Every accepted public quote

“I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.”

“My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.”

“Lack of prayer is the lost paradise.”

“I don't know if I would've had the opportunity to be on 'Wizards of Waverly Place' if it weren't for my heritage. I realize everybody wants what they don't have. But at the end of the day, w...”

“We went to Denmark twice and Germany and also to the Canary Isles one year. I remember once when we were playing Dresden in Germany.”

“My top priority as Attorney General is to continue the fight against violent crime, and step it up wherever needed.”

“I personally won't have anything live in my house that can't move the car on street-sweeping day or grate carrots. Plus, I don't mind being talked to harshly. I want to be challenged by some...”

“As a general rule, most recent university graduates know far more about U.S. economic history and 'The Lord of the Flies' than about how the modern workplace functions and how to succeed in...”

“I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.”

“I grew up in a very loving but very broken family, and I suppose that's why I'm drawn to telling stories about well-intentioned people who are doing their best - but are not always successfu...”

“Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crusty little cake trimmings, ends from a brisket, collars from a salmon, scraps. But they're snack...”

“Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of hist...”

“I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.”

“Just because something is English does not necessarily mean it is good. We make the best cheddar; we make great pasties. But we can't make very good brie or baguettes - and the French can't...”

“We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.”

“I never thought I would sing or dance - ever, ever, ever. My idea was to be Laurence Olivier or Peter Lorre or some great classical actor. I thought I'd be a character actor.”

“I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.”

“He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise.”

“The thing I like about college football so much is you can affect these guys a lot more when they are 18-22, 23 years old in terms of people and having a chance to be more successful. They a...”

“I have been to a few A-list parties, but not massively. It's not my life, but it's fun dipping into it.”

“Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' W...”

“I'm a very direct person just generally. I don't use a lot of words unnecessarily. I try to get to the heart of the issue, address it and go on to the next thing.”

“I like movies where you feel like you're going into another world, and no matter how many times you watch it, you're gonna see something new in that world. That level of detail really inspir...”

“I've been involved in politics for quite some time. I've held positions, and my experiences are very deep, and I think I have the capacity, the courage, and the character to institute the ki...”

“I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.”

“A major part of being prepared is having a plan. Local calls don't always work in the immediate vicinity of a disaster, so it's important to have an out-of-town contact with whom the entire...”

“When I was 11 I was scouted by the Thames Valley under-21s. It was really daunting. I was scared for my life when I went in to bat. The first ball hit me on the leg, the second ball got me o...”

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”

“It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry bet...”

“Broadchurch' was very naturalistically shot, in many respects, whereas 'Dublin Murders' has a slightly heightened element cinematically, because there is a supernatural, ominous quality - pa...”

“Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.”

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”

“My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.”

“I always like to sing barefoot, but when I first started doing these dates with the symphonies, I of course thought I should clean up my act, being a Jewish girl from Long Island with a litt...”

“Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.”

“Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.”

“I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A...”

“Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.”

“My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor neve...”

“People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air trave...”

“I'm not a quitter.”

“In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth.”

“I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you...”

“Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.”

“The central problem in Syria is that Sunni Arabs will not be willing partners against the Islamic State unless we commit to protect them and the broader Syrian population against all enemies...”

“People bring up Willie Horton or some other political bombshell in the past, but what they're not being intellectually honest about is if we do not work on early release, if we do not rehabi...”

“Most of the music I grew up listening to was not Christian music, although I definitely had a lot of that at home, too.”

“My family is my number one priority.”