Every accepted public quote

“Southampton is for sporting rich; Bridgehampton is for nearly rich; East Hampton is for the very rich.”

“I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.”

“I would have followed you to hell and back... if only you'd lead me back.”

“Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one...”

“Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.”

“I believe that our show is hopefully a beacon of hope for certain people who think that they have been forgotten, that they don't have the support or representation. We're there for them and...”

“The divestment movement is a start at challenging the excesses of capitalism. It's working to delegitimize fossil fuels and showing that they're just as unethical as profits from the tobacco...”

“I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton's run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thoug...”

“The director's task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds...”

“Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.”

“From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.”

“I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.”

“Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, although whether the net effect is to increase or reduce inequality is not clear.”

“People live in a place called Tornado Alley - and they're surprised when they get hit by a tornado. I'm sorry when they get hit by tornadoes, but when you live in Tornado Alley you can't rea...”

“The fact is, working stiffs with few opportunities and scant education are generally too busy getting by to engage in revolutionary projects to remake society. And history, in fact, shows us...”

“Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world.”

“To being far away from everything and everyone - Stefanie Sybens, Letters from the What-Went-Before”

“The more you know about anything, the more creative you are about everything!”

“If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. They're very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.”

“The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.”

“I don't care if it's Saudi Arabia or if it's Israel or any other country. I can't imagine our members of Congress or even the residents back in the day that pushed back against apartheid in...”

“I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself.”

“When women get great roles in life, they start to get great roles in films and TV. Look at Janet Reno, Madeleine Albright, and Mrs. Thatcher. Because those images are coming at us in life, t...”

“News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.”

“Pain is mandatory for all of us. It's what teaches us. Suffering is what's optional. That's what happens when we try to skip over the pain.”

“How blessings brighten as they take their flight.”

“History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.”

“What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory....”

“Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.”

“Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.”

“It's time to update our workplace policies to reflect the realities of the 21st-century labor force and to support modern working families. It's time to continue our nation's long commitment...”

“Something like 'Sex And The City' was insulting - women all clawing on to their youth when there's such ripe territory in honestly exploring women's lives as they get older.”

“It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.”

“I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in Jerusalem's wall.”

“I love the idea of constantly altering yourself.”

“I find the whole feminist thing very boring. They are so much on the defensive that they dare not love a man because they feel assaulted by being dependent.”

“All you got to do is look around. This country's getting worse and worse and more and more immoral, and we're rotting from within.”

“Hitler wanted not only to eradicate the Jews; he wanted also to destroy Poland and the Soviet Union as states, exterminate their ruling classes, and kill tens of millions of Slavs (Russians,...”

“In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.”

“Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always...”

“The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.”

“I was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to have the intimacy and commitment of marriage.”

“Climate Change and localized warning or cooling is the result of natural phenomena.”

“A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces are designed to release young audiences into the story and then creep up with the real Shake...”

“Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection...”

“Doing difficult things like passing marriage equality, passing the Dream Act, doing common sense things that allow new American immigrants to fully participate, pay their taxes, play by the...”

“There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God.”

“Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter th...”