Every accepted public quote

“Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?”

“I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz shou...”

“Belly buttons were a big battle of mine. Down at the syndicate, they would clip them out with a razor blade. I began putting so many of them in, in the margins and everywhere, that they had...”

“Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed with a local company, although it wasn't a professional company.”

“A lot of my father's family in Canada volunteered in the First World War because they saw it as a war that was defending the mother country.”

“If there is no personal God,everything is permissablel, and if God exists,everthing is possible.”

“If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.”

“When you don't educate the people, you're crippling them. You are, you're not giving them ways to survive.”

“I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.”

“To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.”

“Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight.”

“I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one...”

“'Forensic Files' is big in our house.”

“We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and prop...”

“As is always the way with pancakes, the first hotcake to come out of the pan will probably be a bit misshapen. Just scoff it, and carry on with the rest.”

“America is always attracting people, from all over the earth.”

“The specifics of Cathy's and my life are different now, but the basic life challenges are exactly the same.”

“If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.”

“It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'm supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police might come and make me do hard labor in the Cold Iron Mines.”

“There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.”

“She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.”

“Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live.”

“Don't worry about anything. If something is meant for you, it will come to you somehow. There is nothing to worry, just give it some time. if its not meant for you, it will never come to you...”

“I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that.”

“And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.”

“Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.”

“At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for...”

“It's true that monetary policy was too lax for too long, and the government encouraged lending to people who were unlikely to repay their loans.”

“There are no military options for Iran. Attack them, and they will destroy the Gulf States oil industries, rain hundreds of missiles onto Israel, close the Arabian Gulf, and shoot oil prices...”

“The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.”

“It would be ridiculous to ignore the speed and possibilities of the digital landscape - you absolutely need to have fast-moving news online, but if you want to build a large audience over ti...”

“Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.”

“A friend is a friend who continues to love you and like you when you don't love him or like him any more.”

“Germany has an established and well-furnished Catholicism, often with employed Catholics who handle the church like a labor union. For them, the church is simply the employer.”

“I see racism as institutional: the rules are different for me because I'm black. It's not necessarily someone's specific attitude against me; it's just the fact that I, as a black man, have...”

“One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.”

“In all warm-blooded creatures, which are the highest evolved and have feelings, passions and emotions, which reach outward into the world with desire, which may be said to really live in the...”

“The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to afford...”

“Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.”

“Because homecoming came first, and there was the homecoming court. The five guys on homecoming court were disqualified from being in the prom court. So being prom king was being sixth most p...”

“That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes of millions of people who voted for Kha...”

“My jokes have definitely changed. 'SNL' has helped with that, because when you're on 'SNL,' you have to kind of pay attention to the news. I feel like my material has gotten smarter now.”

“I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.”

“Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays.”

“I saved everything, all my gear over the years: my trench coats and stuff that I have saved. It is all packed away nicely and neatly in vacuum-sealed bags and all that stuff.”

“For years, decades, the system has taught us to stay quiet. They've made us believe that those who take to the streets to speak up are crazy, criminals, troublemakers.”

“When you put money directly to a problem, it makes a good headline. It makes a good campaign slogan. You get to claim that you've engaged in these activities within an election cycle. But ce...”

“Going through all of this physical stuff, it's been a tough job. But I've loved every second of my life.”