Every accepted public quote

“Christianity is a religion in a rush.”

“If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.”

“Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behaviour that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.”

“I'm sure everyone knows that my heart is and always will be with the players, the fans and the entire Dodger family. I've cared about the Dodgers for nearly my entire life, and nothing can c...”

“I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained he...”

“I'm fascinated by people who have to reinvent themselves. I did it a few times - I was going to be a physicist before I was passionate about philosophy - and I realized that one more change,...”

“Only the gentle are ever really strong.”

“I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.”

“To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. T...”

“You can take care of your body, and it will low-key show you respect in turn.”

“You can't love me if you don't love you, you can't think of nothing to do with me if you can't think of nothing to do with yourself, stop feeling sorry for yourself and tidy up, clean up the...”

“There was a time when rival teams used a shift against me. They would put the second baseman on the shortstop's side of the bag, move the shortstop into the hole to his right, and have the t...”

“He was wearing a tuxedo, and everyone was saying, 'Rich! Rich! Rich!' and asking him to sign autographs, and he just looked so composed and suave and handsome, and boom! All of the sudden, I...”

“Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.”

“The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost look as much like home as we can.”

“With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic.”

“We were looking for representation that was creatively and commercially in synch with our core DNA. The team at WME understands where we're going, and we're looking forward to taking our com...”

“In 1972, Texaco Oil Company, in partnership with PetroEcuador, the state-run oil company of Ecuador, began to drill for oil in the jungles of the Ecuadorian Amazon.”

“I want to represent my country to the best of my abilities. I want to make Reese Witherspoon proud.”

“I love 'Robot Chicken,' 'The Boondocks' and 'America's Funniest Home Videos.' Then there's this show called 'The First 48.' It's a documentary about killings where they try and find murderer...”

“After my boyfriend of two years broke up with me, I could barely speak without crying. I felt blindsided and didn't know what to do. I didn't know if I could get him back and the anxiety was...”

“I can't imagine that companies are uninteresting if they don't have a billion users. But I do believe, to have mass scale, you have to be in the many-hundreds-of-millions-of-users range, and...”

“Socialism and communism fall of their own weight because, as Margaret Thatcher said, you run out of other people's money. Because socialized medicine never falls of its own weight because yo...”

“We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I'm glad I didn't have a traditional upbringing.”

“Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.”

“Hear me, and I will instruct thee; hearken to the thing that I say, and I shall tell thee more.”

“Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.”

“And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 y...”

“What I want from my Lovers is real unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.”

“I'm keeping my day job, because Poptropica is something that really energizes me. I'd love to create a TV series or write a film that's not in the 'Wimpy' universe, but I know it will be dif...”

“I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.”

“That's one of the things that I'm going to talk about, is the need for the Human Rights Council to actually deal with human rights. We've got countries on the Human Rights Council right now...”

“Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.”

“Maybe I'm a control freak.”

“We learned more from a three-minute record, baby, than we ever learned in school.”

“I was born the year the Troubles began, in 1968. That world of violence was all I knew - people murdered, maimed, kneecapped, bombed. I don't remember a time without a major atrocity of some...”

“Meghan Markle just single-handedly gave all divorced women more hope.”

“It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten ye...”

“CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in t...”

“The teachings of Tibetan Buddhism have been passed down for a long time now. They have that system pretty well figured out.”

“I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.”

“Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.”

“Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.”

“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.”

“You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.”

“I don't need you to be funny. I don't want to be entertained.”

“There's posh character actors. For God's sake, Olivier was one of the greatest character actors in the world. Hamlet, Shylock, Othello - Othello! Whether you like it or not.”

“People make the rules of society, not God.”