Every accepted public quote

“To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.”

“When I read that Khal Drogo role, I was blown away. I couldn't believe it was happening. I had to have that role.”

“Censorship is advertising paid by the government.”

“I don't see a big difference between the job of directing a low-budget movie and the job of directing a big-budget movie.”

“He's so sophisticated... Kanye is like 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' he's interesting, so you want to be around him.”

“You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius a...”

“I would say the more significant factor of my starting late is that I developed a sufficiently thick skin to be able to - just about - handle the knocks that a fledgling comedian takes.”

“I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.”

“My parents are not of this world. I've had to work multiple jobs, been in a position where I cannot pay off student loans.”

“Yes, but more than being a designer, I'm more of a stylist, because I don't sew and I don't sketch, but I'm good at putting things together, choosing things that are chic and glossing over t...”

“Love is stronger than lust.”

“You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.”

“At United, we like to have wingers who give the team width and pace.”

“With time, everything changes, and there is nothing wrong in that.”

“I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so my academic background from childhood is a strong one, a good one.”

“In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.”

“When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.”

“Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.”

“In Denmark, when you marry, whether you have $1 million or just $10, you share it.”

“There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.”

“I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimen...”

“Have you ever played a video game that didn't have escalating levels of difficulty? Well, life can feel like play, too, when we purposefully engage in activities that demand we test and deve...”

“I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the fi...”

“In the Saudi system, women are considered inferior. No matter our age, we have male guardians. We must get permission from men to attend school, to work, to marry, to travel overseas - even...”

“Those who limit themselves with imaginary boxes of being close to home and always inside their comfort zone. What is the fun and romance in that”

“Women all over this great land are creating spaces just for themselves, most often out of sheds in their backyards. They're fantasy cottages, bespoke bungalows, 'mama maisons,' if you will,...”

“If I could spit out a litter of kids, I would.”

“The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her own means of expression.”

“You want to know how to navigate life? Don't live and die by the beliefs you had when you were young. Everything changes, that's what you learn when you've lived as long as I have. The worst...”

“I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.”

“Modern society is defined by an excess of opportunity. We have more information, more products, and more options than ever before. As a result, curating, filtering, and refining are more imp...”

“David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk.”

“I don't disagree with seeing a Rubens of a nude body, but I don't believe in a nude body in action. With Rubens, thank goodness, they aren't in action.”

“I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be a...”

“Mozambique and Zimbabwe must bring into being a new force in Malawi. We must not allow South Africa to set the course in Malawi... The victory is being planned... It demands cold-bloodedness...”

“Anonymity is a wonderful thing if you can hang on to it. I live in Pasadena where we try to keep the movie people out. We discourage them from moving in our neighborhood and if they do we bu...”

“I have been able to attend many technology conferences around the world over the years, including some of the largest, like Google I/O, Microsoft's Developer Conference, Apple's WorldWide De...”

“I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition; I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the s...”

“It just takes one candle to light a room...and one candle to light a thousand more.”

“I saw 'Avatar' and liked it very much. It was a great achievement.”

“I'm a prankster with a Monty Python sense of humor that somehow gets misrepresented in those tacky supermarket publications as bratty, snotty, and rude.”

“Listening to Dr. King on the radio inspired me. Coming under the influence of Jim Lawson inspired me to think that I, too, could do something.”

“I love classical music, but I hated classical guitar. But I like flamenco, because there was something else there going on. It wasn't just the notes being thrown at you. And there were certa...”

“It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to gr...”

“We know that there are people in our nation, black people, who are systematically being disenfranchised in a number of spheres in our lives.”

“Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.”

“In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop ec...”

“I just finished a novel called 'Exult,' by Joe Quirk, last night. It's about hang gliding. I liked his first book, too, 'The Ultimate Rush.' I now know that I never, ever, ever want to go ha...”