Every accepted public quote

“The biggest mistake to me is complacency.”

“It used to take me a really long time, and I used to not be able to write in the studio because I felt there was a lot of pressure to be perfect. The more I'm collaborating with other artist...”

“Sometimes we postpone releases because of another big film or some other reasons. In the end, the big film, too, postpones, and the impact is on the small films. So once you decide on a rele...”

“Channing Tatum. He's a cutie-pie, but he's also got swag. Before him, my crush was Brad Pitt forever!”

“Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.”

“To be a CEO is a calling. You should not do it because it is a job. It is a calling, and you have got to be involved in it with your head, heart and hands. Your heart has got to be in the jo...”

“Scriptural knowledge is knowledge that has form (murta gnan). Formless knowledge (amurta gnan) is found in formless language. All that is perceived through the senses is knowledge that has f...”

“Women like my shoes because they look good on them, not because they look good on the rack.”

“To achieve a successful transition, we don't just have to remove Maduro. We also have to rescue our institutions themselves. That's why we have set out three phases: ending Maduro's usurpati...”

“A deep, black grief gripped Robert Kennedy in the months following his brother's assassination. He lost weight, fell into melancholy silences, wore his brother's clothes, smoked the cigars h...”

“I revisit old favorites like 'Buffy' and 'Battlestar Galactica' when I'm bored. I am obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love TV.”

“Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.”

“One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.”

“Why do we need to support the food stamp program? Because low-income families experience unemployment at a far higher rate than other income groups. Because cutting nutritional assistance pr...”

“My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was supposed to be and I was determined not to be.”

“Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.”

“I don't want to spend my life on an ice cube.”

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.”

“Before you die, please share your love with the unknown immortal existence which is in your body and unite with the divine to live in godliness after you die....”

“That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible.”

“But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense of inner worth and meaning, and spend a lot...”

“It is beautiful how every single time I look at the sky, the moon, the constellations and the stars changing their position, I see hope.”

“I don't want to stick a sticking plaster on it, I don't want to fix children once the system's broken them, I want to give every child the opportunity before that - because the system should...”

“It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.”

“I enjoyed working with Stephen Merchant. He was wonderful. I've been such a big fan of his acting.”

“If you're in the WWE, it's like show business boot camp. You learn a little bit about everything as far as show business is involved.”

“I've done everything - weight-lifting, Pilates, crossfit, martial arts, gymnastics - but I think the most important workout, at least for me these days, is a mental one.”

“There is a short window at the beginning of one's professional life, when it is comparatively easy to take big risks. Make the most of that time, before circumstances make you risk averse.”

“A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph w...”

“I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tom...”

“Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.”

“I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price.”

“In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.”

“We are Indians, firstly and lastly.”

“Sufferers of depression have 'episodes' the same way those who suffer from multiple sclerosis do. It comes, wipes the floor with you, and then somehow returns you to the world. But it comes...”

“I've always been an extremist. Some of us have very addictive personalities, and for some of us, that mechanism gets tripped up. Mine certainly did. I'm not cured. You never are. The recover...”

“I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape...”

“I used to ride motorbikes and drive cars like everything was a racetrack; it was ridiculous. It wasn't because I thought it was cool; it was just because I loved living on the edge. But I've...”

“Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes.”

“There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.”

“There is wisdom in always exploring the counterpoint- sometimes a silver cloud has a dark lining too.”

“I have a sketch of an idea and I never really talk about: perhaps do another jazz record, but with other elements involved.”

“I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.”

“Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.”

“Astonishment is the root of philosophy.”

“Fear runs our lives. It doesn't matter who you are. You have to understand your relationship with fear. Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a conf...”

“Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.”

“I love Katharine Hepburn. I love Liesl in 'The Sound of Music.' I love Julie Andrews. I love Audrey Hepburn.”