holiday Inn Express brand is known for great service, comfortable beds, all-you-can-eat ice from machines at every hotel, so I was pretty excited when they asked me to be a part of their...”

“Customs, traditions, laws should be flexible, within good reason, if that is what it takes to make our democracy work.”

“My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.”