Every accepted public quote

“I just try to be the same guy each and every day and just do something when we're hitting or make a nice defensive play or run the bases. Just trying to be consistent in that way.”

“Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the e...”

“I have done nothing but open windows-God has done all the rest.”

“People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.”

“We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.”

“Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in moving mountains - if moving mountains accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will.”

“When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.”

“Practice makes an actor excel. It is like cycling and motor driving. It is an art, which can be learnt and practised.”

“Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.”

“I'm honored to be asked by Stephanie Allain - whom I've long admired - to add to the scope of my programming purview at Film Independent. I salute David Ansen for his work with the festival...”

“The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.”

“Any of us in the public eye must remember: Never, ever believe your own press, and pray to develop a hypersensitive gag reflex regarding your own importance.”

“But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.”

“I feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I...”

“Love songs are kind of like hymns if you think about it. Gospel songs are basically songs of adoration about God, or whatever you want to call Him.”

“When it comes to investments, I have to go to someone else to understand them, but then I have to make a judgment. I can't do that if I don't have a basic understanding myself.”

“If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.”

“Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook”

“Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.”

“Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.”

“To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.”

“We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.”

“So it just goes to show you that it was always the Hells Angels first. They were the originals and all other clubs try and imitate what the Hells Angels have already done.”

“The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle betwe...”

“Deathstroke,' in my view, is a family drama. It's like the 'Sopranos' with super villains.”

“Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible.”

“I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to...”

“Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.”

“If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.”

“I don't claim to be a pro gamer in any shape or form.”

“For those who would die, there is life. For those who would dream, there is reality. For those who would hope, there is knowledge. For those who would grow, there is eternity.”

“As for money - when I have it, it's great. When I don't, I go get some. I've been a dishwasher, a gardener, a cleaner.”

“Lewis Robinson's first novel, 'Water Dogs,' is stuffed with snow. Open practically any page of this book, and crystals will shake out.”

“In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves.”

“I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.”

“Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.”

“Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.”

“Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them...”

“If we can find a way to keep floodwater in reserve and to use it when it's needed, it will be a double boon.”

“Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite...”

“While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes; recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity,...”

“Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“Thing is, I don't really like free time. People are always warning me that I'm going to burn out. But the truth is, the only thing that tires me out is hearing people tell me that.”

“When I first made some comment when we launched that part of our purpose was to do stuff that has social ripples, lots of people said it was such a glib thing to say. I actually believe that...”

“How do we transform loss? ... Time's healing balm is essentially a hoax.”

“Cinema has evolved, and it is high time we stop policing it so rigorously.”

“I like crisp words like 'blimey', 'yikes', 'crap' which describe consternation, embarrassment, and sometimes wonderment without making me type so many alphabets.”