Every accepted public quote

“Hoover's Music Store in Springfield, Missouri - I would listen to records there for hours.”

“In Japan, I live in a little neighborhood in the middle of nowhere. I don't have a bicycle or a car or anything, so my only movement is within the boundaries of my feet. I feel there's a nee...”

“My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys lau...”

“In my country, Gabon, entry into the digital age, which is the future, can be seen in numerous sectors - from telecommunications to security, finance, and hospitality.”

“The more I thought to myself, 'Are my thoughts right, am I being obedient enough?' the worse it was... one of the most painful things you can experience in life is not so much physical pain,...”

“From what I've read, everyone has a claim on Merlin. Was he Scottish, Welsh, English or even French? All these countries have got a big claim on him and Camelot. That's why the Arthurian leg...”

“Inarritu's own nomination for Best Director for 'Babel' was the first such honor for a Mexican director.”

“The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.”

“If you really want to eat, keep climbing. The fruits are on the top of the tree. Stretch your hands and keep stretching them. Success is on the top, keep going.”

“There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.”

“I'm very square and proud of it. The flag stays on the porch here.”

“The realization that baryonic matter is only a trace component of the universe revealed our understanding of the cosmos as shockingly incomplete and was one of the milestones that ushered in...”

“I used to go out wearing any old rubbish, no make-up, nothing, but since mobile phones, that has all had to stop. People do come up to you so often and say hello, or want a photograph, and I...”

“James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock press has as much to do with old fashioned rags-to-riches stories as does...”

“'My Fair Godmother's' movie rights sold to the producer who did 'Freaky Friday,' 'Princess Diaries,' and one of my favorite movies - 'Sky High.'”

“I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me on stage in front of 500 people at a wedding. I'd never done karaoke before.”

“I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins, and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name with somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.”

“Avocados have a creamy texture, making them a healthier replacement for ingredients like butter and mayo in recipes, though they do contain a surprisingly large amount of fat - a whopping 30...”

“I was very active in the peace movement, still am.”

“True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habit...”

“Just follow your dreams and be patient.”

“I think he tries to be nice. But he has absolutely zero self-awareness. None. Zip. So we see the public Donald Trump, the candidate, as being different than the in-person Donald Trump.”

“It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice.”

“You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on nature's own hues and tints.”

“In terms of my Indianness, I try not to rely on it nor deny it. When it comes up organically in my writing, we can address it. About five years ago, we wrote this episode of 'The Office,' ca...”

“The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.”

“The President of the Church will not lead the people of the Church astray. It will never happen.”

“Fans, and people in general, look to people to take certain things on, and I'm a guy you can take at face value. I speak my mind.”

“I drove an 18-wheeler semi-truck, a big rig. I liked it actually.”

“Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.”

“We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter. ... It's the way friends make love to one another.”

“We all have a constitutional right to be safe in our homes and our communities.”

“I've been a follower of Arsenal Football Club since I was ten years old.”

“I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.”

“Being born gay, black, and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay black female is.”

“People can be too harsh, especially with social media. It brings a person down.”

“Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.”

“I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.”

“When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I...”

“My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.”

“We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging and complete. It was not or nor shall be different since it is now, a...”

“Most comedies are really hard to write, or to watch, because you kind of generally know what's coming.”

“We're trending towards the holodeck. Eventually we'll have a system that's indistinguishable from reality.”

“By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and ther...”

“There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.”

“There's all these proofs that go on of identity, of records, and they're quite non-digital. The blockchain innovation really allows us to take everything where there's record keeping, everyt...”

“I'll be in Los Angeles for two weeks and I'll have a laugh, get battered and have a buzz, but at the end of the day, I'll go home. It's just me earning a few more stories to tell everyone at...”

“I do see women voters shifting to the Republican Party and doing so significantly. And the issue that's doing this is the fear the federal government will prevail in making the Affordable He...”