Every accepted public quote

“Seven years ago, when I started free soloing long, hard routes in Yosemite - climbing without a rope, gear or a partner - I did it because it seemed like the purest, most elegant way to scal...”

“I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it.”

“From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.”

“I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.”

“The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.”

“I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.”

“If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was”

“I am accused of using hard language. I admit the charge. I have not been able to find a soft word to describe villainy or to identify the perpetrator of it. The man who makes a chattel of hi...”

“When you're tanner, you feel hotter and sexier. You should try it.”

“People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn't hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time - I would say eight to 10 coo...”

“I keep being surprised by the amount of archaeological sites and features that are left to find all over the world.”

“If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.”

“Luckily for me, my views align with those of my constituents and party; the Liberal Democrats are unabashedly pro-European and are unapologetically up-front about our pursuit of a democratic...”

“An addict never stops growing. Stupider.”

“On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a computer programmer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.”

“Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.”

“Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.”

“Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.”

“A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.”

“I'm in remission. I need to get my physical conditioning to a higher level. I was always very fit. I need to get back to where I am very confident in my ability to bike a long way.”

“Coinbase is 'the' brand in the Bitcoin space. Their founder Brian Armstrong was amongst the first good entrepreneurs to emerge in this space. While others championed ideological or undergrou...”

“The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.”

“Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?”

“Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.”

“I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.”

“Supplying food to sub-Saharan African countries is made very complex because of a lack of infrastructure.”

“I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup...”

“Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level.”

“I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.”

“My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak English.”

“Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to mak...”

“I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.”

“Muses don't come by everyday and most of them have an expiration date”

“Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.”

“The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.”

“If you know the Lord as being on the cross, you are dead already, it is as though the Lord is still in the grave”

“Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.”

“I entertain for a living, and I entertain.”

“A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.”

“I am a woman, therefore I am a problem solver.”

“Smell is the shortest synaptic leap in the brain to our memory, and I'm amazed that people don't sniff everything.”

“If you meet your heroes, you're always going to be disappointed. Frederick Douglass was a great man, but would I want my daughter to marry him? Probably not. That doesn't mean that I don't t...”

“Vulnerability is the least celebrated emotion in our society”

“We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.”

“I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! H...”

“When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a...”

“At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.”

“Although the precariat does not consist simply of victims, since many in it challenge their parents' labouring ethic, its growth has been accelerated by the neoliberalism of globalisation, w...”