Every accepted public quote

“As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was a likely prelude to complete withdrawal from the c...”

“Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.”

“At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.”

“The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.”

“I think a lot of people will be liberated from a lot of oppressive manufacturing jobs, or a lot of service jobs, because they'll be done by computers. There'll be the world's best education...”

“Fame is short-lived, and you're the last to know when you are no longer hot.”

“The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.”

“Our camps and workshops offer a space where girls of color can learn computer science and coding principles alongside their peers, with mentorship from female role models who have establishe...”

“We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.”

“I love beauty supply lip gloss. Any cheap, 99-cent lip gloss. I use it, it stays on all day. You can eat anything and it will still be on your lips. You can drink anything, it's still on the...”

“I rise at 6. Strong coffee helps me face the paper edition of 'The New York Times.' It daily challenges my own capacity for faking anything deranged enough to sound true. I work till 2 P.M....”

“You grow up and recognize that in any educated secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognize in yourself, and challenge yourself, that if you see racism or homophob...”

“A few dozen changes to the genome of a modern elephant - to give it subcutaneous fat, woolly hair and sebaceous glands - might suffice to create a variation that is functionally similar to t...”

“I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.”

“I woke up one morning and realised that one of the problems with being a middle-aged man - of being a man in general - is the tyranny of fashion.”

“I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.”

“Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.”

“The more you understand your true spiritual identity, and your connection with the Supreme, the easier it will be to love your Self.”

“I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.”

“Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to the audience, to let them know what it would be like to be inside my head.”

“I'll never forget the way he tastes. It's not anything I can describe, a little sweet and a whole lot of spice, and it feels, in that moment, absolutely right.”

“A chronicle is very different from history proper.”

“I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger.”

“If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb after!”

“Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.”

“The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.”

“There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.”

“I grew up in what you might call a relentlessly creative household. We were given art supplies, music supplies... Our mother knew enough to get us started and then stand back and not meddle....”

“Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.”

“I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.”

“Fate: I'm bringing a tough time to you. Me: I'm waiting. Fate: I will fuck you once again. Me: Ha Ha, Do it hard than the last time if you can.”

“The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it...”

“The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of dealing, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than psychiatrists. The sto...”

“George W. Bush said the reason the Oval Office is round is there are no corners you can hide in.”

“It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth ar...”

“Great musicians are great musicians, whether they're playing a trombone or an electric guitar or a xylophone.”

“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”

“If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump...”

“Is our desire for partnership just an evolutionary remainder, a Togetherness Delusion, where millions of women only think they need a relationship to be truly happy? Maybe. But you know what...”

“The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.”

“An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.”

“Come with me And you will find What's been trapped Inside my mind...”

“In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive gro...”

“During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was not responding to sounds, my father was absolutely convinced that I was simp...”

“One shouldn't get carried away by styling, as it can be a double-edged sword. The person should have it in him or her to carry it off.”

“I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.”

“My favorite thing about my grandmother is her lust for life and how much she has shown me about living every day to the fullest. To say my grandmother has paved the way for me and so many wo...”

“Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the fin...”