Every accepted public quote

“It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.”

“Our hubris needs to be downsized, thinking that profiteering on Earth, on whatever level - environmentally, economically, culturally - is unlimited and everybody should get as much as he wan...”

“I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.”

“An attempt by the Mongols to introduce paper money in Persia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries flopped because no one would accept it. The public had no confidence in the paper money d...”

“I feel like I just learned a whole new world when I was studying under Ne-Yo when I was about 17. I was living on Ne-Yo's manager's couch, making three songs a day.”

“My first name used to be Leslie. I snipped that off and put my middle name, which was Steven, in the front.”

“Success in the revolution and construction depends on how a party, the General Staff of the revolution, is built and on how its leadership role is enhanced.”

“I just think it is important that you realize, that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we...”

“I like working. I think being on set is one of my favorite places in the world.”

“There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious bel...”

“There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Savior. And there can be blessings in the burdens we bear. As a resul...”

“My father describes himself as a Pole of Lithuanian descent. At Southampton University, he read aeronautical engineering and then the family moved to Hong Kong - this was before I was born -...”

“China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.”

“If you look at the origins of the postal service in the U.S., the founding fathers created it to protect democratic rights.”

“I didn't see how much of my self-worth had been tied into that relationship until it was over. The hardest part wasn't leaving her behind; it was feeling like I'd left pieces of myself behin...”

“By supporting all the links in the building chain and giving them an easy, intuitive tool for sharing model-based project information, GTeam enhances workflows and improves communication fro...”

“The first movie that I ever said was my favorite movie - and I've said for the longest - is 'The Producers,' Mel Brooks' original 'Producers.' The two lead performances from Zero Mostel and...”

“Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.”

“Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.”

“I've always done party building and party fundraising.”

“It all counts,' Adam said again. 'And the bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more, you're...”

“The doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fou...”

“I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.”

“I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.”

“Do what you fear and fear disappears.”

“I think it is a huge honor to get to go play for the troops who have been working their tails off for several years, some with several tours under their belt.”

“I'm not a person who comes with bodyguards. I'm a simple jhola-kurta kind of girl. So people treat me as a buddy.”

“The interpretation of dreams is a great art.”

“Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspir...”

“A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.”

“Strip malls are history.”

“The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.”

“Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.”

“I can get a call at 2 A.M., and the person on the other end is like: 'Sorry, did I wake you?' and I'm like: 'No, I'm wide awake.'”

“If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men...”

“And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was neve...”

“In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked the 'bottle' to enforce the powers that were availab...”

“For 'Conan,' I had to eat boiled chicken breast and work out all the time and basically eat like a bird every two hours and stay ripped.”

“I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will tur...”

“I'm definitely inspired by Michael Jackson. I watch all his videos all the time. And Busta Rhymes, early Busta Rhymes - I really was inspired by him. He's really the reason why I started rap...”

“I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amount...”

“One of the things that the Grateful Dead did, way back when, was we spent a lot of time just turning each other on to music. If somebody was listening to something that really caught their e...”

“I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with.”

“Every time I hear a politician mention the word 'stimulus,' my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.”

“My dad told me, 'If you're going to go out there and play baseball, or you're going to play basketball or football, work hard at it no matter what. I want you to have fun with your buddies,...”

“Before founding Ballet Beautiful, I was a ballerina with the New York City Ballet.”

“The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted.”

“I don't think I've ever actually written from inspiration, actually had a song just go, 'Bing!' I only recall that happening to me twice - once was with 'Terrapin' and the other was 'Wharf R...”