Every accepted public quote

“Firstly, should we be selling and buying irradiated meat? I think that's up to the consumer, ultimately. But the second point is, this irradiated meat should be clearly and unmistakably labe...”

“Free from the shackles of the E.U. - and an automatic right of entry for their citizens, with or without work - we will be able to give the type of preference to brilliant scientists, academ...”

“I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.”

“I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.”

“No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each.”

“Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservativ...”

“I've got a full life.”

“The society of women is the foundation of good manners.”

“That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to d...”

“I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film...”

“It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.”

“Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.”

“I feel like the Cal Ripkin of rock n' roll.”

“The things I cook and eat on a regular basis are really inexpensive.”

“Documentary makers use other people's lives as their raw material, and that is morally indefensible.”

“I was in school with Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa's son, and we had a band. Only in L.A. could stuff like that happen. We would hang out in Frank Zappa's studio, and we released a single in 19...”

“Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.”

“Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.”

“From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.”

“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”

“Spend from your energy to help the ones you rescued, to stand, to walk, to fly. Don't marry them. They will drain your charge and not know what else to do. Be with the ones who reciprocate y...”

“Warming is incontrovertible, so in general, you're going to have more droughts, more fires. So I think events like that are the best thing that could happen for righting our ship and getting...”

“My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my grandfather had bought just before World War II and donated to our family after seeing how interested we w...”

“I'm not feeling undertaxed. Tax reform is an important issue. You have to have an inherent sense of fairness.”

“The sun rising on the horizon is more than a good sign; it's a powerful omen to say that we can still hope and dream. Every day is a new chance to change and make it better for a brighter fu...”

“In order to align your life choices with your values, you will need to inquire about the effects of your actions (and inactions) on yourself and others. Although we are always stumbling upon...”

“I'm at work by 8 or 8:30, and when I get home every night, my wife and I walk around the lawn. We have dinner together, and then we spend most of our evenings alone.”

“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”

“When I was younger, my mum used to dress me in, like, lime green leggings with a matching neon jumper and hair scrunch, so I'd say I've definitely progressed since then in terms of style.”

“When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.”

“Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.”

“It is an ignorant place, except as to the townspeople, artisans, drunkards, and paupers, she said, perverse still at his differing from her. They see life as it is, of course; but few of the...”

“Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately...”

“I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that... we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and... preposterous.”

“Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.”

“My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.”

“I was never sent to Kashmir on any secret mission. I want to make that position clear.”

“We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work fo...”

“Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.”

“You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.”

“And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is...”

“I've been a much happier person in my early thirties than I was in my twenties.”

“Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.”

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

“Gray skies are just clouds passing over.”

“I'm this high school dropout. I quit in my sophomore year, when I was 15. I worked for a while in a deli, and when I was almost 17, I got married.”

“I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or...”

“I love all of my books. They were labors of love; I was striving to create something well done, and I do feel I succeeded.”