Every accepted public quote

“We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.”

“I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.”

“Back home, I find small towns very peaceful. When my father and uncle were still in the film business, we had a tradition of travelling to the temple town of Srisailam to screen every film b...”

“When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.”

“When a film works, the director had a lot to do with that, but the director also didn't have a lot to do with that. There are so many moving parts. It's really about being open to how the ri...”

“The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.”

“All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.”

“The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.”

“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”

“Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.”

“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.”

“I train very hard, either rowing on the cross trainer or running. Not only do you feel tired afterwards but it relaxes you, it completely clears the head. But to sort things out I also like...”

“Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork?”

“I was upset about getting $40 haircuts, like, every month. That's a lot of money, and so, man, that's a lot of food. That's a waste. No more. So I'm, like, letting it go so I have more food....”

“Dream your dream; and realize that you are more than just the dreamer, you are the point of origin for its reality.”

“To expect is to disrespect the unconditionality of love.”

“Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.”

“We simply can't keep providing money from the federal government in the form of subsidized or actual loans and Pell Grants when we don't have the money.”

“Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the s...”

“I'd like to do interesting indie films mixed with big, high-paying commercial blockbusters. 'One for you, one for me,' is what they say.”

“If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget.”

“Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's a length of time it's supposed to be. The restrictions of budget a...”

“As humans we like to laugh at our fears, we like to whistle in the dark.”

“As to the effect of the wave on the air, we will suppose the water to be quite flat and the air motionless, a heavy undulation comes on the scene, it has to pass, so it pushes the air up wit...”

“Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the lam. These homecomings typically involved prearranged surrender...”

“I can be a nag. And my mother can be a nag. It's a nagging relationship, but we know that it's loving.”

“Chicago always hit me as such a gloomy place - I just remember all the snow getting dirty as soon as it would fall, all the decaying brown brick buildings around where we lived, all this soo...”

“I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he deci...”

“Indian street magic tends to be very gory, blood and guts. One trick is for a magician to take a knife and appear to cut his kid's head almost off. The magician then says to the crowd, 'Well...”

“I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.”

“I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.”

“In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that religion was the root cause of all these evils. While my father told m...”

“Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.”

“I just don't know when, as a society... it sort of only became OK to represent gay people in the traditional sense, where they have a great job and well-adjusted parents and maybe a surrogat...”

“I sing 'Beirut' for what the city is for me, but I am also singing as an exile.”

“I like it, but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring.”

“Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.”

“Failure is a pre requisite to success”

“I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which...”

“A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the pr...”

“For the newborn and wise, everything begins small.”

“I remember seeing the first Astaire-Rogers musical on television, and I couldn't believe how beautiful it was. It dawned on me that you don't have to wear a cowboy hat to be a man.”

“When push comes to shove, people vote alone.”

“You put on this set of goggles, and within seconds, your brain is convinced you're now in a different, virtual environment. You're somewhere else, and that somewhere else may be a video game...”

“Revolutionaries are not infallible.”

“I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark b...”

“Science only goes so far, then comes God. - Noah Calhoun-”

“In my concerts, I'm always doing new songs, so someone seeing me for the first time or many times before will be pleasantly surprised and hopefully entertained.”