Every accepted public quote

“I have lost a lot of clothes over the years... Probably the oldest garment that I still have would be my Union Jack jacket from John Galliano's spring/summer 1993 show.”

“I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.”

“I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.”

“Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.”

“I don't want to get pigeon-holed into a certain kind of character. I love action roles and the hero, but I want to keep trying something new.”

“I live in Atlanta, Georgia, and none of the other Backstreet Boys live in Georgia. So a lot of times, when people come to my house they're like, 'Hey, is A.J. here?' Or, 'Is Kevin here?' Or,...”

“I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.”

“The one thing I was always told is you absolutely have to tell truth to power. Whether you're a second lieutenant working with a captain and a lieutenant colonel, or a four-star general work...”

“Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.”

“I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.”

“Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve t...”

“I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.”

“I don't know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award for the first story I ever had nominated for a Nebula in 1982. And you might think that was a go...”

“There is a perception across the Middle East that America is weakened. I believe the perception is wrong. The United States remains the world's mightiest military, economic and diplomatic po...”

“I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.”

“Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.”

“To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.”

“I think we are living in a time where the consumer has lots of choices, whether it's coffee, newspapers or whatever it is. And there is parity in the market place, and as a result of that, t...”

“I was kind of a nerdy, geeky type. And I loved math. People teased me about it. I felt pretty much like an outcast.”

“When a guy 275 pounds snaps, look out.”

“Simian Mobile Disco changed my life. They put me onto the EDM world. Although they would hate that term, they're more techno.”

“Building a sports power is a patriotic undertaking aimed at translating into reality the plan and wish of the great leaders, who devoted their efforts to building ours into a country that pr...”

“Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are”

“Hate is not a good counselor.”

“I feel a strange connection to something infinite. In the depths of my heart, somewhere reason cannot reach, I keep wondering: why does it seem like there is something beyond time and space,...”

“Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.”

“As your lover describes you, so you are.”

“I think the Brexit vote in Great Britain informing this populist movement of nationalism is kind of a global thing, and I think it's no particular political party's fault. People have been l...”

“Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig. To me...”

“If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it's expensive, and it has unquantified ris...”

“The waist is a terrible thing to mind.”

“The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous.”

“Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?”

“The desperate hunger our president has for approbation has led him to such lengths as claiming that God stopped the rain during his Inauguration. In fact, Mother Nature made sure it rained o...”

“The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.”

“My records are borderline dance records. They've got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there's a lot of people that were like, 'This is a dance re...”

“A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.”

“One time, when I was really young, my dad and brother were watching 'Team America,' the Trey Parker and Matt Stone movie. I walked in and they didn't know I was there, but I got really freak...”

“Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe.”

“Self-loathing doesn't keep me from being happy. But that doesn't mean I don't struggle.”

“Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.”

“Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'”

“I'm never without my dog. They would be in every corner of the house, and my wife will not allow me to have any more than that. But I have lots of dogs. I love the dogs. I breed them. I alwa...”

“And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me learn to play with them, which I think is the most important thing that I learned.”

“I might just stop talking again and not do interviews.”

“One thing I'm proud to do like a girl is represent my country in the Olympics and at the highest level, at the highest platform that I can.”

“Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.”

“Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonical...”