Every accepted public quote

“I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.”

“The Hamilton name will live on way beyond me now, which I'm very happy to be a part of.”

“I'm enjoying the opportunity that 'Parks And Recreation' affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.”

“The sun doesn't always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.”

“Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.”

“Of course, I tweet. Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitp...”

“Nat: Maybe you broke something. Midge: I know. Never fall down, never fall down! Nat: Ah, it's nothing. I fall down every morning. I get up, I have a cup of coffee, I fall down. That's the s...”

“Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.”

“I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.”

“The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run the offense. You should still be concerned on the offense side of the ball.”

“Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.”

“I got makeup tests and hair tests for 'Versailles,' and the main thing they were obsessed with was that my hands were disgusting. I had three years of Irish dirt under my nails. I had to hav...”

“Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.”

“Often-times, grass was more useful than gold. Man was more desirable than a beast. Chance was more seductive than knowledge, and eternal life was completely meaningless without love.”

“The people of Gaza are trapped. Israel has sealed the border, and they have no way to leave the Gaza Strip to do business.”

“We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or erect shopping malls and condos;...”

“The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.”

“It's not a ton of fun being a backup quarterback.”

“I've stepped down from jobs that paid me well more than what I was working anywhere else. And each time, it was to serve the public good and to serve the young men and women of our armed ser...”

“My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn't be doing this, but you're...”

“When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.”

“President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.”

“In my humble opinion, having tons of products and furniture and magazines and clothes is not luxurious - living minimally is.”

“I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more i...”

“My favorite part of the experience of serving in Congress is knowing that my time and effort are spent for the greater good and for the betterment of our nation.”

“Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.”

“I think young people respond much better to openness and frankness and practical stuff than speeches.”

“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.”

“During most of my life, my contact with Jews and Judaism was slight. I gave little thought to their problems, save in asking myself, from time to time, whether we were showing by our lives d...”

“I hope my music sets up the platform for me to be able to do lots of things - to have a cowboy-boot line, maybe, or do a perfume or makeup deal.”

“If you start with a great peach, there's nothing you're ever going to do that's going to make it any better than when it comes off the tree. In 1970, that was a revolution.”

“A wise person hates none and loves everyone. When you give love to someone without any expectations, your happiness account is credited. Each time you hate those who love you, or cheat your...”

“I promise you, if you look at YouTube and see some of my first covers, you will hear that I don't sound good. But I was so obsessed with it and wanted so much to be good at it that I forced...”

“I'm Gordon Ramsay, for goodness sake: people know I'm volatile.”

“There's always a but. It's a magical word. You can say anything you want, go on for as long as you want, and then all you have to do is add the magic word and instantly everything you said i...”

“Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.”

“Daddy was fun-loving and lighthearted - he lived life to the fullest and was not scared to take a risk.”

“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.”

“This is a fine picture. It came from the hand and the mind of a man inspired. Its idea and its color are from life. This thing is good.”

“I remember kickboxing and traveling the world when I was young. I would go to Japan or Africa, and I would go for the experience. As soon as I got off the plane, we'd go have a good time, pa...”

“I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, m...”

“Whites often respond defensively when linked to other whites as a group or 'accused' of collectively benefiting from racism, because as individuals, each white person is 'different' from any...”

“The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.”

“Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I s...”

“You know your business model is broken when you're suing your customers.”

“I had worked for ten years in theater; I had worked at Second City in Chicago. Then I got to Hollywood, and I was like, naively, 'Where's my pilot?'”

“We have an audience, the ability to fund our own projects, own our own projects, the ability to display our projects unencumbered by any middlemen. That's the perfect scenario.”

“I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they're not there. The last time I did a love scene, I...”