Every accepted public quote

“To indicate the ideal proportion and reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.”

“But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.”

“A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape o...”

“Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.”

“The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my...”

“For black people who are really dark - and a lot of black people were averse to be dark skinned - it was believed that you'd be so dark that you couldn't see them at night unless they were s...”

“The window in which it's acceptable to listen to Ella Fitzgerald's 1960 record 'Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas' is short, so I keep it in heavy rotation throughout the festive season.”

“'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.”

“In defence, 'Make in India' is happening in a big way, and it is not happening without orders coming from the ministry.”

“Would you believe that Sammy Davis, Jr. taught me how to sing a ballad? 'You can be in an arena,' he said, 'and you should be able to hold their attention.'”

“I don't know what I would have done to rebel. I don't know what I was rebelling against.”

“I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'”

“Typically, I don't get to unwind after a day at work.”

“I do not envisage going to Barcelona.”

“Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.”

“Learning is its own exceeding great reward.”

“Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.”

“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”

“The minute I'm off that stage, I try to get as 'me' as possible. I do that by piling on my black eyeliner, and I put on my ripped tights. Dressing like myself again helps.”

“By strengthening the three pillars of the United Nations - security, development and human rights - we can build a more peaceful, more prosperous and more just world for our succeeding gener...”

“Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut. I'm trying to do things differently, without the Luc Besson solution.”

“A lot of people say to me, 'Stay grounded; be humble.' David Schwimmer was just like, 'You need to love what you do.' And I think that's really nice. Just love your work. My family has given...”

“I was working like a dog as a housekeeper, barista, nanny, cook, so I could save enough money to really sit with my instruments. Whenever I had 20 minutes, I would practice a new chord or wr...”

“To do a great right do a little wrong.”

“My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.”

“I first started writing historical fiction in the late '70s and kept pictures of Kathleen Woodiwiss and Rosemary Rogers on my refrigerator until my first book was published by Avon in 1982....”

“I think anyone that grew up in the '70s and '80s grew up with Bob Barker and Wink Martindale and I think that was just always... when you were a game show host, you were the man of the hour.”

“Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a g...”

“Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!”

“The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry...”

“Sometimes I felt as a writer I was purging, and it almost hurt to purge to that level. Now it doesn't feel that way, maybe because I'm older. Maybe life has given me some punches, but it did...”

“I can only be me. I have a hard time being a chameleon as a singer.”

“I was in Australia for many years. And the system there is a two-party system and the government changes from time to time.”

“Radical socio-economic transformation is a policy of the ANC. As a leader of the ANC, you have to implement the policy. When I talk about radical socio-economic transformation, it's not my t...”

“I think I said something mean when I was little, and my mother snapped on me. I was just like, 'I'm sorry!' I could relate. If I had cursed out my dad, I probably would be just waking up.”

“Food as sport is nothing new. To a vicar, especially, church catering has represented the conduct of war by other means for many years.”

“I was just taught very early that if I didn't solve problems, I was headed for a very dark path. Problems were everywhere. Now, even if there are no problems, I look for problems. I'm like,...”

“The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and pa...”

“Most people, including many Jews, think of Yom Kippur as a 25-hour caffeine headache capped off by a lox-and-bagels binge. It's undeniably that. But it is also, at its deepest level, a dry r...”

“It is a tragedy indeed that new generations, taking office, attribute failures in governance to insufficient power, and seek more of it.”

“Everything in life is a story just waiting to be written.”

“To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.”

“My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.”

“The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.”

“Wizards are always hungry.”

“The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.”

“It's just like, damn - I'm competing with myself.”

“Watching well-meaning authors follow in the footsteps of someone going in the wrong direction breaks my heart.”