Every accepted public quote

“I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin' all these years is changin' it up.”

“I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.”

“The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.”

“I believe that there are better opportunities to keep people safe if we are outside the European Union.”

“I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.”

“About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.”

“I like the idea of multidisciplinary conversations, so in that spirit, I try and make a contribution from the art world into the music world.”

“My mom is a Pan-Africanist. My dad is still Orthodox Sunni Muslim, but he's super fun. He worked in television for years. He was a Black Panther.”

“I am fortunate in having this bone structure because I have a tremendously prominent temple. I like to think that's it's because I'm so intelligent. People say: 'You haven't got a line on yo...”

“The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive fo...”

“The 10 or 20 minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic; there is no adventure I would have traded them for.”

“I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.”

“It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.”

“I was a very religious kid. I was raised as an Episcopalian.”

“I won't look online. The whole fan thing makes me self-conscious, which is not to say I don't appreciate it or understand it. If Mickey Mantle were around, I'm sure I'd have a ton of questio...”

“We're all flawed people at the end of the day; I don't know any perfect people.”

“Logic, fact, morality, legality, ideology: All of it is irrelevant in understanding the Party of Trump. Republicans have made crystal clear that nothing matters to them other than partisansh...”

“I'm from Long Island, which is a very cookie-cutter place.”

“My uncle was a preacher, and I used to go watch him preach. He was also funny, so I'm very 'preacher-ish' on stage, not by intent but because that's where I learned to talk in front of peopl...”

“Life is an endless dictionary”

“The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy...”

“i live on my books. on my writings, i live on my royalties: the percentage an author recieves on each sold copy. and i am proud of it. i am so even though such percentage is small or i shoul...”

“My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.”

“I find my vocabulary is quite a lot better when I'm hungover. I feel like I unlock a key of words that I don't usually use in day-to-day life.”

“To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think abou...”

“If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.”

“There's no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel.”

“People in Scunthorpe don't care what I say. And I'm not camp, either. I'm a geezer. I'm not a raving queer, I've got a bit of character. I just ignore people who shout at me in the street. I...”

“Look at the films of Walt Disney: 'Snow White' came out in February 1938, and I can't think of another film from that year that's watched as much. The same is true of 'Bambi,' 'Dumbo'... eve...”

“I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.”

“It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.”

“I've never been in love with fashion, actually; trends and catwalks don't interest me. I love clothes; I love them historically and currently. They represent a spirit of the times and the ze...”

“Merchants are eager to tap into the millennial Venmo shopper.”

“I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a little girl. I want to rule the world.”

“LaGuardia is jammed into just 680 urban acres; taxiways are tight; runways intersect; you can't launch a departure until the arrival on the other runway crosses the threshold or else the air...”

“Key to longevity... drinking embalming fluid every year.”

“A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.”

“I used to be PlayStation only, but Xbox 360 is really cool, so we play 'Live' and 'Tiger.'”

“Don't let your problems create a roadblock on the way to your success.”

“When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.”

“I have candles, pictures and flowers on my nightstand... and of course a lamp!”

“The thing about a real economy is that it actually is like the game of Monopoly in the sense that when one person has all the money, the game is over. And in a game of Monopoly, of course, t...”

“Alice Levine has great unique style and beautiful red hair.”

“I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.”

“As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the f...”

“There should be no rules at your dinner party except for people to eat a lot and enjoy a long night where they feel like they could fall asleep at the dinner table at the end.”

“I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your...”

“I'm a hard cheese person and I could have it with biscuits for breakfast, lunch and dinner.”