Every accepted public quote

“A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out...”

“I wouldn't want everybody to be an art or literature major, but the world would be poorer - figuratively, anyway - if we were all coding software or running companies. We also want musicians...”

“The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness.”

“I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.”

“Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.”

“Part of the joy of my career, for me, has been giving these iconic females a bit of shading of that unapologetic female vibe. I think it's an interesting approach.”

“I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.”

“I'm a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don't look like the typical reader. I'm in Barnes & Noble all the time, and you can look at people that look like they are supposed...”

“We've fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.”

“Charles Saatchi has never liked my work at all.”

“For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.”

“May God protect me from gloomy saints.”

“I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show of...”

“It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly e...”

“I feel a lot of support from the people of Penrith and the Blue Mountains and will always remember the amazing welcome home I received after the London Olympics. But more importantly, it's d...”

“Its either you choose to quit now and struggle for the rest of your life or you choose to struggle now, make all the sacrifices and be happy for the rest of your life.”

“A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.”

“The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources. Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-o...”

“There are many people who know nothing of a world in which we take the reality of the 'other' seriously. I'm running on that platform: other people in other countries are really, really real...”

“What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.”

“The danger of serialization is that you almost get into a monotone - where they all have the same beat and pace, and it's all one long thing - and when you can kind of do this interesting mi...”

“'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting...”

“At film festivals, I put on my sunglasses and go to sleep because I don't want to see my films again.”

“I entreat all artisans faithfully to follow their craft and take delight in it. I entreat all servants to be faithful servants of their masters and mistresses.”

“In a way, I feel it might be ill-mannered to try and top myself. The music I play is a ritual. Something that matters to people in a special way. I wouldn't want to interfere with that.”

“I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.”

“If the employees fundamentally trust the C.E.O., then communications will be vastly more efficient than if they don't. Telling things as they are is a critical part of building this trust.”

“I want people to think I'm a creative genius.”

“I didn't look at the previous 'A Wrinkle in Time' movie. I wrote ideas down from the book, but I didn't really want to copy that Meg. We're the same, but we're different at the same time. I...”

“The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.”

“When all else is lost, the future still remains.”

“We want kids to value real food and understanding that it isn't just about feeding people but about nourishing the body, the community and the planet.”

“I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.”

“The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lous...”

“Flowers grow out of dark moments.”

“Obviously, in a sport like golf, we see Tiger Woods fall off. There's not really too much damage he can take from that, although when you watch him and he sucks, and you're like, 'God, you u...”

“Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.”

“I'm a strong man of faith.”

“Harry Kane is one of the best strikers in the world.”

“If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.”

“Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.”

“There are going to be priorities and multiple dimensions of your life, and how you integrate that is how you find happiness.”

“You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other se...”

“When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believ...”

“My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.”

“You have enough people against you... be for yourself.”

“Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.”

“Rest assured that my support for any eventual reform package will be based firmly upon what is in the best interests of the people of Upstate New York, not any party or president.”