Every accepted public quote

“To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.”

“You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don't, and it's a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just...”

“I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.”

“We depend on the critics to give us a glimpse of what happened. Bernard Shaw championed Ibsen, who got the most terrible notices for his plays. Kenneth Tynan championed young writers, and as...”

“We couldn't get enough Jeremy Lin material in the NBA store fast enough. And when we did, it was just gone in minutes.”

“laughing is good. so long as you are not insulting anyone.”

“Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.”

“The families in positions of great financial power obsessively interbreed with each other. But I'm not talking about one Earth race, Jewish or non-Jewish. I'm talking about a genetic network...”

“Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the l...”

“Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.”

“Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing: it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustrations that it creates.”

“If you've never seen people taking the pledge of allegiance for the first time as U.S. Citizens, it will move you: a room full of people who can really appreciate what I was lucky enough to...”

“My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.”

“Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.”

“Sergey Brin has said to me, like, 10 times now, 'Why do you bother doing books? Why don't you just put all this stuff on the Internet?' It's because 10 years from now, my book will still be...”

“I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.”

“When someone you love makes compassion, kindness, forgiveness, respect and God an option, you can be sure they have made you an option, as well.”

“I found out that superstars Winkler and William Shatner are real people, and I was so thankful for that.”

“A child's mind is its living room; it's going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.”

“Courage is soldiers fighting on the front line, or people living on the bread line.”

“People see your life on social media, and they say, 'Oh my gosh, it's perfect,' and I'm like, 'No, every day, it's not even just a struggle: it's something new, and it's a new challenge to m...”

“I'm not a media personality, I'm an actress. I want to protect that thing: the suspension of disbelief. The rest of it is just distraction.”

“Her mother had told her once that the nicest thing you can do for someone is be happy to see them, and Helen thought about that now, as she felt herself smile involuntarily.”

“We obviously want to produce things that people want. We are going to continue to do that in an environmentally responsible way, while still being aware of the physical, scientific, and prac...”

“The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.”

“America does not always need to be the world's bodyguard.”

“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”

“I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy....”

“Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.”

“Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.”

“The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.”

“'Flashpoint' is a showcase to demonstrate why the Flash is a major character, just like how we've done with Green Lantern. It's important that the Flash can hold his own.”

“Set aside a half hour or an hour to rethink the way you make decisions, the habits you have, the biases you may have. And if you think of things, if you come with a little bit of a blank sla...”

“In the short run, using militias might be the quickest and easiest way to improve order on Iraq's streets and uproot the terrorists and guerrillas who routinely attack American troops and ci...”

“Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the phenomena.”

“I like to rattle cages.”

“Here's the problem: I don't like who I've become when my iPhone is within reach. I find myself checking e-mails and responding to texts throughout the day with some kind of Pavlovian ferocit...”

“Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.”

“Women's bodies have always been used as a spectacle and objectified.”

“It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.”

“Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward and a base man. Are you anxious that your faith be professed by coward...”

“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.”

“The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand...”

“I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an ast...”

“You wouldn't believe how many people have told me that I need to fix my teeth or that I need to restructure my jawline.”

“In rock n' roll, we don't sell records at all like we used to. Yet the artist still has to pay to make records. So you've just got to get out on tour and be smarter about your merchandising.”

“Apologies are great, but they don't really change anything. You know what does? Action.”

“I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you.”