Every accepted public quote

“Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember...”

“I rest my proteins in their liquid when I am done with the heat braise.”

“Drumming is my middle name.”

“I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.”

“I like to wear more traditional work outfits like pants and a blouse, but I want the blouse to have something that is a little bit different and interesting - like with some studs on it or a...”

“If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.”

“Tak peduli bagaimana pun rasa sakit itu akan membekas, percayalah, tidak ada kenangan indah yang benar-benar mati. Ia akan tetap menjalar. Sampai kapan pun.”

“Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis had enormous talent, and Elvis was the major contributor to an entirely new genre of music. Sometimes their exploits were distasteful to people, but they left behin...”

“Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple mor...”

“It is no fun lining up in your own building - as the hockey players say - and touching the hands of fellow stubbly louts who have just sent you off to the proverbial cabin on the lake.”

“Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner.”

“I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eli...”

“To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.”

“I love my daughter, but there's a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?”

“Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremel...”

“We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.”

“Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.”

“Food not only connects us at the idyllic dinner table setting with family and friends: it is also part of our mundane, daily transit to and from work.”

“I'm a big fan of Tarantino's work, and I think I'm fascinated by his evident sense of entitlement to use black characters and black material that he feels not simply comfortable with, but th...”

“If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.”

“He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.”

“There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.”

“Whatever your walk of life is, I think you have to be real about it.”

“A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.”

“I'll relish playing at Wembley in a major cup final. It's a great achievement for me, and it's why I became a footballer, because I want to win medals.”

“Fear grew in places unlit by knowledge”

“My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I've definitely been the lucky reci...”

“Your presence is always a gift if it is wrapped in love.”

“I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song...”

“Law graduates have always ended up in business, government, journalism and other fields. Law schools could do more to build these subjects into their coursework.”

“Everybody wants respect. In their own way, three-year-olds would like respect, and acknowledgment, in their terms.”

“I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.”

“I am always thinking that some interesting possibility, some accidental synergy, could occur in a collaboration, and people seem to like it.”

“Every moment of attention we spend scrolling through social media is attention spent making money for someone else. The numbers are staggering: a New York Times analysis calculated that as o...”

“As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.”

“A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.”

“Knowing about authors' beliefs helps you understand how those beliefs influence their writing, and things you thought meant one thing, once you've got enough information about that writer, y...”

“Sally Field looks amazing in general, never mind her age! She's a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades.”

“As artists, we can't help but infuse our art with our own experience, so your experience becomes informative.”

“Blast my record out the windows of your Honda Accord. And if anyone gives you grief, you look them right in the eye and tell them Rick Ross told you wealth begins in the heart.”

“I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.”

“I like pin-up girls. I'm more of a boy than a girl. I'm not a lesbian, though - not before a sambuca anyway.”

“I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.”

“I agree with the idea that there is a separation of church and state. That teachers should not be leading prayer - a particular kind of prayer in classrooms.”

“Foot-binding is said to have been inspired by a tenth-century court dancer named Yao Niang who bound her feet into the shape of a new moon. She entranced Emperor Li Yu by dancing on her toes...”

“My work indicated that if we consider smaller and smaller black holes, at some stage, the properties of black holes become indistinguishable from those of elementary particles.”

“One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue...”

“I was so beat down as a young person - being black, being gay, being unable to assimilate because I could never, ever pull off being butch.”