Every accepted public quote

“Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.”

“The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.”

“To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oceans and forests are close enough to refresh the spirit; the architecture is always excitin...”

“(Writing) - the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.”

“I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that's how I've felt about bands I love.”

“I like a spirituality with a God that knows how to drive a car, that knows how to take his girl to the dance club, dance all night, have a little drink, kiss the kid when they come back in a...”

“I bashed myself. I cut myself. I caught on fire. I fell: I had been myopically focused on peeling garlic, and hadn't noticed a bin of beef at my feet until I walked into it.”

“Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”

“It takes two years to make a good film.”

“I support workplace clean air. But a federal ban on smoking would mean that you couldn't smoke in your own home. I don't care what people do in their home.”

“I love all the teenager stuff like 'Glee,' '90210,' 'Vampire Diaries,' 'Gossip Girl.'”

“I love practising, ever since I was that kid in the field, but I don't set targets for each session or anything.”

“Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.”

“You have a lot of people asking for town halls with the purpose of disrupting a town hall.”

“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.”

“I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.”

“Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.”

“If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.”

“I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.”

“I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.”

“Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that...”

“Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a bunch of punk rock bands. The Bee Gees, hip-hop and the Beach Boys are just...”

“It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.”

“Psychologically, when you hear something a number of times, you start to believe it.”

“It is never too late to be wise.”

“Ozone is something that we most definitely have to regulate. It's a very important thing to regulate.”

“What you like and dislike tells you what you are. Knowing the self is the greatest wisdom, because when you discover yourself, you also discover your source of happiness within.”

“Defaulting on the nation's debt would be cataclysmic. The U.S. Treasury's Aaa rating is the one constant in the world's financial system. When times are bad anywhere on the planet, global in...”

“So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it s...”

“When I saw 'Breakfast at Tiffany's,' and Audrey Hepburn was standing in front of Tiffany's in this Givenchy dress, or when I saw 'All About Eve,' I thought that period was just fabulous. I m...”

“I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.”

“So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see.”

“I didn't feel like I was allowed to be a songwriter. I thought I had to be a really intelligent lyricist, like a poet.”

“Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.”

“Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.”

“Dituntun oleh masa laluku, didorong oleh keberadaanku, aku terbang mencari sesuatu yang tak kuketahui. Antusiasme, rasa ingin tahu, dan harapan menemaniku.”

“My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should a...”

“Most ballerinas take their first ballet class when they are 5 or 6 years old. I was 13 when I took mine on the basketball court of the San Pedro Boys & Girls Club in California.”

“If anything, 'Friday Night Dinner' is quite mean. All these pranks that we play on each other, there's a lot of hitting and slapping and jumping at each other trying to scare each other. But...”

“I don't like the women who stand up for the empowerment of women at the expense of men. They try to demonize men, and they try to suggest men all want to keep us down, which is one of the re...”

“Dylan captured what was on a million minds and turned it into poetry. With 'Blowin' in the Wind' or 'The Times They Are A-Changin',' he set a whole new standard.”

“I made 'Enemy' to prep myself for 'Prisoners.' I had the need to direct something smaller in English before going to Hollywood. That's the way I sold it to Warner because they asked me if I...”

“Love that doesn't turn you stupid, is no love.”

“Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the st...”

“Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?”

“Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knock them down.”

“I grew up in Los Angeles when the racial tensions between blacks and Mexicans were very high. Gang violence was very prevalent.”

“The asparagus effect is what happens sometimes when you render 2D images into 3D.”