Every accepted public quote

“Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.”

“Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one o...”

“If you don't like what you see when you look in the mirror and you don't have a clue what you want in life, then it is going to be nearly impossible for you to do anything and be successful...”

“I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.”

“If you're based in two places, on a bad day you see only the disadvantages everywhere. On a bad day, returning to Germany brings back all kinds of spectres from the past.”

“The dead play a very prominent part in the experience of the wanderer abroad. The houses in which they were born, the tombs in which they lie, the localities they made famous by their good o...”

“I was a sickly child, and it wasn't until I was 19 that I realised I was quite a robust, vigorous person. Since then I've taken ill health to be an irritating interruption into what is a fai...”

“And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.”

“Every so often, I'll get an idea from a dream, but most of the time, ideas come to me while I'm toiling away at the keyboard just like every other writer.”

“In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.”

“The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that's really the essence of the Christian faith.”

“New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.”

“While it's trendy to outsource your accounting to a third party, once you hit a certain size, it's dangerous.”

“I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long ti...”

“It's interesting that we assign the label 'political' to art that doesn't just fit a mould of status quo. Is 'Downton Abbey' not political? That's political! Every piece of art offers a pers...”

“Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives.”

“Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greate...”

“Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods.”

“I don't have a game plan. I never did, and it's too late to have one even if I wanted to.”

“The NYPD is just a branch of corruption connected to a giant, corrupt tree called the United States government.”

“I don't want 100 different cures of cancer. I want, you know, give me five. So if you had, you know, five medicines, you could do away with 90 percent of cancer. That's sort of my objective....”

“I thought about going onto the first one, Pop Idol. My mum was saying, 'Go on!' But I decided not to. 'The X Factor,' though, doesn't really seem to be a show about musical talent anymore.”

“Not since the days of George W. Bush's 'Clear Skies' and 'Healthy Forests' initiatives has America been presented with a project as cravenly corporate and backward-looking as the Keystone XL...”

“When you're my size in the pros, fear is a sign that you're not stupid.”

“My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.”

“My mom drives me crazy sometimes, but I have a good relationship with her.”

“For success you need tune your subconscious mind to reach the top of the mountain and overcome all the obstacles on the road. Identify your internal motivations and tune it to the top of the...”

“I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of t...”

“People are down on Evangelicalism these days, but even my earliest years of life showed me that Evangelical churches are great at doing a whole lot of important things. When an active member...”

“Nisargadatta: You can have for the asking all the peace you want. Questioner: I am asking. Nisargadatta: You must ask with an undivided heart and live an integrated life. Questioner: How? Ni...”

“When I read Katana's run in 'Birds of Prey,' I was curious about her restraint. She didn't laugh, didn't loosen up, didn't seem to have a light side. I thought, well, that demure nature is w...”

“Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.”

“The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.”

“The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible...”

“People are absolutely free to criticize the government and protest, but their protests should be in such a way as to improve the situation in the country and their life.”

“Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better.”

“The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassina...”

“Whatever any boxer does in the ring, I don't think any reporter should call him a coward. Anyone who does that I lose complete respect for. There's a difference between being a coward and be...”

“I don't really think of myself as a heartthrob.”

“With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.”

“Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable.”

“I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem...”

“I have a golden leg that I am completely proud of, but my left foot that has an open ulcer, no heel, and no toes. Over the years, my body has produced a lot of calcium, which causes my bones...”

“But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet.”

“Every home, office, club, yacht, landscape, or piece of furniture I may design will be different from the other. What will be consistent, however, is my own personal sense of style through i...”

“When we are asked to act, we do so only if we feel at least minimally competent to do what is asked of us. We need to feel that our actions will ultimately be successful. Without some expect...”

“Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.”

“I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.”