Every accepted public quote

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

“Long-term, perpetual travel is the dream of many. But surprisingly, for such a popular desire, few people realize how accessible it is.”

“I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.”

“I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is...”

“You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.”

“I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually mo...”

“I didn't like when people said that actresses have shelf life.”

“Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.”

“People don't become obese overnight. Allowing our children to have treats in moderation - as in trick-or-treating - is one thing, but good nutrition involves discipline that must be learned...”

“Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?”

“I want everyone to remember me as just a mogul.”

“Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescue...”

“Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.”

“Analysts, scholars, business people, diplomats, and journalists involved with China spend so much time questioning one another's biases and loyalties that they have even settled on two oppos...”

“God is thus entrenched in the Flow systems as a causal belief, but an unordered one. Within Flow, this is implemented as unordered in relation with the ordered. The responsibility of first C...”

“Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.”

“It was only by luck and the blessings of God that my soldiers did not encounter an assault, that we did not run over an IED. And to dishonor our service by saying we're not worthy of being c...”

“I'm about to play an emaciated pregnant vampire, so I've stopped using as much butter as Paula Deen - just until 'Breaking Dawn' is over.”

“I don't use any of the terminology like 'left wing' and 'right wing.' I use language like 'godly' and 'holiness.'”

“I actually dealt blackjack for a summer.”

“I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, an...”

“In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart,...”

“You see a lot of talented people, but you usually don't see talented people who, behind the scenes, know how to conduct themselves on a higher level.”

“I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.”

“I had my freedom, and I had my comfortable life, but I couldn't accept the fact that the politicians were making it increasingly difficult for my kids and millions of others to achieve their...”

“Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.”

“Everybody trying to bite the style ever since we made 'Versace.' But they don't give us credit.”

“There are only two guidelines in good sex, don't do anything you don't really enjoy and find out what are your partner needs and don't balk them if you can help it.”

“It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that...”

“I'm the boogeyman used to scare South Central kids when they tell ghost stories.”

“I think we're in a disposable world and 'Stairway to Heaven' is one of the things that hasn't quite been thrown away yet.”

“Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited h...”

“I was on an army show, and in the army - especially in Korean culture - there's a very, very strict hierarchy. Obviously, you would not talk informally or disrespectfully to your commanding...”

“I am supposed to set an example to young players.”

“I wasn't raised with money, so I had to get used to having it. I think I've adjusted to it pretty well.”

“As a child, I was afraid of everything. My parents were shy, the kind of people for whom it is an ordeal to go and buy some bread or whatever.”

“What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it ha...”

“There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.”

“The less you struggle with a problem, the more it's likely to solve itself. The less time you spend frantically running around, the more productive you are likely to be.”

“If Cole and I are together, we're noticeable. Fan encounters come with the job, and you can't shy away from them.”

“When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.”

“When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.”

“We love and adore our surrogate, we speak to her and her family constantly, I'm sure our son will speak to her for the rest of his life as well.”

“Crossword puzzles, Sudoku... I'm good at all those things. It's not daily, but I'll do stuff on the airplane. I love playing chess. It's my favorite game.”

“The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everywhere and erases the basic restraints of nationality; everyone is united by this common languag...”

“When I'm introduced at invited lectures at other universities, the students place a Bobo doll by the lectern. From time to time, I have been asked to autograph one. The Bobo doll has achieve...”

“For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.”

“Ultimately, I think, as humans, we all care deeply about our life's legacy, and contemplating our own mortality is the only real way to approach that question of legacy honestly.”