Every accepted public quote

“I'm not high maintenance, and I'm not into a highly manicured man. I don't want to see a lot of hair product. If he's too showy, that's embarrassing to me - I wear makeup and take showers, b...”

“Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.”

“As long as I've known music, Bose has been the company to listen to. They're a lot of fun to work with, but also being able to associate yourself with such a high-quality product is great.”

“A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.”

“On YouTube you can tell what countries are watching and I've definitely noted a strong Australian following. You can plan your tours around where the love is on Twitter and YouTube - before,...”

“Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.”

“I actually watched Tom Brady a good amount in college. My coach in college was Kliff Kingsbury, and he actually was a backup for Brady at one point, and so he showed me things that he liked...”

“As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.”

“In documentary filmmaking, there's a tradition of telling stories about victims. We often do that from a very patronizing place, but mostly we do it from a very selfish place, to reassure ou...”

“Before I had my son, I became obsessed by this painting I'd seen in an art gallery. It was a lot of money, but I felt such a rush of adrenaline when I wrote the cheque to buy it. I thought I...”

“Thank God ever morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not.”

“You can't succeed in the markets today unless you are part of a great team. The team is the essence of how you win.”

“I would love for 'God of War II' to be considered the swan song of the PS2 but I really don't think this will be the last great game on the system.”

“New York City must divest the hundreds of millions of dollars we have invested in Walmart for far too long, dollars that are only fueling violence and undermining the greater public interest...”

“I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.”

“Some MPs, some very senior civil servants and others, are basically conspiring - and I use the word deliberately - in order to try and prevent us from leaving the E.U. They have never accept...”

“It's going to be really weird when I'm 80 years old, in a walker, and people are still calling me America's sweetheart. We need a new one.”

“Every day, President Obama sends a beautiful message about how we should treat our women based on how he treats his wife. When people went after his wife during the campaign, he took a stand...”

“Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.”

“I really hate misunderstandings - to a degree that it's hard for me to watch sitcoms, or any kind of funny movie where there's, like, this big mishap, or miscommunication. It gives me such a...”

“No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro, and my mother was a full blooded Chippewa.”

“Ignorance rises in our community because people do not utlize their common knowledge to express their thoughts to others that can be considered fair and rational.”

“Sometimes you don't want to get married too much to a lot of rehearsing, I feel, when it comes to film, because there's so many technicalities. So if I'm in my head, I've gotten settled on s...”

“Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.”

“Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.”

“If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go...”

“I will never, most likely, be good at the piano, but thanks to it, I will never forget the humbling, infuriating, necessary slowness of progress in any artistic endeavor.”

“Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.”

“Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond...”

“New York was a fantastic place to disappear because no one cares who you are. No one bothers you. In my ten years living there I was never once asked for an autograph or stopped on the stree...”

“If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.”

“The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'”

“With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on.”

“I've had some not-great experiences with laser hair removal, probably because I haven't done what they told me.”

“Growing up, I didn't get the talk of 'Make sure boys take you on a date and treat you right.' So I was the girl who wasn't dating and would just text. I dated these guys who didn't have jobs...”

“Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad.”

“Everyone has complicated lives, but the more you can simplify it and make it work for you, the better it is going to be.”

“I believe in decentralized democracy.”

“In 'Art as Therapy', we argue that art is a tool that can variously help to inspire, console, redeem, guide, comfort, expand and reawaken us.”

“I get called lots of things - a biochemist, a molecular biologist, a chemical engineer - and I guess I am all of those. I identify most as human!”

“I used to be a wannabe Genghis Khan and will always be that. He never lost any battles. Then I swung to the other side of the spectrum and settled on Mr. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Now I re...”

“Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.”

“I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do.”

“Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.”

“Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.”

“Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is nev...”

“Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.”

“One of the head guys at Disney categorically said to me, 'We don't want to make children's films any more. We want to make films that are going to appeal to all quadrants.' Hence you have fi...”