Every accepted public quote

“You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order...”

“I clung to my vegan friends for more support than anyone because they helped guide me and made the transition much easier. My family was a bit skeptical, as they felt like I wasn't getting e...”

“With a lump forming in his throat, he thought about all the hopes and dreams that he had for his son. More than anything, he prayed his boy would not grow up to be a screw up like his dad wh...”

“I use both the 'I' and the 'we.' For on many, many matters, I am not simply expressing ideas that have happened to occur to Joseph Ratzinger, but I am speaking out of the common life of the...”

“It was traditional to not actually cash the prizes that Erdos did award while he was alive. People usually framed the cheque instead.”

“Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for til...”

“You have moments when you sulk, when you crib and cry and feel that, 'why me and why all these things are happening with me.' We are only human. It's about facing your fear and not giving up...”

“I knew I could rap a little bit, which is not the most unique way for being funny. The more I did it, the better I got at rapping, and then I fell in love with the craft of it, and the possi...”

“Those who want things always to stay the same are not living in the real world.”

“The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fig...”

“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

“Does anyone believe that Goldman Sachs is gonna give up a deal that would yield millions of dollars because someone fussed at them behind closed doors?”

“What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African music. If you're playing it like it's an echo of the past, it would be a lot less exciting, but t...”

“I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.”

“I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have written... have really in any way been Southern in character.”

“It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the...”

“I had a ukulele when I was much younger. I have no idea what happened to it but I think that was part of it, just being inspired and wanting to try to play an instrument that, to me, sounded...”

“Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.”

“Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.”

“I see myself as the godfather of the streets.”

“Patriarchy appears to be everywhere. Even outer space and the future have been colonized. As a rule, even the more imaginative science-fiction writers (allegedly the most foretelling futuris...”

“There is a kind of mysticism to writing.”

“My life changed in 2005 on the day I met my wife, Tamzin. She was in a play called 'Breathing Corpses' with James McAvoy, one of my best mates from drama school. I knew who she was, and I'd...”

“I have often had apparitions of hosts of serpents with heads at their tails, but not one was able to bite me; and many other visions.”

“Aspen Ladd is quite the enigma. She looks and acts like a Girl Scout out of the cage, but in there she is an absolute beast.”

“I'm a camper. I love being out in the wilderness.”

“How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.”

“I am a reserved guy and need somebody to pep me up every day, Upsi does that job perfectly. She is very vivacious and outspoken, so we blend very well. We both love travelling, and we have a...”

“Far be it for the public schools to teach this, but the U.S.A. was founded on basic Judeo-Christian principles. Don't believe me - take a trip to Washington D.C. and tour the Supreme Court b...”

“The part you don't expect when you start out is all the people who come into your life wanting a piece of you, not caring about your wellbeing. The insane schedule is very difficult. Touring...”

“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.”

“I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black Hawk Down' was still taking place. The Americans were still pinned...”

“A lot of people were ambivalent about Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson in 1964 positioned himself as the peace candidate. Once Johnson sent large amounts of troops into battle in 1965, most Americans...”

“I go into the gym and do 75 pullups, 75 dips, 150 squats, 150 pushups, and then 20 minutes of ab work. Done. It takes an hour; I'm in and out. I sweat the whole time.”

“Cosmic conspiracy has set us apart, but destiny is comical”

“Lyrics came quite easy early on in my career. But I always wanted to push it further and stand out a bit more. We were coming from the garage era when lyrics were simplified, purposefully, t...”

“My greatest fear in the state of Maine: newspapers. I'm not a fan of newspapers.”

“I like grown-up comedy, where it's about character and attitude and life as opposed to obvious gross-out and jokes.”

“Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.”

“Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.”

“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.”

“To read too many books is harmful.”

“When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.”

“Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that.”

“Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone.”

“Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and d...”

“Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.”

“Death does not wait for you to be ready.”