Every accepted public quote

“I got my start in the 'New York Times' because I used to read Stuart Elliot, the advertising columns. I still do. And I read him so religiously, I wanted to work for him before I died.”

“We hope that we will live only because we must be with God, as alive as He is.”

“I would love to have gotten into it with Harley Race. He was such a good wrestler and rough and tough. We wrestled at the same time but never each other. And wrestling Sting would have been...”

“It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.”

“It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or in...”

“I would say the country is a different country. It is a better country. The signs I saw when I was growing up are gone and they will not return. In many ways the walls of segregation have be...”

“I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.”

“I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.”

“Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.”

“America has remained highly engaged in global affairs throughout decades of growing energy dependency, so it's hard to imagine it would disengage if its quest for energy self-sufficiency fai...”

“I hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me.”

“My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.”

“Republicans think tax filing should be easier for you, not just the well-connected.”

“The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'”

“In the long run, curiosity-driven research just works better... Real breakthroughs come from people focusing on what they're excited about.”

“To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.”

“Some people say I'm not a very pretty woman, but I'm a very beautiful woman inside.”

“I don't particularly consider myself an actor. I have no training. I love doing it, but I would never consider myself to be a colleague of an actual actor. That would be stepping way up in c...”

“I remember, my first season was 1999, and I must have crashed about 13 times in that first year. But then, in the second season, you crash about half as much and then, in the third year, eve...”

“If a band or artist isn't tweeting or writing posts on Facebook every day, there can be this kind of mystique built about them, and I find myself retreating from the spotlight more and more.”

“Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.”

“Narcissism is the part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don't like to see it highlighted in everybody else I meet.”

“5G goes beyond the regular operator business; it's a business revolution.”

“Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.”

“I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you...”

“My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit.”

“As a young man, I feel as if it's all about progressing. I may have had to mature a little faster than others, but no worries. I took it on full steam and led by example off the field.”

“I've never been the sexy or the cute girl.”

“I don't believe in perfection, but those acrimony-free gaps during our family holidays can be downright blissful.”

“The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin.”

“I'm trying to be better for my son. And regretting every moment that I'm not spending with him.”

“My girls and I regularly go through their rooms to find clothes and toys to donate to charities. I firmly believe that children who have been given so much need to experience the joy that co...”

“Foreign policy is painstakingly difficult, and if there is to be anything gained from the experience in Libya, it is how not to conduct world affairs.”

“There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.”

“The concept of The 'Most Beautiful Moment in Life', that was chapter one for us; it feels like that because we were starting from the bottom, but on this concept, 'Love Yourself', we started...”

“Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.”

“If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it.”

“By flattening time and space, social computing and business is unlocking credible potential within business. For example, individuals and organizations that weren't connected before are now...”

“A lot of other bass players have told me I'm the only bass player who plays with a pick but sounds like he's playing with the thumb and fingers, which is a great compliment.”

“Remnants of the foreclosure crisis linger everywhere.”

“I'm living to the edges of my fingernails, using everything I have. It's impossible for me to look at things politically or in any way as a project, to further my career. You're injected dir...”

“Dare to dream big. Dream while you are awake, and let those dreams take your sleep away.”

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”

“I've never crashed a wedding. When I was a kid I, of course, used to crash parties. Crashing a wedding is difficult though because you have to have the suit, and you have to have information...”

“Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as 'the public.'”

“The dress hat took a nosedive after the dashing JFK showed up at his inauguration bareheaded. Suddenly, a chapeau was no longer de rigueur for any man leaving the house.”

“I have done 'Sports Illustrated,' but I don't regret it because it portrayed me in a positive way - as an athlete.”

“Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving.”