Every accepted public quote

“A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient linked to the worl...”

“The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.”

“Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!”

“Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?”

“I contend that the ethos of perpetual non-judgment is intellectually dishonest if not outright cowardly.”

“It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.”

“There's a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things the...”

“I view everything in the context of Lord Krishna's will, and for me, it is fine if things go in my favour or against.”

“Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practises a social tyr...”

“Maybe it was escapism, but I had become obsessed with going to remote locations and keeping myself behind the camera.”

“I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.”

“Get out of your house and go see some live performance, for God's sake. There are people creating things just outside your window.”

“Life would have been beautiful if there weren't any problems.”

“There are reasons that bands and musicians make demos and outtakes - because they are not good enough to make the record. A lot of people forget that.”

“When I was younger, I worked for several years composing music for commercials, but I was very happy to give that up. I didn't really like it, it was a way of financing my bands.”

“The public owns the airwaves; Congress gave them to broadcasters for free, with the understanding that they would serve the public interest while trying to maximize profit. An aspect of serv...”

“Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.”

“I didn't really realize I was a woman director until I walked onto the set at Pinewood Studios when I did 'Mamma Mia!' and everybody was calling each other 'Governor' and 'Sir'... and then,...”

“What is usual is not what is always. As sometimes, in old age, hearing comes back. Footsteps resume their clipped edges, birds quiet for decades migrate back to the ear. Where were they? By...”

“Magazine clips with more than 10 rounds should be prohibited from civilian use.”

“Out in L.A., things relax even further than they do in Chicago. There's such a looseness to it, and there's a potentially refreshing advantage to that.”

“I get lots of requests from people to write sad songs, and I'm like, 'No, that's rubbish patter.'”

“Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.”

“I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.”

“One day, when the world market is more or less fully developed and can no longer be suddenly enlarged, and if labour productivity continues to advance, then sooner or later the periodic clas...”

“Football was my saving grace so I want to let people know that you can achieve whatever you want. People like to concentrate on what you can't do, so let's preach what you can. Why would I w...”

“I don't think there'd be a Tina Fey now if I hadn't tried to look good in the beginning.”

“When in doubt tell the truth.”

“I only read books with words on the pages. I'm picky like that.”

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

“I'm not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It's just I don't believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.”

“The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.”

“Flow is the best of what happens when potential is activated by consciousness.”

“The daughters of God don't brake for jerks.”

“The future of the U.N. will be determined by its readiness to change and adapt.”

“Darkness entered into, darkness realized, is the point of departure for all profound expressions of Christian hope. 'Meaningless darkness' becomes 'revelatory darkness' when it is confronted...”

“I am forever a Cleveland Brown.”

“I've not been distracted by a long-running TV show or visits to America for pilot season.”

“The problems of the world, from immigration to populism to income inequality to sustainability to peacekeeping, require a well-functioning supranational body.”

“I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.”

“The most effective adaptation of racism over time is the idea that racism is conscious bias held by mean people.”

“I have said before, you don't expect conservative parties to believe in much, but you do expect them to believe in thrift.”

“I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.”

“Time and again I hear how important the darker environment is to those at our vintage-faith worship gathering. Attenders feel they can freely pray in a corner by themselves without feeling t...”

“The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.”

“I hate the word 'rendering,' as it equates to 'pouring concrete' on ideas that demand continuing dialog. 'Trade secrets' imply hoarding of knowledge.”

“The aim of a nuclear-transplant experiment is to insert the nucleus of a specialized cell into an unfertilized egg whose nucleus has been removed.”

“I prefer the Grand Slam than the No. 1, but still, to get No. 1, not many players did that, so it's going to be very important for me.”