Every accepted public quote

“My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.”

“The best perk of my job is getting to take products home. I mean, my bathroom looks like Sephora; like a clean, smaller Sephora.”

“It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love, or was I just pretending he was the man of m...”

“Hong Kong has always been a symbol of the vibrant and free exchange of cultures, commerce and ideas. This reputation is threatened, however, in the face of China's efforts to increase its au...”

“Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.”

“My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.”

“Life is too short for long-term grudges.”

“In the beginning of Audioslave, I was very honest. I said, 'We make great albums and write great albums - but don't be under the impression I'm going to be a lyricist that writes anything ot...”

“I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn't even send out countless pi...”

“I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that's it. The lifestyle doesn't change.”

“Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.”

“To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.”

“Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.”

“Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”

“I'm not trying to dog any artist or genre, but to me, there is a lot of diversity missing from the radio. I miss turning the radio on and getting punched in the soul with a great lyric.”

“A neutrino comes into a detector, and most of the time, you don't see it. But very, very seldom, it will satisfy your curiosity and interact.”

“In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot o...”

“I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.”

“I've got a Range Rover and a little Mercedes. I normally drive my Range Rover because I feel like a monster in it. Nobody messes with me.”

“It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different...”

“Who make not friends with sinful, lives not away from hope futilely, Who outrages not another's wife and betrays not arrogance surely; Who never commits any theft or never shows ingratitude...”

“Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste faciliti...”

“Education consists primarily in perfecting the art/science of connecting apparently disparate dots.”

“I have worked with several art directors and production designers who are just magnificent. Dave Getz, Paul Felix, Ian Gooding... just amazing artists, and I would say, if I had anything to...”

“There is no substitute for victory.”

“A lonely face aglow on high. You mean the moon. A flower, red, has caught his eye. A rose in bloom. He cannot touch her, though he try. In darkness glints the tears he cries. I see mere star...”

“I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.”

“Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.”

“I've never seen the Collective Bargaining Agreement.”

“A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man.”

“Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.”

“I am always looking for meaningful one-night stands.”

“I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.”

“I was watching the Nina Simone documentary alone in my room, and I said out loud to myself, 'Why do we not know that this woman is beauty? She is beauty! Why did no one tell me this growing...”

“VR really changes everything for flight because the old simulators for the PC were 2D, and you couldn't look around inside the cockpit and learn the controls or even track other planes throu...”

“The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.”

“People who look for the first time through a microscope say, 'Now I see this, and then I see that,' and even a skilled observer can be fooled. On these observations I have spent more time th...”

“One cannot help but wonder what used to get the huge portions of our attention that are now gotten by social media every single day.”

“All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.”

“What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.”

“I don't train to be an All-American. I train to be the best.”

“I learned something important in my race against Senator Brown: voters want political leaders who are willing to break the partisan gridlock. They want fewer closed-door roadblocks and more...”

“I expected to be a pretty good NBA point guard and hopefully win a championship. But MVP and all this stuff? Not really.”

“I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.”

“The thing is, I don't want to be sold to when I walk into a store. I want to be welcomed.”

“The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can...”

“War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.”

“There's almost a Rorschach-test quality about writing about 'Playboy'. What comes out in the press is not so much about me as it is about society.”