Every accepted public quote

“Honestly, the biggest setback to my music career was people's perception that I was a reality TV star, not a rapper.”

“The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.”

“I always tell my family - and they laugh about it - but someday, I will write a vegetarian book. My cousin, who's a big vegetarian, tells me flat out, 'You're my favorite vegetarian chef.'”

“The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.”

“. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.”

“I thought I was okay in my first film, and then I was really, really bad in some films. I really cringe when I see some of my scenes. There's a scene in one film where a dog is biting me; th...”

“I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.”

“I'm a worker. I'm a grinder.”

“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”

“"But I don't want to be a vampire drone." Sophronia winced. "They'll suck my blood and make me wear only the very latest fashions." Petunia nodded in an I-know-more-than-you manner that was...”

“I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.”

“And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.”

“I think you need humour and a sense of fun, which is what I try to bring to my books to leaven the danger and action. The ones that really transcend the genre always have a great laugh in th...”

“Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny.”

“Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.”

“Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.”

“Ireland is a good place to start out as a filmmaker. If what you do is good, even at a very small scale, it will get recognized.”

“The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and pla...”

“Twitch is a platform. Switch it on, and you'll find thousands of channels of pure gameplay rolling around with people talking in the background. Dig a little deeper, and you'll also find peo...”

“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”

“I refuse to give energy to the negative. I've got a great fella and two great little girls.”

“I've played Frankie Cosmos shows where the promoter or whoever sees that I'm the lead singer, and then they go up to David, the bassist, and are like, 'So, do we pay you?' And he's like, 'No...”

“Even in novels where the love relationship isn't the focus, I feel like it's often there, and the background is some barometer of whether this is a happy or sad story or whether this is a su...”

“Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of...”

“The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers...”

“Presidential and vice-presidential debates are not about campaign staff or consultants, and it is high time we as a people took control and reminded them and their candidates of that importa...”

“Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.”

“The idea, as a director, is to be able to bring everybody on board and to inspire and give energy to everybody and to explain specific color, specific ambience. I need to be very precise, bu...”

“It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't...”

“This movement that RuPaul has created and World of Wonder and Logo has allowed to be aired, it's so much than just gay men carrying on in high heels and wigs and fake fingernails. It's truly...”

“Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.”

“I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.”

“When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.”

“A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so much by the end of the class that I never wanted to see it again.”

“In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no...”

“The root of the problem I have is anxiety, and it's all derived from something - I'm just going to say it, some kind of sadness. It manifests in so many different ways and it affects people...”

“Sometimes your prayers go unnoticed, that's life.”

“The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.”

“Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.”

“When I think of my fellow members, I get a little choked up. I genuinely want for them all to succeed and be happy... Since we went through difficult periods together, I think it's important...”

“This is a sad story, Of three Brethren kings, Hijackers of the mind, Who obviously need no wings, Three snatchers of religion, Three monarchs with ambition.”

“In later life, we don't easily talk of fears, but instead we discuss our 'concerns.' Fear seems too primal and hysterical, but concern is polite and intellectual and nicely under control.”

“The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.”

“By curious accident of history and geography, the world's major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They're a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where...”

“If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.”

“The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, an...”

“I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?”

“A new day comes with the rays of new hope and lights of new wisdom.”