Every accepted public quote

“The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one...”

“McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-o...”

“For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you p...”

“I know April, May and June are a few unbearable months, and working out in a gym and sweating in such dirty hot, sticky, humid weather puts me off. The best way is to swim. I feel so fresh a...”

“Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be...”

“Don't try to find love, love will find you”

“'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.”

“When you write about hope, don't make it sappy; make it cool, make it adaptable.”

“In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright...”

“One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.”

“The awful penalty of success is the haunting dread of subsequent failure.”

“I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.”

“For many, hair is just hair. It's something you grow, shape, adapt, adorn, and cut. But my hair has always been so much more than what's on my head. It's a marker of how free I felt in my bo...”

“If you spend all day on horseback, and you hop off, you walk around like you still have a horse between your legs. And it affects your shoulders. They fall.”

“Our bodies and minds evolved and were adapted for hundreds of thousands of years for tasks like climbing a tree and picking apples, or hunting rabbits, or looking for mushrooms in the forest...”

“Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.”

“Would a good friend, a smart friend, encourage you to do something as dishonorable as not pay a bill you're morally and legally obligated to pay? I don't think so.”

“Little Steven - the songwriter, producer, and arranger - stayed alive doing the 'Lilyhammer' score. That pretty much took up three or four years of my life, and all of my musical energy went...”

“We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.”

“I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automa...”

“Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their children's schools, or as b...”

“We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.”

“I never prayed for no money, and I never prayed for no fame. I said, 'I'll take care of that myself. You just keep me healthy and I'll do all I can to try to turn people around, to try to st...”

“I am not there to finish fourth at the end of the day. I am there to win as a racer, but on the radio, it sounds I am arrogant and not listening to the team, but it is not like that.”

“We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.”

“In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.”

“You should see my house. It's sort of explosive. Like a crazy person lives there.”

“Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.”

“Gender is more of a continuum than we are willing to admit when we hit the restroom.”

“Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported...”

“Why can't I be the adorable one?”

“Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.”

“The 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that said Iran had paused its nuclear weaponization work also reported with high confidence that such work had been going on through 2003. How far did...”

“At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.”

“It's not like vampires are inherently bad. It's just people need to make better vampire movies.”

“Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.”

“There are vivid memories from my childhood - what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there was no union. I suppose, if I wanted to be fair, I cou...”

“If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.”

“Before I was rapping, I was an interior designer and decorator.”

“Time is money.”

“I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better chance of encountering public opinion that reaches a critical...”

“When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That's what I wanted to do.”

“It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.”

“Helen Zille, formidable leader of the Democratic Alliance, routinely vilified as representing white interests only, is trying to make sure everyone knows that the case against Zuma is strong...”

“So much of 'Mudbound' is about man's relationship to the land and to the elements. It's about the desire for control and how powerless we are against nature. We always knew we would shoot wi...”

“My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made...”

“The world is still a fantastic and wondrous place to live.”

“The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in t...”