Every accepted public quote

“I used to be afraid of pain, didn't take a lot of risks, especially in love. I'm not as afraid anymore. I'm more spontaneous, more likely to say what I think.”

“A lot of times, especially when it comes to political debates, people get caught up in esoteric statistics. So the realest thing I can do that has nothing to do with numbers is tell you my p...”

“Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.”

“The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.”

“Good relationships don't just happen. They take time, patience and two people getting through all the hard times together.”

“I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.”

“In figure skating, you have four minutes to do your best. It's your time; you do your best.”

“I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.”

“Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.”

“Determination, devotion and deliberation are the fundamental pillars of societal growth.”

“'Straight Outta Compton' is the album I'm least happy with. I threw it together in six weeks so we could have something to sell out of the trunk.”

“I've said a lot of stuff in the past, but not with any intentions to hurt anybody. It's all a bit tongue-in-cheek.”

“Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.”

“In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had been tactfully asking, 'Do you ever have snow at all?' as I steeled myself t...”

“The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.”

“Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakabl...”

“I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to...”

“Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so - most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for getting your team on the same page.”

“The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.”

“Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?”

“So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.”

“Keynes was scarcely a 'revolutionary' in any real sense. He possessed the tactical wit to dress up ancient statist and inflationist fallacies with modern, pseudoscientific jargon, making the...”

“No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.”

“Life's not so rocky now. It was very volatile when you're young: you've got no experience. Your sense of disappointment is far greater; your sense of success is overwhelming. And then you've...”

“If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have t...”

“The reality is this: Fighting isn't a team sport; it's an individual's sport.”

“I'm about 75 pages into a book on poetry. I don't know if anybody wants to read it. It's on any broad variety of subjects. I walk down the street and think of a topic and jot it down and say...”

“I think when you grow up - and this is a simple thing that I've said numerous times - you should think and act like one.”

“I've sold everything from fashion, make-up, couture magazines, radio, reality television, movies. There isn't a thing I haven't sold, including Tampax. You name it.”

“I had a dream about you. We couldn't decide on a sunrise. You wanted a tan, I only cared about the view. Then World War III fulfilled both our desires.”

“She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write down everything that otherwise would be hard to talk about. As I said, later I understood...”

“So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.”

“Realization that is beyond characteristic or designation is marvelous!”

“I've been told that some guy wrote something like, 'Andy Serkis does everything, animators do nothing.' Of course I never in a million years said that, wouldn't ever say that. It's not withi...”

“Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.”

“The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by bomb or ballistic missile. It was a large, bulky de...”

“I often say to prospective clients, 'Nothing will age faster than your hardware.' Even the thinnest touch screen will look like a toaster oven in a number of years.”

“I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.”

“Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.”

“I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.”

“I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.”

“Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.”

“Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.”

“Vipul Shah wanted me to do the Hindi adaptation of my film 'Kaakha Kaakha.' I declined the offer.”

“Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.”

“It's important to contribute to group discussions, but if all you're thinking about is when you'll get the opportunity to speak - and stressing about whether you'll sound smart - you won't b...”

“Jelas sekali bahwasanya rumah tangga yang aman damai ialah gabungan di antara tegapnya laki-laki dan halusnya perempuan.”

“How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.”