Every accepted public quote

“We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.”

“Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.”

“The first time I got paid as an actor was for 'Man of La Mancha.' So 'Don Quixote' has always been a thing for me.”

“Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism.”

“Most of the writers in TV are from L.A. or New York, and those are places where people are cynical and snarky. And they fly from L.A. to New York in an airplane over this vast, expansive lan...”

“I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.”

“I think 'Party Down' found its audience primarily on Netflix and stuff like that, and primarily after it had been cancelled.”

“Personally, I always try to focus on the little things in my game. As a defender and attacking outside back, I continuously work on completing passes, not being too predictable going forward...”

“For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o'clock, and I'll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch,...”

“It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!”

“When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.”

“A poem is a meteor.”

“He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainles...”

“The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.”

“Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.”

“Everyone thinks my story should be marked by heroism, but there was no risk to myself. You see, no-one in Prague at that time thought they were going to be at war with England.”

“I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music, I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.”

“I think, in a lot of ways, Kanye's superpower is his weakness - if you tell him he can't do something, he's going to go hard at it.”

“What's that show? 'TMZ'? They stand there and say, 'I've got this on this person.' The focus on celebrities can be detrimental because people could be thinking of other things, but it's a pa...”

“The compelling drive to get at the truth is what improves us all as psychologists and is part and parcel of intellectual integrity. But I do urge that we not let the drive for honesty put bl...”

“Nothing that is perfect can be taught”

“I hope my actions speak more for me in the future than my hashtags!”

“Misfortune may pave the path to fortune, with Faith.”

“If one percent of the people who take iPad or iPhone videos of concerts watch them, I'd be very surprised.”

“I'd rather deal with a big company, because at least I can sue them, and see them, and know what they're doing. Google, for instance, shows you everything they've collected on you, with a cl...”

“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.”

“We were determined to be in the fashion, and to visit the various delightful watering places on Long Island Sound. Of course, it would be necessary to combine business with pleasure and purs...”

“The straight man has the best part. He gets to be in the show and see it, too.”

“But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.”

“Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconside...”

“Once I graduated from university, I wanted to climb and be outdoors as much as possible. I worked as a part-time carpenter and kept up a relationship with The North Face. One thing led to an...”

“And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.”

“This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.”

“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.”

“Most groups patent ways of using genetic discoveries as part of non-obvious diagnostic and therapeutic protocols and slightly or greatly altered genes.”

“Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.”

“Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.”

“I've always thought of the United States as a place where so much was possible and so many opportunities were out there.”

“No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.”

“I kind of blossomed backwards. I got cancer, fell in love and have a magical life. I never imagined it would happen that way, but you just go with the flow, right?”

“I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land'...”

“New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.”

“Increasingly, football fans are arguing that the game is bloated with too much down time. The officiating is clumsy.”

“Negative interest rates hurt banks' balance sheets, with the 'wealth effect' on banks overwhelming the small increase in incentives to lend.”

“The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.”

“I want to heal the world by my words.”

“Too many books. Too few centuries.”

“What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.”