Every accepted public quote

“Politically it's easy to salve one's conscience, no matter that salving it rarely makes the problem go away. You join the Labour Party, write articles attacking the privileged, give the mone...”

“I'm a girl, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate greatness and the struggle of sports. My situation - and I've always said this, even in politics - is may the best man win. I'm not team-...”

“I'm a very happy, optimistic person.”

“You got to earn your buckets and earn your respect.”

“I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.”

“'I Think We're Alone Now' just makes people feel good. It became a teen anthem twice. How cool is that?”

“I didn't know a soul when I got to New York, and I felt really displaced. The first week I was euphoric, and then I realized how isolating the city can be.”

“I never really thought I was a method actor or anything like that.”

“New York apartments are notoriously small, and my cute little studio is no exception - space is at a premium, which is one of the reasons that I only have a mini-fridge. Great for leftovers,...”

“Genius is only great patience.”

“If I should be available to everyone, I will eventually end up with nothing to give to anyone. So the greatest gift you can receive from me is my time. Count yourself lucky if I give you a m...”

“There's no master plan; I'm just going with what I'm inspired to do and what I get asked to do, and luckily the things I've been the most passionate about, I've gotten to do. And a lot of ti...”

“In the end, so much of what I wanted to do was to have a body of work that exhaustively looked at black American notions of masculinity: how we look at black men - how they're perceived in p...”

“'Eleanor' was so much fun to write, because there's a brutal honesty about her. She's got no filters and no concept of social norms.”

“As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition - of the conventional politics of national self-in...”

“Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.”

“My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light.”

“Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and...”

“You can be both progressive and want to get things done - they're not mutually exclusive and that's what I bring.”

“Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.”

“To be known for anything, but my mind would be a catastrophic legacy, in my mind.”

“When I graduated from college, I tried my hardest to get a job at an accounting firm, and it just wasn't meant to be. I ended up delivering pizzas and newspapers. I knew my life was cracked...”

“If you are going to be an experiment, be your own.”

“No one writes as slowly as I do, I'm convinced. It's so hard for me. I learn slowly; I make decisions at a snail's pace.”

“I'll read a book. I'll watch a documentary or a film or whatever. I'll go to an art exhibit and just try and open myself to influence.”

“Even a burglar hesitates to go back for more.”

“My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just as much as it does to any of the white race... in some ways even more so, be...”

“When I was 11, I developed a new symptom - the worst one yet: I had to touch people before I talked to them. When I say 'had to,' that's exactly what I mean: if I didn't touch them first, I...”

“The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.”

“I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates r...”

“The significant disparity in work opportunities for people with disabilities is the direct result of government programs and policies that propagate dependency.”

“If soggy, baked choux can be re-crisped in a hot oven for several minutes.”

“There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.”

“Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.”

“I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self.”

“The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.”

“My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.”

“By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture i...”

“She stared at a cat when she was too long and it gave her those lovely eyes. Her body is made of mountains and rivers, and her heart is a clock full of honey.”

“Roland Emmerich is a very interesting individual. He is more erudite and well-read than most of the people I know.”

“I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.”

“I've been to the Bahamas. It's a beautiful country with truly excellent people. When I took a cruise that docked for a couple hours in Nassau, it mostly reminded me of a giant version of my...”

“When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to rise to 9.4 billion. What's more, the Earth's resources a...”

“I never really thought I would be a Bollywood actress. However, I am a drama queen at home, so I guess Bollywood was bound to happen someday or the other.”

“A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.”

“I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, s...”

“we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood”

“The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.”