Every accepted public quote

“In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.”

“Only one thing can save this country, and that's to get a handle on this deficit and debt issue.”

“I'm petrified of spiders. I hate them. I sleep with a glass of water beside my bed every night. I woke up once to take a sip of water and almost swallowed a dead one floating in the glass.”

“During my New York run, I injured my voice badly. I was getting increasingly hoarse, and it finally gave up. The doctor said I had two choices. Either cancel things, or try my luck and perha...”

“I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things...”

“Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.”

“I work out every day, but my idea is to make something short. I work out a maximum half hour. I only do like 20 minutes of cardio, and I do some stretching and some light weights, and I'm ou...”

“I wonder why a woman has to work one hundred times harder than her male counterparts. Every time I look around, I see that a woman has to prove to people that she is worthy of the same respe...”

“I have worked in the federal government and saw the debilitating effects of our antiquated civil service system on morale and results.”

“Why shouldn't there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?”

“It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.”

“I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions abou...”

“Lots of people juggle a lot of things in their personal and private lives, and I'm not unusual in that. Plenty of women have multitasked before me, and I want to acknowledge that.”

“Any beings advanced enough to traverse interstellar distances are at least a thousand years beyond our technical level. Spending gobs of time examining our missiles is equivalent to sending...”

“One thing most people would agree is that climate change would add further uncertainties to our already quite tight water supply situation in China.”

“That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't ma...”

“Most of the things at the zoo don't look like us. We're one design that works. Our chimp pals sort of look like us, so that's a different take on the same basic design. But fish don't look l...”

“Women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake an entire relationship.”

“If you were to explain The New Day to a new fan, you can't do it.”

“When I was filming 'Prudence' in Zimbabwe, I noticed the hold fundamentalist Christianity had on sub-Saharan Africa. So I thought I'd like to make a film about religion in Africa because the...”

“Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!”

“I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.”

“Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?”

“There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.”

“The More we value things, the less we value ourselves”

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

“Someone else's big success seems little to you! Your own little success seems big to you!”

“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.”

“Be willing to use yourself to get out there and put the company on the market. If you have to make a fool of yourself, make a fool of yourself, but make sure that you end up on the front pag...”

“Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always...”

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”

“If you ask me a question. Then you say the answer does not matter. You should not be worried or dispute the answer I give you.”

“Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.”

“We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees, Volkswagen corruption, dysfunctional government. Yet that reflec...”

“When asked how long I've worked here, I replied, "since the day they threatened to fire me."”

“When locational information is collected, people should be given advance notice and a chance to opt out. Data should be erased as soon as its main purpose is met.”

“In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.”

“Jinnah cannot be honoured in India. He's responsible for the partition of our country. No Jinnah eulogy is acceptable in India.”

“I believe that everything is divinely inspired. Bad things happen - they do - but I also think that when these bad things happen, there's an equal and opposite force that is happening, and t...”

“I want to reconcile the violence in your heart. I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask. I want to exorcise the demons from your past. I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in...”

“It's hard to pin down what it means to be an evangelical today. It's been diluted quite a bit. It is a powerful voting bloc, no question, but they're liberal as well as conservative - and th...”

“I feel like I've always been a hard worker - working too much on things that I don't need to work on. Nothing's ever going to be perfect, but I still feel like there's this attainable perfec...”

“Marketers sometimes get caught in this lie that you must talk to people only in the voice that they recognize.”

“The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power.”

“We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their fami...”

“If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.”

“The three greatest people in my life were white, OK. My high school coach, my high school superintendent and my mentor in Manhasset, Long Island.”

“When you are scoring runs, you automatically become a good leader because you are armed with so much confidence. If you struggle with your performance, then it becomes very difficult for a l...”