Every accepted public quote

“I would love to have dinner with Jay-Z and Beyonce. I think we would have a lot to chat about. I like them both so much, and I love them as a couple. I like that they are both at the top of...”

“Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.”

“Necessity is the mother of delusion. For true love to exist there must be nothing that is necessary to it. Lovers have to live happily ever after, no matter what happens.”

“My own zigzag path through life led me back to Santa Cruz in the early Eighties, and I have revisited regularly since. The place hasn't changed: head in the clouds, backside on the hills and...”

“I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.”

“No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast o...”

“GIS is being influenced by and integrating with all kinds of new innovations such as faster computing, big data, the cloud, smart devices, and distributed processing.”

“I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such fine, delicate work. One frame in one direction or another can...”

“I got a strength coach. My wife. She gets big chains, and at night she puts them around the refrigerator. They are so strong, I can't break them.”

“You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you're too into comfort.”

“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”

“Never leave till tomorrow, which you can do today.”

“In an increasingly polarized world, it's hard to know whom to trust. CNN will be the only news channel that doesn't take a side.”

“I have a great respect for people that write. I don't know how they do it every day... or do novels that they have to use their minds instead of just their memories. It's tough duty.”

“My friends, there are no friends.”

“Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.”

“No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.”

“The most valuable advice I can give is plan for your success. Write down your ideal goal, creating checkpoints for yourself along the way that align with the end goal. Set up rewards for ach...”

“So many different countries have got their version of what Merlin is: the Scottish say he Scottish, the Welsh say he's Welsh, the French say he's French.”

“Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They bui...”

“Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.”

“The Census Bureau can ask citizens very invasive questions, and if they don't respond, the government shows up at their door and threatens them with a fine.”

“It's quite liberating to get to a certain age, 'cos you're not chasing number one hits or trying to be an international superstar. I've done all that. I'm not out to prove much more to anyon...”

“Longevity conquers scandal every time.”

“All the time I had my success, I didn't know what I was doing. I struggled and struggled and hacked things out without any insight as to why.”

“Many times, the way I write my themes or melodies is that I hear it, and then I sing into my phone or something, or I'll scribble down on a piece of paper.”

“All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.”

“I've been in the Los Angeles Children's Chorus since I was 8.”

“This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be here and asking what happened between 1933 and 1945. A lot of that will come up. I think t...”

“I'm the kind of performer who gets lost on stage. I can tap into this soulful haze.”

“Each song has its own secret that's different from another song, and each has its own life. Sometimes it has to be teased out, whereas other times it might come fast. There are no laws about...”

“Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.”

“The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.”

“We are mandating forces to hold regular neighbourhood beat meetings. These meetings will give local people the chance to scrutinise the work of their local police.”

“There's nobody telling Oprah what to do. There's no one telling David Letterman what he can and can't do. You've got to have 100 percent support from everybody who's behind the show, across...”

“If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nin...”

“He who hesitates is poor.”

“That's not writing, that's typing.”

“We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.”

“An insult is mean or unkind. Milton Berle called me the Sultan of Insult, and I was called the King of Insult. But the guy that gave me the best title - and I use it to this day - was Johnny...”

“You won't find God in religion, but you'll find Him in love.”

“Our sole hope, our sole confidence, our only assured promise, is your mercy.”

“When it comes to something like Brexit, I am part of the liberal-media London bubble, and so, to me, voting to leave was madness. My perspective was that it was cutting off your nose to spit...”

“There are a number of issues that I disagree vehemently with Mr. Trump on. I question whether he's got the temperament to serve as president.”

“Religious minority communities in India have endured incidents of harassment, discrimination, intimidation and violent attacks for decades, often with little hope for justice.”

“What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?”

“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome i...”

“When I came to America I thought, 'Wouldn't it be awesome to get into one movie?' And then I get cast in 'Bridesmaids' as my first job here and it's such a huge movie.”