Every accepted public quote

“Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.”

“Undistracted by schooling, one studies best during vacations”

“Many people claim to have bags of knowledge in life. However, they do not use it; except at the airport.”

“Dick Van Dyke spent most of his time setting everybody else up.”

“I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to th...”

“I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns out to be misinterpreted. I've had such an earful for so long,...”

“When I first heard Thundercat's stuff, I thought, 'Man, this is so original.' A lot of his ballads, to me, had such a beautiful harmonic, almost classically Hispanic, feel or, like, Brazilia...”

“That's the best thing about being an actor. If you're in a baseball movie, you walk away knowing way more about baseball, or if you're in a sci-fi film, you learn way more about Comic-Con, a...”

“I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's really about who I surround myself with, so I just try to always be with hilarious people.”

“That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking around Paris and shooting where we didn't have permits.”

“Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are...”

“The Internet is the Viagra of big business.”

“If the goal of the DOT's rule is to prevent companies from deceiving passengers about the total cost of their ticket, why is the department mandating that airlines hide the taxes, surcharges...”

“I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.”

“Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.”

“A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.”

“Sometimes officials should look at English football and let us play more. I like their system because, in Europe, their referees are more lenient.”

“Our initial idea with Stripe was that for people like us - those building apps and websites - it was incredibly difficult to take payments. So with an open mind, and maybe a useful lack of k...”

“Much of what's called 'public' is increasingly a private good paid for by users - ever-higher tolls on public highways and public bridges, higher tuitions at so-called public universities, h...”

“(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God.”

“I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.”

“Statistically speaking, tracking tended to diminish learning and boost inequality wherever it was tried. In general, the younger tracking happened, the worse the entire country did on PISA....”

“When you eat a piece of white bread, think of it as putting a tissue on a fire. But if you eat something that has wholegrains, whether it's a little bit of oatmeal, a little bit of protein,...”

“I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apar...”

“I think television goes through phases, like other creative arts, where suddenly a group of people are producing exciting work all at once.”

“There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.”

“I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.”

“The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.”

“People like Little Mix... they've got a big lot of choreography that they need to do so it's difficult to sing and dance at the same time. I think if they've got to do a big performance with...”

“Giving users easy access to many different kinds of digital assets on the blockchain and, particularly, tokens that are linked to assets in the real world, is crucial to seeing blockchain ad...”

“Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be.”

“Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.”

“I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.”

“I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.”

“You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people t...”

“An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.”

“The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.”

“I don't need to wait for someone else to get a bright idea and say, 'I wanna work with this guy.' I can do my own thing and drop it right on the Web and bypass you and your bright idea.”

“The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.”

“Teams that consistently perform at the highest levels are able to come together and be unified across the organization - staff, players, coaches, management, and ownership. When everyone is...”

“One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that will never go away.”

“Women are more likely to have a ruptured uterus if they've had multiple C-sections because there's more scar tissue.”

“The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.”

“I remember reading 'Catcher in the Rye,' but I don't think I got it.”

“It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.”

“I'm working a lot. Keeping my head down and focusing and trying to take advantage of the opportunities that have come my way.”

“Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.”

“We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven't eaten for three hours, we think we're starving. You're not starving - human beings can go for 30 days without food.”