Every accepted public quote

“You know what Marshall needs to do. He needs to stop being sad. When I get sad, I stop being sad, and be awesome instead. True story.”

“The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate...”

“We all know that China is not a free trader. That's the reality.”

“Do you love yourself enough to BE what you love yourself enough to WANT?”

“Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.”

“I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.”

“In an email... like I did 100 interviews, and I never repeated one story. That's impossible to do when you do face-to-face interviews, because your brain locks and you say the same thing ove...”

“When you're with somebody for some years, sometimes you need a break from 'em. You grow in different directions. That's kind of what happened with me and the Eastside Boyz. They wanted to do...”

“We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind, and this is achieved by means of meditation.”

“In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.”

“Northern New Jersey looks like a cluster of idyllic suburbs, but each of those seemingly normal towns has a dark side that's constantly gossiped about but never publicly acknowledged. They s...”

“Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren't known to fly off the shelves.”

“In my boyhood, cattle-raising ran almost neck and neck with grain-raising. In my secluded little valley in the Suisun Hills, the rodeo was the most exhilarating spectacle in the round year.”

“Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.”

“Love expands your soul with something inexplicably fulfilling. If you die without ever having experienced it, you will miss life's only true joy”

“I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.”

“I first started going to Chelsea games in the mid-Nineties when I lived off the North End Road, ten minutes' walk from Stamford Bridge.”

“All your experiences, the places you go to, the encounters you have with people, and, of course, your cultural trappings all make you who you are, and who you are makes your music.”

“I've got my bell rung, and when I first came in the league, the term wasn't 'concussion,' it was 'getting dinged' or 'had your bell rung.' So I had my bell rung a few times.”

“Be happy. It's one way of being wise.”

“I can't tell you what genre Maroon 5 is in. I don't know if they're rock or pop or alternative. I don't know what they are. I have a hard time separating that stuff. I just know what I like...”

“My standup is observational, but it's self-observational, and it's self-deprecating, definitely.”

“I feel great identification with the developing world.”

“In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as a...”

“The whole industry evolves around a great song.”

“Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.”

“The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.”

“I ended up getting to do a lot of student films - no budget: somebody just wrangled up a camera and went to shoot stuff - and it was fun. It was great.”

“What people don't understand is this is something that we only have in America. There is no other country in the world where the ordinary citizen can go out and enjoy hunting and fishing. Th...”

“I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.”

“Out of the strain of the Doing, into the peace of the Done.”

“Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they a...”

“I wore so much rubber when I was at MGM, I bumped into the wall once, and I ricocheted.”

“'Love Shack' is such an eternal kind of song; at karaoke, people do it.”

“Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how to get the money to do that.”

“Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of society. For one man to disobey a law he does not like is to invite others to disobey another...”

“Like cars, every relationship requires a bit of an occasional service, and fine-tuning should be compulsory.”

“Do not cease dreaming.”

“Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth.”

“Every sunrise is priceless and you can experience the richness that life holds only when you live life to the full instead of just being an onlooker.”

“We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.”

“In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.”

“Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their public school counterparts are innately familiar.”

“The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.”

“I mean when I was working shall we say with Disney, you know they sent me the script for the film Hercules and I had to imagine what all the characters looked like. And to develop those char...”

“The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to rai...”

“All I'm saying is that there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because maybe they're even more important.”

“America is off-the-hook gay. I will not go all Ann Coulter on you and say, 'Our gays are better than their gays,' but as far as countries go, we are in-your-face gay.”