Every accepted public quote

“I graduated college valedictorian, got an M.A. from Columbia University in Spanish literature at the age of twenty-two, and still couldn't answer the question 'What do you want to do with yo...”

“Fighters remember that one-punch KO. Something clicks, and they lose it. They don't wanna be knocked out. It happened to Roy Jones.”

“This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”

“The Glory Is Always Hidden Between The Lines Of the Story”

“I came up in a time when Springsteen, the Stones, Dylan, and the Beatles were still dominant. For every magazine cover with a new band, there were five covers with one of those guys.”

“Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?”

“It is an intellectual and moral vacuity that has crippled what the World Social Forum's founders sincerely hoped would produce some sort of democratic alternative to what they saw as the hea...”

“And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.”

“It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.”

“Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.”

“Listen, I know everything you're saying is true. Ellie does need a good man. She needs someone steady. Someone who can offer her a life full of love and security.Unfortunately, she wants me....”

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”

“Such utterly free and gratuitous love is the only love that validates, transforms, and changes us at the deepest levels of consciousness. It is what we all desire and what we were created fo...”

“If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.”

“I want to talk about jobs, the economy, foreclosures. I want to talk about energy prices.”

“Life is a precious gift - a gift we often take for granted until it is threatened.”

“I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.”

“Sadly, I have very vague memories of Burma. The family was forced to leave when the generals took over.”

“What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.”

“If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.”

“I had a period when I was sixteen where I started to get a big head. I was going through puberty, and I was nominated for an Academy Award. My head got inflated. My friends were the real one...”

“I say nice things about Mariah all the time. I tell Mariah all the time how much of a fan I am of her. She's one of my favorite artists of all time... She's shaped a generation of singers.”

“The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.”

“The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.”

“I'm down to act a little bit - go on a couple auditions or make one of those three-second cameos with one line.”

“I've always been conscientious and hardworking. I've never wasted time.”

“You have the women sitting on the left and the men sitting on the right. Everything is to keep your mind focused on God... To me the most beautiful thing anyone on earth can experience, othe...”

“No one can undermine national unity.”

“The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.”

“The women's movement kind of came out of left field in the 1960s and 1970s when they turned on 'Playboy.'”

“A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.”

“Any philosophy, whether of a religious or political nature - and sometimes the dividing line is hard to determine - fights less for the negative destruction of the opposing ideology than for...”

“Ideally, a good pastor wants to empower a congregation to the point where they don't need him. You want everyone to leave feeling better.”

“Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisit...”

“Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as many imagine. We might see a world inhabited by objects and people, a world infused with ca...”

“I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting.”

“Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”

“I'm extremely delighted to host the special show 'Dussehra - Jeet Sachchai Kee', which will celebrate the spirit of good over evil. The show will be filled with a heavy dose of entertainment...”

“Major markets are a key factor in advertise and budgeting decisions.”

“The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.”

“One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor.”

“The more failures you overcome, the more sweeter your victory will become.”

“'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.”

“We are confronting a situation in which the Administration, in my view, is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge...”

“In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that lon...”

“There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.”

“I looked back on the roaring Twenties - with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby,' and the pre-Code films - as a party I had somehow managed to miss. After World War Two, I expected something similar, a...”

“We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make medicines and drugs as affordable as a possible to what is largel...”