Every accepted public quote

“I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.”

“Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.”

“Art is an investigation.”

“My first concert - maybe it was 1979 - was a blur. I'm not sure whether it was Blue Oyster Cult/Cheap Trick/Pat Travers at San Jose Civic Auditorium or The Police/The Knack/Robert Johnson at...”

“When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.”

“I think to some degree one of the strengths of the high tech industry is that people are actually willing to tell you things. When I went to Novell, I didn't know how to be a CEO, so I went...”

“I'm in the highest bracket. There's no way that a 22-year-old should be hit for that amount of money when he's got his whole life ahead of him.”

“I'm a complete globalist. I think like a global CEO. But I'm an American. I run an American company. But in order for GE to be successful in the coming years, I've gotta sell my products in...”

“I've always been optimistic. And I have a feeling that it happened because of going to all those movies with my grandmother in the '40s because there was no cynicism.”

“I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.”

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

“My philosophy is: anyone or anything that gives you knowledge inspires you.”

“I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple.”

“I feel a lot of films that are shot digitally, even low-budget independent films, they look super slick now. Because the technology is so good that they look too good.”

“The greatest value among the objects of human property, not only among precious stones, is due to the diamond, for a long time known only to kings and even to very few of these.”

“I call myself a singer-songwriter influenced by the gospel and jazz tradition. Naturally, because of my lifestyle and love for nature, there's a lot of folk and Americana there because that'...”

“Eight months after graduating from Ryerson, there I was in West Berlin working with Marlene Dietrich and David Bowie and Kim Novak.”

“People think of the greatest home run hitters of all time and think of Babe Ruth; they don't think about that Warren Spahn hit more than anybody.”

“If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.”

“In a clown, we see what we do that makes us laugh and cry. I kept the white face, the tradition of the Pierrot. My clown became a romantic and stylized figure. I wanted to be an abstract and...”

“I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn't know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know?”

“I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair.”

“I'm so comfortable in my identity as a wrestler that if I never fought, it would never bother me one bit.”

“If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.”

“There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live more vividly than many men and women. There are phrases from literary wo...”

“I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the...”

“Trans issues are also environmental issues. They're also healthcare issues. They're also national security issues.”

“My parents emigrated from Poland in 1924 with my brother, who was a few months old. They were from a simple family of Polish Jews. They were looking, I suppose, for a better economic life an...”

“One of my pet peeves about Nashville is that it tends to be copycatted. I don't want to do that. I've got to be different.”

“The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.”

“I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.”

“Look around. The hantavirus is waiting for you. Ebola and the tropical rainforest is cooking up all kinds of brews to make sure that the population is kept in control. All these things are n...”

“Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.”

“There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no greater distinction between people.”

“I used to get called 'Ferrari' when I was a kid because I was always running everywhere.”

“I think the thing that our government lacks - just about more than anything else - is technological competence. We have some of the greatest white-hat hackers in the world here in the U.S.,...”

“I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always saw that as too lukewarm for me.”

“To world enough and time.”

“I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.”

“The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.”

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”

“I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too.”

“With anything in life, I think that's when you start stressing yourself out - when you start worrying about the things that are out of your control. What I can control is being at my best ev...”

“Proper British nannies put the child ahead of everything. They do not like to see children used as accessories, carried around in slings for the convenience of the parents' social life. They...”

“I'm like a little kid when it comes to music. I mean, the music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, 'It's too loud!' But I think music gives so much...”

“I have grown up on literature and mythological stories. They have fascinated me since childhood, and I believe every character that I portray on screen is an extension of my personality to s...”

“I told her running away from your problems doesn't solve anything. Really it just hurts the people who count on you.”

“A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.”