Every accepted public quote

“Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women.”

“Rehearsals are for gags.”

“My whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.”

“I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed peo...”

“We've had this program for a number of years now, called 10,000 Small Businesses, where Goldman Sachs has convened a group of partners to basically give business education to small business...”

“At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, bu...”

“I've always zoomed through life in a vain attempt to keep up with my sprinting brain. If I have to choose between doing something quickly and doing it right, I often select the speedier opti...”

“In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thin...”

“I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm...”

“God is a being who is himself the cause of his own existence. His prerogative is to perceive before there was anything to be perceived. He is the creator of the universe; He operated upon no...”

“I had one day with him, and he was asleep in the scene, but I told my entire family that I was in a scene with Michael Caine.”

“You see the things and ask, 'How To'? I dream the things and say, 'Why Not'?”

“If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.”

“I eat three meals a day and three juices a day.”

“While I used to make my living principally as a record producer, as time went on, I had to depend more and more on my live performances because of the evolution of the record industry, which...”

“The history of Oregon is partially the history of a state that legislated not wanting black people around.”

“We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year.”

“When I first joined the team, I was playing with the likes of Mia Hamm, Shannon MacMillan, Tiffeny Milbrett - all those big-time players. It was very intimidating. I had some of these player...”

“To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.”

“We don't have an off-season. Every other sport has an off-season. It just goes to show how tough we are.”

“My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer...”

“Just because you're married doesn't mean that you have to spend 24/7 together and can't have separate interests and hobbies. In a healthy relationship, you both understand - and respect - th...”

“I have a lot of nieces and nephews. I was always around kids. I was like the family babysitter because I was the only one that wasn't married.”

“I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom, Dick and Harry around the world, including a chap named Charlie who pl...”

“Never tell a woman how much you love her unless you are willing to show it.”

“I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.”

“Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.”

“I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.”

“In the district of Hizan, through the influence of Shaikh Abdurrahman Tagi, known as Seyda, so many students, teachers, and scholars emerged, I was sure all Kurdistan took pride in them and...”

“Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialist overlook by getting trapped in the purely ph...”

“I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.”

“We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely.”

“I have always wanted to open up a brewery slash goat farm. Brew some beer, make some goat cheese, but that's kinda dreamy.”

“For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but of power and of love and of calm and well balanced mind and discipline and self-control.”

“For some people, when you walk into a room, what your fame means to them can be like pointing a weird gun at them. It triggers something. They might get really giggly or flirty or cold or co...”

“It's fun playing small venues.”

“Every child is so different. Their experience growing up and their experience relating to the world has so much to do with their temperament, and their likes and their dislikes.”

“I've been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it'd be awesome to work with him. He's really kind, and he's been really encouraging when we've met.”

“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to writ...”

“I don't want to be a one-hit wonder.”

“It's not all about talent. It's about dependability, consistency, and being able to improve. If you work hard and you're coachable, and you understand what you need to do, you can improve.”

“I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmonton, but I definitely knew that music was what I was going to do with my life.”

“I want to do films and have my name mentioned next to Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino. I don't want my name mentioned next to other rappers at all.”

“I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens.”

“The first thing I do when I'm shopping is touch everything to see if it's itchy. I remember my mom used to put me in the itchiest clothes ever, and I was traumatized by it, so I won't wear a...”

“Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.”

“Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa.”

“I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts.”