Every accepted public quote

“Some people wear their heart on their sleeve; I do that in more ways than one.”

“We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.”

“I'm the happiest combination you can think of. I'm a Russian poet, an English essayist, and a citizen of the United States.”

“I think I've always had these two currents, equally strong, of wanting to change the world and make the world better and fight injustices and fight violence, and then being an artist, which...”

“I only wish the NRA and its jellyfish, well-paid supporters in legislatures both State and Federal would be careful to recite the whole of it, and then tell us how a heavily armed man, woman...”

“Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it's cool to mash up a lot of dif...”

“People are beginning to realize that we need to live in accordance with the law of ecology, the law of finite resources, and if we don't, we're going to go extinct.”

“I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.”

“It seemed that everyone else could mate, could fit their parts together in pleasant and productive ways, but that some almost indistinguishable difference in my anatomy and psyche set me sli...”

“I had a great teacher in my brother and my dad, and to be able to follow Kurt's footsteps has helped out a whole bunch.”

“I believe you've got to do your due diligence.”

“We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and...”

“It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil-far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itse...”

“I grew up in Zurich until I was 12, and I've always come to Vorderer Sternen for a sausage, a hunk of bread, and some mustard.”

“I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the...”

“I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.”

“I worked at this great Toronto bar, Indian Motorcycle. I started off as the grunt. I was the guy who cleaned up the puke and the ashtrays and the garbage. Worked in front from four in the af...”

“If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.”

“I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communica...”

“I did a picture 40 years ago with Carroll O'Connor and Telly Savalas, God rest their souls, and Clint Eastwood, called 'Kelly's Heroes,' which we filmed in Yugoslavia for six months.”

“Tierra Whack is very wise.”

“We have to say 'yes' to Jesus. Many have done that, but when saying 'yes' to Jesus, we must say at the same time 'no' to sin. Otherwise, that 'yes' to Jesus is invalid.”

“My participation in the Art of the Olympians is a natural extension of my athletic career. I find creating a piece of art in many respects mirrors my long jumping efforts illustrating that h...”

“In 2009, I went to Cannes with a short film in the Kodak emerging program at the American Pavilion.”

“Ambition is not a vice of little people.”

“In 'Roma,' I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious of that, and it thrills me. Imagine being in a traffic jam at the Colis...”

“It's during dream sleep where we start to actually take the sting out of difficult, even traumatic, emotional experiences that we've been having. And sleep almost divorces that emotional, bi...”

“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death wer...”

“When people have hearing loss, I think they often take that burden and pass it on to their friends and family, and we make them scream and yell at us so we can hear! But I think it's better...”

“I just want to make great music. There's not a genre that I would categorize it as, but I want it to be true and authentic.”

“I feel like I am walking in some amazing footsteps of writers who have come before me, like S.E. Hinton, Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Paul Curtis, Richard Peck and Kate DiCamillo, who I lo...”

“I definitely post a lot of memes and content that's isolated to Twitter that I wouldn't be able to do on stage because a live crowd doesn't have that same frame of reference.”

“Yet in order to make sure the European social model keeps up with the pace of economic change that is now necessary, the EU must embrace a new approach to lawmaking.”

“Women have no appreciation of good looks-at least, good women have not.”

“The musician who always plays on the same string, is laughed at.”

“It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.”

“A plumber doesn't change the way he plumbs when he has a kid. You're a comedian. This is your style.”

“While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and count the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful.”

“It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.”

“That's where I get my whole music theory from, my pops and my grandfather.”

“I love trains. I don't even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but they're not.”

“For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”

“My hair color is super important to my look because I feel like it helps kind of define who I am. It's like a characteristic of mine that makes me feel comfortable and different from the res...”

“Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall draw...”

“Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.”

“...It's just nice to see you out from his shadow. Because things don't grow in the shadows, you know? So it was frustrating to see you standing there...and really cool to see you step out of...”

“Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywh...”

“It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.”