Every accepted public quote

“A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.”

“We must continue working to build trust between communities and law enforcement. We must continue working to guarantee every person in this country equal justice under the law. And we must t...”

“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”

“There was one time I wrestled Eddie Guerrero in a ladder match for the custody of my son.”

“Hug the shore; let others try the deep.”

“I used to go round to my granddad's house on a Saturday morning, and we'd sit and eat our porridge and watch re-runs of 'Steptoe and Son' on BBC Two. I thought it was hilarious - and Rag 'N'...”

“Humility is an essential quality in writers who want to write well.”

“I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.”

“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”

“In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear...”

“Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.”

“The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.”

“The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had alrea...”

“She was his favorite sin. She was not a habit for him anymore, she was an obsession.”

“To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.”

“After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I'm just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting.”

“When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.”

“I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.”

“Braising eggs in a flavoursome, aromatic sauce is all the rage. It is warming and comforting, ideal for the morning when you are not normally up for a great culinary challenge.”

“I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself. I didn't have to go to the gym for all those years, all the hours wedded to the iron game, as we call it.”

“One way that whites protect their positions when challenged on race is to invoke the discourse of self-defense. Through this discourse, whites characterize themselves as victimized, slammed,...”

“The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.”

“Men like Sunil Dutt should not be mourned, only envied for their greatness.”

“My closet is like Bart Simpson's.”

“The first big long-form work I did in comics was 'Scalped' for Vertigo, which ran for 60 issues.”

“I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.”

“I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.”

“You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.”

“One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'”

“I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.”

“Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.”

“Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have t...”

“This healthy eating stuff, it's here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve.”

“What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to d...”

“I am so proud that 'Up' is Pixar's 10th film. I think it's the funniest film that we've ever made and also one of the most beautiful.”

“Anything that Havoc or I do is always going to point back to Mobb Deep.”

“I see a bright, bright future for the Republican Party and conservatism in general.”

“I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what's going on.”

“Over the course of history, governments, political regimes, and leaders have done some stupid things despite all arguments to the contrary, at times even against their own self-interest.”

“One of my friends started a company in 1997, seven years before Facebook, called SocialNet. And they had all these ideas, and you could be, like, a cat, and I'd be a dog on the Internet, and...”

“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.”

“You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.”

“Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans; so are its resources.”

“'Motherwort.' 'Great Leopard's Bane.' These are awesome band names.”

“I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.”

“In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the...”

“Legislation must be passed which undoes the damage caused by excessive de-regulation. That means reinstalling the regulatory firewalls that were ripped down in 1999.”

“I think me and Macklemore exist in two different worlds.”