Every accepted public quote

“I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it's such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it's therap...”

“What happened in the region in the last 30 years is not the Middle East. After the Iranian revolution in 1979, people wanted to copy this model in different countries; one of them is Saudi A...”

“There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.”

“Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less mo...”

“Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.”

“I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of their world, they need a safe vessel for all their fears. Zombies...”

“The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.'”

“Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal wit...”

“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.”

“Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.”

“Everyone succumbs to finitude. I suspect I am not the only one who reaches this pluperfect state. Most ambitions are either achieved or abandoned; either way, they belong to the past. The fu...”

“It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.”

“Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Th...”

“Happy is the heart of the king when gifts come to him. And when every foreign land [comes], that is our success, that is our fortune. What shall we do about it ? All is ruin!”

“But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.”

“Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.”

“Nobody wants to look like a fool. Nine times out of ten, that reason alone keeps people from allowing themselves to believe.”

“You do not love me; you love my success!”

“I'm not saying that hip-hop needs gay rappers or anything, but they need to stop being so close-minded because that will just cause the genre to fail. Look at pop. Pop doesn't discriminate a...”

“Transforming a brand into a socially responsible leader doesn't happen overnight by simply writing new marketing and advertising strategies. It takes effort to identify a vision that your cu...”

“The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.”

“These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.”

“The last watch I wore felt like a handcuff. When I need to know the time, I check my cell phone.”

“Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile caval...”

“I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the embers of the last copy.”

“I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.”

“Kudos to Lindsey, for sure, for us not doing a replica of 'Rumours.'”

“Remember the nights, you were sitting here alone, no one there for you but your smart phone”

“I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.”

“I often find in the film world, that it's very self-referring. If you talk to someone about films, they talk about them in terms of other films - rather than as something that happened to th...”

“We're expanding the brand. Bojana and I are indeed awaiting our second child. We're very excited.”

“Aggression is not a breed thing. It's a state of mind, and it comes from how the human is with the dog. There are four levels of energy, regardless of the breed: low, medium, high, very high...”

“It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.”

“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.”

“Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.”

“We must have the approach of 'zero tolerance' against any type of terrorism.”

“I would like to work with Todd Phillips of 'The Hangover'. I would like to do more comedies; it would be a lot of fun. No actors in particular. I don't consciously seek out things to do.”

“When you're on a raft, you pray like in a foxhole.”

“What is a nightstand without Mindy Kaling? I dip into her 'Why Not Me?' when I've had a particularly rough day. Her hilarious observations and anecdotes never fail to cheer me up.”

“Well this is aptly called a junket, for both of us. I have never been to a house of prostitution, but I understand that you get in more than seven minutes.”

“People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The truth is you're talking about a b...”

“Encryption provides enormous benefits to society by enabling secure communications, data storage, and online transactions.”

“I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses o...”

“I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.”

“Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways.”

“Ignorance is not innocence but sin.”

“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite o...”

“The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power.”