Every accepted public quote

“Second-generation Muslims who have lived all their lives in Europe are turning up among the suicide bombers and terrorists.”

“Whether you know or not, you are the infinite potential of love, peace and joy”

“I think that people like Bloomberg, they're complete thugs. No question about it. But on the other hand, it must be said that they are politically savvy. They don't get into those positions...”

“I think I've been through all the phases of the sport. I won, I lost, I got injured. Now I get to do what I love, with my truth, without worrying about what people will say or things like th...”

“It is definitely true that adversity and hardship are not evenly distributed.”

“When a film is successful, you don't need to shout about it from the rooftops. I don't believe in going into overdrive. There's no desperation to be acknowledged as the reason for a film's s...”

“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”

“By the time I started doing stand-up, the club scene had died.”

“People can't get their heads round the idea of a species surviving; you know, they're more concerned about how you treat a donkey in Sicily or something.”

“I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.”

“I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the s...”

“I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in the corner eating lunch by herself.”

“Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.”

“Tennis players have the ugliest feet.”

“She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.”

“I am paid a good amount of money to not blink for 12 hours. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.”

“I'm at Stoke, I'm enjoying it, it's not my fault and I shouldn't be discriminated against just because who I play for.”

“War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.”

“I feel like if you see five films not knowing who made them, you know which one is the Coen Brothers.”

“When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.”

“One of the great things about the 'Iron Man' franchise is that they employ fascinating actors who don't necessarily do action movies. Before 'Iron Man' you didn't associate Robert Downey, Jr...”

“Diversity is not just about the differences you like.”

“I'm a conservative because I believe in peace - real peace, not just the peace of mind. I'm a conservative because we understand that real peace comes from the Marine Corps, not the Peace Co...”

“I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.”

“After the pancreatic cancer, at first I went to N.I.H. every three months, then every four months, then every six months.”

“The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.”

“I think I'm always subconsciously trying to write the ideal school play. Lots of parts for everybody, great parts for women - don't forget, more girls try out than boys in the school play; e...”

“Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to...”

“I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.”

“There has never been a failure of a currency board anywhere in the world. These are tough systems, and when I say they are foolproof, that's exactly the case.”

“I was a screenwriting major at Georgetown, and I was in class with some really strong writers like Jonathan Nolan, who co-wrote 'The Dark Knight' with Chris, his brother. He wrote 'The Prest...”

“I'm pretty blessed when it comes to clear skin. I owe that to being Cape Verdian. My whole family has great skin. My grandfather is 80 but doesn't look a day over 50. And we all love the sun...”

“I think the thing I've always tried to do is - and I didn't plan it, it just started to come out that way - is try to make challenging music that flirts with accessibility.”

“You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.”

“By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I wa...”

“I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write wha...”

“My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that was masculinity: big hairy sweaty guys who could pick up a bus.”

“Look back on Time, with kindly eyes - He doubtless did his best - How softly sinks that trembling sun In Human Nature's West -”

“We should show Washington how we do it in North Dakota. I'm running to stop the over-regulating of our economy and start growing it.”

“What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.”

“As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.”

“I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive.”

“When I was a kid, and God was talking to me about music, I was like, 'Okay, I'll sing mainstream music,' because I was afraid to sing Christian music to alienate my friends. Honestly, it was...”

“Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.”

“The formula of life is simple. It is the formula of giving - giving courage, attention, peace, love and comfort to yourself and the society.”

“Hip-hop is a collage. It samples from all different styles of music.”

“I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from...”

“To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used...”