Every accepted public quote

“It's one of the disadvantages of succeeding early. I missed simple things like having a driver's license. I think everyone has one. For so many people, a license is an obligation, but it was...”

“Anybody looking at the history even of the 20th century would not single out Islam as the bloodthirsty religion; it was Christian/Nazi/Communist Europe and Buddhist/Taoist/Hindu/atheist Asia...”

“Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a disciplined or undisciplined state of mind. It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to ha...”

“Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.”

“I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written.”

“When you're making a movie, you have those days that you really look forward to, and it's a little bit like Murphy's law. The days you look forward to become your hell days. The days you're...”

“The Internet is a big distraction.”

“My personal experience in Ninawa Province has been that, at the most fundamental level, people don't really care if it's a Shiite, a Sunni, a Kurd, or a Turkoman that's providing them securi...”

“I have three godkids that are just so gorgeous; I love them dearly, and they keep me going.”

“Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.”

“I make myself eat one piece of toast for breakfast. When I'm doing 'Bake Off,' I eat soup for lunch. I know what puts on weight for me; it's just over-indulgence.”

“Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.”

“History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionles...”

“Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.”

“I know, firsthand, that soccer brings people together - all it takes is a ball and a few people, and the seeds of friendship are planted.”

“We try to bring in the best players for Cameroon: not just best in terms of talent but those who are motivated and who know what it means to play for this nation.”

“Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense...”

“When you're a kid, and someone is your best friend, you almost don't need words. It's almost like puppies in a - frolicking in a garden or something. You don't articulate stuff. You just liv...”

“My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to study and enjoy many different types of music.”

“I have a big love for jazz music. The only thing I hated about singing with a jazz band was having to wear a gown to everything.”

“I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in resp...”

“When I was a teacher, I'd walk into the classroom. I stood at the board. I was the man. I directed operations. I was an intellectual and artistic and moral traffic cop, and I - and I would d...”

“He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.”

“Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yo...”

“With God, brokenness is nothing more than the stage upon which the impossible is about to happen.”

“When you have to write a letter, you're automatically put into a state of composure and a kind of formality. You can't help it. So, no, I never once got a letter where someone just popped of...”

“When we die, our spirits go to the spirit world, and our bodies return to the elements of the earth until the resurrection.”

“Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.”

“Early success is a terrible teacher. You're essentially being rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation where you must prepare, you can't do it. You don't...”

“I think indie films have more of a fresh, experimental vibe about them, whereas studio films know what they want and can basically get it.”

“What I do is not regional comedy, and it is not based in the southern area.”

“It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.”

“Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?”

“Actually I love asparagus.”

“One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.”

“When Colin Kaepernick refuses to stand for the anthem, that's both a sports story and a politics story.”

“Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.”

“On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this...”

“Trump's rise was contingent on wide swaths of the country completely tuning out so-called mainstream media sources, while all too many outlets did a poor job covering 2016.”

“I'd love to become like Bill Murray, who was so funny on 'Saturday Night Live' and has gone on to do some of the landmark comedies people like. And then to add this whole other phase to his...”

“No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.”

“It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.”

“When I'm singing, that's all me. That's from the bottom of my heart - it's everything I've worked for. When you're on stage, there are no guidelines. No one's telling me what to do!”

“We struggle with the right words to describe the design process at Apple. But it is very much about designing and prototyping and making.”

“There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kin...”

“I've been very, very fortunate. I don't need to work another day in my life. I have all the security I need.”

“Glenn Slater is my lyricist who, of the new young lyricists coming along, is the most exciting, I think.”

“My mantra is, 'Dare to be...' I leave it open-ended, because depending on the mood, the weather, the day, you might need a different power word. Having a power word can help steer you in the...”