Every accepted public quote

“I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.”

“Eugene Levy is my closest friend.”

“It's no longer possible to think of the physical and digital as two different worlds.”

“Jiu Jitsu opened up doors in my mind that public education had bolted shut. In hindsight, I see just how superficial my thoughts had been prior to this art. It is no coincidence that my effo...”

“In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate w...”

“When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.”

“Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.”

“I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawin...”

“I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.”

“I used to have a monthly cookery column, and am a big cook, so that whole sense of connecting what one does with food to one's cultural identity has always been fascinating to me.”

“That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.”

“We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their o...”

“There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.”

“I need to tone up, as I eat a lot of fast food. I love Maccy D's, Subway and Domino's.”

“If I heard a noise at night, I'd think there was a burglar sneaking around; the first thing I'd do was check on my guitar.”

“In the single group format, where each team plays against the other, it gives a chance to the established outfits to make a comeback if they falter in the early games.”

“That's the thing about awards - it's for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them.”

“The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his...”

“The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge.”

“A force field is basically an invisible shield. You push a button and all of a sudden a bubble forms around you which is impenetrable. It can stop bullets, it can stop ray gun blasts and we...”

“To me, involvement with news is absolutely inebriating. It's what makes my life exciting.”

“Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.”

“Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.”

“Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.”

“If you have company-owned stores, you make 100 percent of the profit from each one, but you have less entrepreneurial spirit.”

“I speak to my mum and dad about the club, and my uncle and all my mates are big Leeds fans as well. They're on the up, if you like. It's a better situation than it was when they were in Leag...”

“If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”

“Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.”

“What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significan...”

“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.”

“Never short of guns and guerrillas, Afghanistan has proven fertile ground for a host of insurgent groups in addition to the Taliban.”

“I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.”

“I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.”

“I value my privacy a lot.”

“You can't live like a monk if you have two five-year-old twins. That ain't happening. Just the opposite, actually.”

“It was him, it was always him, they only needed to stand there with their feet buried into the muddy moss and look at each other; to feel each other. Time stopped, movement disappeared and i...”

“I insulted people. I had to - they deserved it. They didn't have any talent. They stunk. They were horrible! But it made it for a fun show.”

“There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit...”

“Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.”

“I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro - pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you're going in your career by the company you keep.”

“We long to have a home where civil freedoms are respected, where our children will not be subject to mass surveillance, abuse of human rights, political censorship and mass incarceration.”

“Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.”

“My insurance provider probably wouldn't allow me to go into a mosh pit anymore. My brain is insured by Lloyd's of London, you know what I'm saying?”

“I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles,...”

“The dog is a reflection of your energy, of your behavior. You have to ask, 'What am I doing?' That's the right question to ask.”

“I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.”

“I do laugh when I hear myself saying, 'I am a ventriloquist.' I am definitely suited to it, though. I took it and ran with it quite hungrily. It is not for everyone, but it is just the chanc...”

“Back in the days of the Smiths, when we first started touring England - this is, like, 1984 - there were these two girls. They were literally vicar's daughters, and they used to follow us to...”