Every accepted public quote

“Grown-up parties are so dull they make me want to throw a tantrum and hurl red wine on the nearest cream-damask armchair.”

“The best swimmers are the ones that almost don't try the most... It's just about relaxing and enjoying it.”

“If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.”

“Any time you make a movie where you're living in a certain head space for an extended period of time, it's tough not to take a little piece home with you.”

“The future path of the federal funds rate is necessarily uncertain because economic activity and inflation will likely evolve in unexpected ways. For example, no one can be certain about the...”

“Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.”

“I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.”

“Habaneros have a great fruity flavor, but the challenge is that you have to deflect the heat in order to taste the flavor. If you don't, you're dead. They should really have a warning sign o...”

“In a 24/7 news cycle, with all the shrieking, howling voices and rapid-response and instant spinning and Soviet-style disinformation-mongering, a good idea has a shelf life of about, um, six...”

“The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.”

“Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care.”

“To establish evolutionary interrelatedness invariably requires exhibiting similarities between organisms. Within Darwinism, there's only one way to connect such similarities, and that's thro...”

“Shanghai is an amazing city. The fans were so nice to my family and to myself and just treated us as their own. I'm extremely grateful to the Sharks for that opportunity.”

“Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.”

“Nobody believes you when you talk about happiness”

“I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.”

“'Naked' embodies what everyone, at the end of the day, really wants and how they should feel.”

“Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it's kind of exhilarating to be a part of projects where there's nothing funny or lighthearted.”

“No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.”

“I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl th...”

“I do like the nonpartisan atmosphere here at City Hall where you can talk with the person who opposes you and either get their support or not.”

“Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.”

“Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.”

“George Benson's 'This Masquerade' is my favorite version of Leon Russell's blue gem.”

“And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consu...”

“I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.”

“Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.”

“I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot more brash, a lot more bold, a lot more loquacious. There are a lot more words that go int...”

“The love I knew was from books..”

“With my kids, they're told 75 times a day that they're loved. One thing I know is they feel loved and secure and happy and needed and necessary and a part of something.”

“As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?”

“In a job negotiation, the implementation of that deal is your success that also causes the company to succeed.”

“You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfh...”

“I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which...”

“That settles it, no more books about vampire before bedtime.”

“As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new thing...”

“Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college together.”

“People used to be unhappy that files and data of Aramco are undeclared, unclear, and not transparent.”

“I think you can learn from pretty much everybody if you just open your eyes.”

“When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.”

“Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.”

“People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.”

“I got a bad conduct discharge, was at home for a few months in late '99, and basically said, 'Dad, I want to give wrestling a shot. I sure as hell don't wanna go to college, and the Marine C...”

“Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.”

“The basic DNA we've got to implant in leaders now is adaptability: not to get wedded to the solution to a particular problem, because not only the problem but the solution changes day to day...”

“Who said to kill does not require gentleness?”

“You could watch entire villages and see what everyone was doing. I watched NSA tracking people's Internet activities as they typed. I became aware of just how invasive U.S. surveillance capa...”

“I salute South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. Lindsey Graham for their calls to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the Statehouse.”