Every accepted public quote

“The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.”

“Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.”

“Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off bec...”

“History seems to be so clumsy.”

“I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.”

“You can't get through medical school if you don't have a strong will and a strong constitution.”

“The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.”

“It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself.”

“I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.”

“New York is the greatest city in the world.”

“When I chose to do 'Carrie,' I never had done anything on camera before. I was always onstage, so everything surprised me. Just going on set and walking into a makeup trailer and seeing Chlo...”

“Commercial success and quality are not necessarily allied.”

“Go back to the very beginning, when we first started playing in local pubs. We used to play Chuck Berry covers. Every now and then, we'd slip in one of our own songs, and we found that we we...”

“Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.”

“I think we love the escapism of something like 'Cinderella,' and I think we do with 'Thor.'”

“I've been lucky because I've had wonderful teachers along the way who have nurtured and pushed me to the next level.”

“I've never seen a film get away completely unscathed like I have 'Animal Kingdom.' There's not a single bad review that I've read of it yet; all through Sundance, all it got was high praise.”

“Then suddenly the Roman liturgy disappeared as we knew it.”

“I miss how a record label can help spread the word that you have something out.”

“I have, since the age of about 2, been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses. And I have, since the age of 10, when I was first taken to a mental hospital for evaluation and then...”

“Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason.”

“I like to have fun with my videos and performances, that's the most fun part when it comes to the music. I get to show off my character.”

“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”

“Viewing the earth from above gives you this sense of how special the planet is that we live on.”

“Our home in Dubai is a beach house, so it's more casual and not formal in its tone. It's a holiday home. We are mostly in the pool or on the beach or in the sun. It's an outdoor place for th...”

“The burden is equal to the horse's strength.”

“Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?”

“You gotta be able to take criticism if you want to be anything close to great. Even if it's not true. You use that as an advantage for yourself. You can use that negative energy and turn tha...”

“We need a memorial day to commemorate the victims of neoliberal globalization.”

“Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in...”

“I don't have one geographic location that I'm exclusively loyal to.”

“I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on he...”

“Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ's modern miracles. If it hasn't happe...”

“I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs...”

“Lennox Lewis is a hater of Tyson Fury.”

“My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.”

“Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time...”

“When I was younger, I was chubby. It gave me a terrible sense of self-image, and I guess I carry that around with me still.”

“Why so serious?”

“When we say two bodies 'touch', what we mean (without knowing it) is that both electromagnetic fields are interacting to avoid physical interpenetration and ... that happens well before suba...”

“When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.”

“There's been a lot of role reversal going on in the band. The roles people have been playing for a long time will always be there, but everybody's willing to try on different outfits.”

“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”

“I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it.”

“When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.”

“Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors...”

“Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.”

“The portraits, of more historical than artistic interest, had gone; and tapestry, full of the blue and bronze of peacocks, fell over the doors, and shut out all history and activity untouche...”