Every accepted public quote

“We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the i...”

“Yes, anally retentive men are my forte!”

“That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to h...”

“I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.”

“When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV...”

“I've been in a lot of different arenas of life.”

“But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some practice I had adopted the prevaricator's credo that one doesn't so much fabrica...”

“There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.”

“The fool wanders, a wise man travels.”

“Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had deteriorated to the status of a failed state. We must wipe the slate clean and start again.”

“Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.”

“Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it's the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that.”

“Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.”

“'Divorce Court' is a great show.”

“'Noah' is about a man whose mission is to obliterate Earth's past and godfather its future. Replacing the word 'God' with 'Creator' and taking other scriptural liberties, the movie risks con...”

“To Lovers out there.... Some people think being single is an achievement and it means they are good, innocent people.Inside their heart. They have someone they love whom, they rejected or ar...”

“Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that...”

“America has always imported history.”

“Laughter is a Trojan horse to enter into direct contact with the unconscious, strike the imagination, and trigger visceral reactions.”

“I love 'Paranormal Activity' and 'The Exorcist.' 'The Shining' is a great one too, but there's not a lot that scares me. Maybe it's because I know the other side of it, and I know how movies...”

“Our culture is a very diverse one, and I think now it is incredibly dangerous and very wrong to persecute Muslims and say there is something wrong with being a Muslim.”

“Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.”

“Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.”

“Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint.”

“In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.”

“Writers like to feel sorry for themselves, which is easy to do in private, but when called on to feel sorry for ourselves in social situations, we will often do so by sharing terrible book t...”

“The period of time just before you awaken is the time I have my most creative thoughts and discover the best solutions.”

“A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.”

“I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still...”

“Manifesting is a lot like making a cake. The things needed are supplied by you, the mixing is done by your mind and the baking is done in the oven of the universe.”

“The black community is broken up in general.”

“The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.”

“You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative.”

“As the U.S. ambassador to Japan, I see this challenge of our younger generations not knowing each other as well as the prior generations.”

“It is good to have an intellectual awareness of our dependence upon God - to understand how great He is and how very small we are in His sight.”

“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.”

“'Freaks and Geeks' was my favorite show when it was on, by a wide measure. And that's the show I wanted to do. I noodled with the idea of doing a show about teenagers that told small stories...”

“The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came and we had a great meeting. I'd love to do that. I'm a fan of videogames. I like them. And to get to be part of one o...”

“Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not...”

“I remember looking up to most any venture capitalist as someone who could make my little company happen with a single million-dollar check.”

“Xerox's innovative technology and service offerings - delivered through an expanding distribution system with a lean and flexible business model - continue to solidify our market leadership,...”

“Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things I had learned while I was away from the band. It sort of vindicated my deci...”

“Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart.”

“If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor...”

“The reason inflation was brought down to manageable levels, by the time of Ronald Reagan's re-election, was directly attributable to Jimmy Carter's very courageous act, hiring a Federal Rese...”

“I love that song 'I Could Have Danced All Night' from 'My Fair Lady' so much. I love that song because watching it as a kid, it was such an unbridled expression of joy.”

“This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal.”

“No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50.”