Every accepted public quote

“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”

“We do take seriously our responsibility, and growing ability, to educate people about healthy eating and giving them greater access to nourishing and affordable fresh food.”

“Acting, for me, was kind of a way of survival, honestly. I'm the baby boy out of four different sisters, and I grew up in a house with so many different personalities that acting was the onl...”

“You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.”

“Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.”

“When I fell in love, all the shame and guilt I carried with me for years suddenly vanished.”

“I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.”

“If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not re...”

“100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be?”

“Your dreamers. You ridiculous children. You dancing grinning fuckups. Here is your bright future. Your earnest, saccharine hope. How does it taste dripping from the neck of everyone you love...”

“Saving the world via medical research or going off to Gobi Desert to dust off dinosaur eggs is what I thought I might be doing when I was a kid, and I'd love to bring those interests to a sh...”

“I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.”

“Sitting calmly on a ship in fair weather is not a metaphor for having faith; but when the ship has sprung a leak, then enthusiastically to keep the ship afloat by pumping and not to seek the...”

“The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene.”

“We make a lot of movies that I don't think merit a wide release. We have this label called Tilt, and we have the movies come out on that, and that's fine. But it shocks me when, having done...”

“People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.”

“An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12...”

“I love the Comedy Cellar. The audience has no expectations because they don't know me. It's great. It's only winning - if I bomb, they just say, 'Oh, the French guy sucks.' But if I do well,...”

“I wasn't prepared for the environment I encountered trying to break into television news. In the world of music, where I spent my formative years, we were judged solely on our talent, and ge...”

“Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.”

“I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and...”

“Don't let go of the vine.”

“All around us, algorithms provide a kind of convenient source of authority: an easy way to delegate responsibility, a short cut we take without thinking.”

“Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be passed on. A 20-year-old man and woman will each pass on about 20 de novo mutations to a b...”

“The 99 percent should be protesting college campuses.”

“I question all things. As I stand before the festering and varnished facades of your haughtiest moral dogmas, I write thereon in letters of blazing scorn: Lo and behold; all this is fraud! C...”

“Some might argue that it's unfair to judge Hillary Clinton for the policies her husband championed years ago. But Hillary wasn't picking out china while she was first lady. She bravely broke...”

“Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: 'Oh, that's just the way things are done around he...”

“People think of me as a nice person because, I think, I have grown into a nice person.”

“I'm definitely aware that the physical appearance is a very temporary gift. I'm very thankful for the opportunities that I've been able to experience, but I keep it all in check and don't le...”

“I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.”

“Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.”

“Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.”

“Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have s...”

“I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.”

“God answers prayer with certainty. Wish fulfillment is something else.”

“I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.”

“Our small ears never had such a workout as on the Fourth of July, hearing not only our own bursting crackers but also those of our friends, and often the boom of homemade cannon shot off by...”

“No government prospers by saying, 'I don't need to do anything. Just by being there, we have made the country thrive.'”

“I've made sure that I've stood for privacy and the rights of the people time and time again.”

“I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.”

“Thanks to the social web, we can share and trade to use a whole universe of things we once had to buy ourselves. From cars to solar panels, people are realizing they can reap the benefits of...”

“Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.”

“I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.”

“I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.”

“I enjoy celebrating Valentine's Day. It's a nice way to say you're thinking about your family, someone special, or dear friends.”

“I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.”

“Your heart matters and your pain matters, but for the love of all things beautiful in the world, you must keep your cool. Whether things ended amicably or in a messy manner, your overwhelmin...”