Every accepted public quote

“I've actually traveled quite a bit with various authors. Judith Miller and I toured the highlands in Scotland with Liz Curtis Higgs, and that was incredible fun. However, I love going with m...”

“Stupidity without malice isn't horrible; some people can't help it.”

“'The X-Files,' as I recall, we didn't know really what we were until the middle of the first year. You know, so if we'd been cancelled, you get cancelled before you mature into what it is yo...”

“You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experien...”

“I don't just throw out microwave records.”

“Anytime you spar at a new dojo, whether it's in Japan, Brazil, or Thailand, the fighters come after the new guy. It's a way to test yourself against the best and to sharpen your technical sk...”

“We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and...”

“I never praised Mr. Snowden or said his actions rise to those of Mohandas Gandhi or other civil rights leaders.”

“Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.”

“The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.”

“The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its des...”

“But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.”

“Being able to go forward has been good, you know? I'm lucky to have that ability, to pressure guys and make them falter and wilt.”

“It still amazes and fascinates me that women of color have kept my work alive for these many generations.”

“For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will become conveniently true - but because the complicated truth about...”

“The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.”

“It is an odd thing about newspapers that they live by exposure, yet they keep their own worlds concealed.”

“The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.”

“It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of...”

“In a traditional German toilet, the hole into which shit disappears after we flush is right at the front, so that shit is first laid out for us to sniff and inspect for traces of illness. In...”

“Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time... I don't want to just sit on my phone for hours.”

“Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive.”

“I don't appreciate people invading my privacy.”

“Spirituality is everything for me because I've based my life on that: finding the positive out of everything and professing what I want and manifesting it in my mind.”

“And who are you really, Tallis? Are you going to be the hero of Selkirk, rather than its monster? A promise of hope, rather than a warning of darker things to come?”

“Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has absolute power and is accountable only to God. That, of course, was a...”

“Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much ha...”

“I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any...”

“We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.”

“There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.”

“The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.”

“When you come off a losing season - one of the worst seasons in all of basketball - and get guys like Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett, two perennial All-Stars, we felt like we had a championship...”

“I can do most anything and not have a problem with it. The only time I have negative attention is when I run naked through the streets brandishing a handgun.”

“We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business.”

“I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty p...”

“It's a very different thing when you're creating the world as opposed to when you're just part of the world. I love the detail of it, the problem-solving of it, and I love working with actor...”

“Nations, like individuals, have to limit their objectives or take the consequences.”

“I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.”

“The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that, compared with 1509, or even 1939, life in 2009 is sweet as honey.”

“I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.”

“I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job.”

“To accomplish its mission, the FBI relies heavily upon its law enforcement and intelligence partners around the nation and around the globe. By combining our resources and our collective exp...”

“I love the Beatles, and when I was very young, I had young parents, so Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles constantly were big influences on my life.”

“We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!”

“I am really excited and thankful for opportunity to work with Cotto Promotions, Tidal and Roc Nation.”

“'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.”

“The idea that you must bathe every day is, to a certain extent, a manufacture on the part of the soap industry.”

“My dad's a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.”