Every accepted public quote

“Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner have the exact same eyes.”

“He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances.”

“For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.”

“I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.”

“In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.”

“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”

“I think people assume I only do light things because of the movies that are like 'Hairspray' and 'John Tucker Must Die.' But I think it's all just based on material that I really like and th...”

“Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.”

“I don't mean to sound like a Pollyanna, but for me, New York is the ideal because of the diversity here. 'Billy on the Street' is really informed by that.”

“All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.”

“All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is to think or what one is to do. Every prescribed th...”

“It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is an...”

“What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.”

“Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood b...”

“Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.”

“The only ultimate power you have as a human being is over your choice to live or die. Everything else is chaos. If you try and think you have control over some of your life, essentially, tha...”

“Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energ...”

“A syndicate is a group that has gotten together to pool their money so they can cover more contingencies. If I come to track with, say, $200, and I join a syndicate of 20 people, each of who...”

“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.”

“I've learned over time that human beings tend to want to do more than they have the courage to do or that the social contract will allow them to do.”

“I'm a bit of a Scotophile. I have a house on the Black Isle, so I'm in Scotland quite a lot and think Edinburgh is just the most beautiful city.”

“I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe h...”

“In the years after the expedition to Chad, I started the Honnold Foundation, a small nonprofit that was my attempt to do something positive in the world. I sought out projects that both help...”

“I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.”

“Luckily for me, snowboarding doesn't really feel like work unless I'm actually doing stuff that's, like, work-ish, but when I'm just snowboarding, I'm having so much fun.”

“Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and...”

“Soul bonds can't be broken. They only bend for a while . . .”

“I come from a family that hunted. I know how to hunt, but I don't do it.”

“Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a coupl...”

“I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I've never been to a lesson, so my theory of music is non-existent in any instrument, but we always had guitars around. My dad taught me to play drums fo...”

“Do not become someone else just because you are hurt. Be who you are & smile, it may solve, all problems you have got.”

“I write in two very different places: my desk in Palo Alto, California, is piled high with myriad jumbled books and papers whose stratigraphy is a challenge. Summers in Bozeman, Montana, I w...”

“Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.”

“I can always make it a rule to get there first with the most men.”

“Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.”

“Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself.”

“You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.”

“No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.”

“While facts do kill ignorance, ignoring facts does not kill them.”

“The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.”

“Some people go to L.A. just to see recognizable people. There are tour buses. But in New York, everyone seems a little less into that.”

“We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.”

“I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.”

“I don't do interviews under false pretenses.”

“I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.”

“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears t...”

“The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.”