Every accepted public quote

“Berlin inspired Bowie and stirred him to write about real, important matters.”

“Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing...”

“One of the biggest complaints readers have about my work is that I don't tell them often enough what they can do. I do think this is an area where journalism sometimes falls short. We descri...”

“The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.”

“True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense...”

“Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.”

“There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.”

“To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.”

“In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around wi...”

“To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.”

“In 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' protagonist Winston Smith works at a propaganda department for the state called the 'Ministry of Truth,' where inconvenient news can be discarded down a 'memory ho...”

“If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.”

“When someone has great qualities, sometimes they don't have to put much effort into things.”

“The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former . ....”

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.”

“The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.”

“In addition to showing our customers what to wear, we also educated them on how to wear it by launching The Closet and utilizing the beauty bar, where our style experts provided videos with...”

“I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.”

“'What It Is' was based on this class I've been teaching for 10 years - I wanted to write a book about writing that didn't mention stuff like story structure, protagonists, and all those thin...”

“When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy. Because it's the same thing that happened to me as a child. When I first heard t...”

“I live in the social purgatory of the San Fernando Valley, while my eldest daughter is bused to a charter school in the fantasy land of Bel Air.”

“They communicated without words from the most primitive part of the soul. I remembered her laughing about this, saying that she felt like an animal, and how she realized that we are less hum...”

“By the end of his life, one has a far easier time picturing Hugh Hefner buying his girlfriend a comfy pair of slippers than one of the satin corsets the Bunnies used to wear.”

“I have to make those tight-window throws, and trying to make those plays is the reason I have had success.”

“I believe, you know, as history unfolds, certain films will disappear, and certain ones will stand the test of time. And you never know which ones those are. And you've just got to go for th...”

“Teenagers ultimately don't mind belonging to a group, because there's always the opportunity to eventually become someone new. The elderly, by definition, are running out of opportunities fo...”

“You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yourself through education.”

“Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wisdom, and, although they are often ready to play the buffoon to amuse you, such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise.”

“We underestimate children and the people who work with them. I swear - so often, I tell people I am a children's author, and it's like they want to pat me on the head: 'Aw, isn't that sweet....”

“I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.”

“Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.”

“There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.”

“In friendship, bond not with a shallow man.”

“Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.”

“The first time I played in front of a live audience, I realised I wanted to be a musician. I was about four years old and had always liked music.”

“If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the dec...”

“I had an amazing time at Chelsea. I can't pinpoint to a specific event, but the best moment was the honour of signing for Chelsea because I was proud to be at such a club.”

“There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.”

“Wisdom is the insightful quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment.”

“My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, every seamstress, part of 'The Newsroom' or 'The West Wing' or 'Steve Jobs.'”

“When I gave birth to my son, something happened. It is a huge thing for a woman: a whole set of emotions you never had before arrives, and a love you never had before in your life is now on...”

“This whole thing has become a pantomime.”

“You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest...”

“As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove myself on pilots. And as you know, many pilots are taped for e...”

“You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.”

“If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.”

“Consider with thyself; as the rain is more than the drops, and as the fire is greater than the smoke; but the drops and the smoke remain behind: so the quantity which is past did more exceed...”

“I'm an old Coltrane disciple just like I'm a Christian.”