Every accepted public quote

“Television is, in many respects, a passive medium: people receive information without really exchanging ideas with others. By contrast, the Internet can be an active medium, allowing individ...”

“Life is a lifetime lesson.”

“Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to dis...”

“For me, it's clear Beyonce sees herself as a part of the movement for black lives and believes that black lives matter - and ultimately, that's what matters.”

“Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.”

“I'm happy that good works by young artists with limited chances will see the light of day by my purchasing them.”

“When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.”

“I'm always going to have the puppets, probably not for the rest of my life, but I'm not going to stop doing ventriloquism anytime soon. I'm just going to add singing, recording songs, and ma...”

“I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with...”

“If you want to have more options as an actor, you just need to watch your weight, and I've ignored that fact for several years quite happily. Now the chicks have come home to roost.”

“The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.”

“You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.”

“Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.”

“A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which...”

“After a performance, I met the man who would later be my acting coach who helped me get into my acting conservatory. It was apparent to me that there were many others who were in support of...”

“I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.”

“Every system I have in my house or my car, they're all tuned exactly the same.”

“When it's show time, no matter what, differences are put to the side, and we come together to put on the best show possible because we are all professionals. Our love and passion for what we...”

“Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.”

“I sort of knew I was a bit of a drama queen. I always threw tantrums, so I knew I wasn't a normal child.”

“It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.”

“The Internet gives you access to a lot of material, and it's fun to sit and read. I go to something like Wikipedia and look at different topics... I find the subject fascinating. I like to r...”

“I love to go to the bar close by for a good espresso and have a chat with the bartender.”

“The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.”

“While a lot of management development books try to teach you a lesson or give you a scenario of what corporate culture and work practices are about, they're theoretical and written in a serm...”

“Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.”

“You must be able to bring relevance to people”

“Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.”

“I'm a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what's wrong and fixing it.”

“In times of war, starvation, hunger and injustice, such tragedy can only be put aside if you allow yourself to be uplifted through music, film and dance.”

“Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.”

“There's not a throw that Tom Brady can make that Aaron Rodgers can't, but there are several throws that Aaron Rodgers can make that Tom Brady only dreams of making.”

“We played a festival in Ireland once, and in the middle of 'New Slang,' the Scissor Sisters kicked in across the field on this mega stage. It was a little distracting. It was hard to keep tr...”

“Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.”

“Where there is a will, there is a balcony of possibilities.”

“Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often.”

“There is nothing wrong with wanting to publish - or read - books that have a wide potential audience. But it does generate a certain plodding sameness of tone and subject matter that plagues...”

“The question is whether voters, particularly independents, believe that Obama truly values personal liberty and responsibility as much as the government-bought safety net.”

“Most blockchain platforms don't share that much in common, resulting in choice lock-ins, lack of interoperability, and potentially dead-ends that are hard to untangle.”

“Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky.”

“They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.”

“I'm interested in the things that might seem slight or amusing but which I feel have a kind of profundity.”

“The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the informat...”

“I am against discrimination of any kind, but if I make snap judgments, no matter who it's towards, aren't I committing the same sin as someone who profiles?”

“I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.”

“The cruellest lies are often told in silence.”

“I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.”

“Most people would rather give than get affection.”