Every accepted public quote

“I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs.”

“I just love to see people having a good time.”

“The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because in jazz we share, we listen to each...”

“But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.”

“If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap battle you. That's just how I feel about it because I know I'm way harder than another rapper...”

“The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.”

“Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who...”

“The Republican establishment's 2008 embrace of Palin set an irresponsibly low bar. Coincidence or not, a batch of nonsense-spewing, hard-right candidates quickly followed, often to disastrou...”

“However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.”

“I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.”

“I spent more than 20 years of my professional career researching and developing renewable energy sources.”

“Chicago is the largest city in the country without mayoral term limits. This has led to entrenched leaders, a lack of new ideas and creative thinking and a city government that works for the...”

“Our love of kung fu goes back to the Bruce Lee days in the 1970s. Outside the action, we loved the interesting, heartfelt stories and the dialogue. It was RZA's idea to draw all that in ther...”

“We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and those who can't. Well, there's also a velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from k...”

“I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.”

“Black Rainbow' is about control and your emotions being repressed and controlled, and 'Mandy's' about all a volcanic eruption!”

“I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.”

“Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.”

“I started playing poker in 2003 during my pregnancy, to distract myself from my awful morning sickness. For months all I did was cry and play Texas Hold'em.”

“Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.”

“It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone...”

“The right kind of immigrants can benefit the British economy enormously, but no country can accept indiscriminate, unlimited immigration.”

“It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.”

“David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would im...”

“When I sit down and sign up for something, I vet where the people are coming from.”

“When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.”

“I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands”

“If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.”

“It is now an article of absolute faith among Republicans that 'the government' is an entity separate from 'the American people,' which they say the same way that the old Jesuits talked about...”

“Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.”

“I used to sit in bed at night and flip through design-school catalogs. I found out that Parsons accepted a small number of high school juniors, so I applied my sophomore year and got in.”

“People ask me about if, being a Republican, you guys want to cut everything and stop everything and not help people. I find that patently false.”

“Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their g...”

“I bow to no one in my ambition to see Glasgow be as successful as it possibly can be.”

“Big whirls have little whirls, That feed on their velocity; And little whirls have lesser whirls, And so on to viscosity.”

“The very beginning of European aesthetics started from Florence. Everything here was beauty, money, and creativity, the power of the good money.”

“It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.”

“I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him.”

“There are no regrets in life, just lessons.”

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

“Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from...”

“For me the march was a labor - a labor of love - but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn't standing in the crowd listening an...”

“I think I am an artist. I think I am Juan Gabriel, who has given so much with my songs.”

“I don't actually feel multi-talented. I just feel that I'm in this business where we give ourselves 100 titles and gold statues. It's like, lawyers aren't like, 'You're incredible! You're a...”

“If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably...”

“I want you alongside So near to each other For I could listen to your heartbeats I want to stare at you I know this makes me super shy But baby I will try”

“Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own...”

“I've been blessed. Starting with Steppenwolf Theater and onward, learning from wonderful actors and getting to play with wonderful actors.”