Every accepted public quote

“Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.”

“Drake went through my exhibition. I did meet him in Los Angeles, and he was in the spaces that I did do there, and has some images from that.”

“We had to play both ways on the field, so I was offensive center and defensive end.”

“My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.”

“The Sun always rises. Unless, you're on a space station, I guess...”

“It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.”

“Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.”

“Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis...”

“Each time you see a Western movie, it's a good reflection of where things are in the world at that time. It's probably one of the purest forms of cinema that really tells you where the world...”

“As an athlete you want to be able to choose something that you haven't already achieved. Is it different distances, or do you come back and defend your titles? It depends what your coach say...”

“I try to do the fancy things out there by going with both hands, making crossover moves, and having a certain creativity and flair to my game.”

“The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.”

“My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and...”

“A Trump presidency will turn the economy around and restore the great American tradition of giving each new generation hope for brighter opportunities than those of the generation that came...”

“Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.”

“Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be...”

“In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.”

“I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.”

“I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.”

“I think of our readers as young, conscious people. We can't underestimate how far-reaching our content is, especially these days.”

“I love to do things that kind of mess with the movie formula that you can always find the right place to park; you've always got a phone signal. And I think audiences really respond to the l...”

“I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.”

“I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.”

“It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimis...”

“The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should n...”

“It might be a shock to see me, but that's no reason for people to act crazy, and it doesn't give them license to chase me down the street.”

“I always wanted to be a hairdresser.”

“In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.”

“I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.”

“I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.”

“My first significant break was when I was 15, going on 16, and my cousin Courtney 'Bear' Sills told me you can make a career out of writing songs. He was the one who put me in with 112. The...”

“One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two com...”

“We are determined to build a society defined by decency and integrity that does not tolerate the plunder of public resources nor the theft by corporate criminals of the hard-earned savings o...”

“I remember the first time I spoke to an editor. I thought I'd be sick, I was so nervous. The first time I spoke to a large group at a conference, I had the jitters for days beforehand.”

“Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.”

“when we look up, it widens our horizons. we see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries....”

“I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally.”

“We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.”

“I go to St. Matthews in Pacific Palisades, an Episcopal Church.”

“Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars.”

“Happiness is true wealth, love is true riches.”

“A lot of people think I came out of nowhere. When you start as a songwriter, nobody knows who you are. I met the guy who wrote 'Yeah' by Usher, which was a huge smash, and nobody knew who he...”

“I first met Bev Shea while in Chicago when he was on Moody Radio. As a young man starting my ministry, I asked Bev if he would join me. He said yes, and for over 60 years we had the privileg...”

“I feel I don't get credit enough for it, the pioneering I did in comedy.”

“In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.”

“I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.”

“Scorpions like holes. We had to put our arms in the holes to dig out the smelting residues. We always performed critter checks before an excavation, but one morning, I put an arm in and felt...”

“Dignity, high station, or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age...”