Every accepted public quote

“My training is documented on film.”

“I'm given an enormous amount of freedom, within the constraints of the editorial policies of the network. One of the Quest shows started off with me doing the cancan kicking... you know, the...”

“The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he until he has tried.”

“Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhan...”

“Our healthcare system has seen some of the greatest achievements of the human intellect since we started recording history: We're developing incredible devices and implantables to improve th...”

“Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job.”

“I wrote my own anthem: it's called 'Mariah's Theme.' It's on the 'Rainbow' album from '99. Back in the day.”

“One of the most striking things about the New Testament teaching on homosexuality is that, right on the heels of the passages that condemn homosexual activity, there are, without exception,...”

“Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we're their most reliable ally, too.”

“I think overall our national security is strengthened if we are able to make the decisions that we need and the alliances that we believe in outside the current structures of the European Un...”

“We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of G...”

“You grow up in a small community, there's no outlet like New York or L.A.”

“A man leaves his great house because he's bored With life at home, and suddenly returns, Finding himself no happier abroad. He rushes off to his villa driving like mad, You'ld think he's goi...”

“Rottweilers are really protective. They always want to be around you, and they are really cuddly. They are good around family.”

“The wealth in many large estates has never been taxed because it is largely in the form of unrealized - therefore untaxed - capital gains.”

“Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.”

“A great solo is one that's so frail that it actually teeters on the edge of falling apart, but doesn't.”

“I had white family members, black family members, white friends, black friends by the time I was 16.”

“I've never been a rearview mirror guy. I'm always looking forward, always looking downfield.”

“People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.”

“Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.”

“We equate beauty for women with youth, and that's sad. It's a shame it's so hard for so many of us to appreciate the beauty of an older woman and to accept it in ourselves.”

“I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.”

“As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.”

“If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.”

“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”

“You're only as good as your body of work, and everybody has issues, whether it's Steven Spielberg or Martin Scorsese. I'm not comparing myself to those guys, but you learn more from the miss...”

“Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.”

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

“Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.”

“The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger a...”

“When I was a kid, thinking of just being near a Beatle was an unattainable dream.”

“And so I told myself to take that one. Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time com...”

“Neurologically, people have a need to feel oriented, to know where they are, not just in terms of a compass and not just in terms of geography, but in terms of their culture and history. To...”

“To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.”

“I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it's about yourself, or whether it's about something else. It's my worldview; it...”

“I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy hom...”

“Common sense doesn't always ring true for many people; they want empirical evidence, the scientific stuff.”

“I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.”

“Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole w...”

“Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.”

“I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man outside my window. It's not funny! It was real.”

“If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that i...”

“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”

“Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?”

“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the prett...”

“I am not some intellectual hoping to be understood a century from now. I'm a political leader. I have to stand in front of my community. If I am a metre too far out in front of the people, I...”

“The early days, when Vine was so special and innovative - I would wake up and immediately want to make videos. I loved it.”