Every accepted public quote

“That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.”

“Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.”

“In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, a spouse, a good member of my community. How much of my time and energy can I allocate to each...”

“Most of my readers think I'm obsessed with time management, but they haven't seen the other - much more legitimate, much more extreme - obsession. I've recorded almost every workout I've don...”

“I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can be.”

“I grew up in a middle-class family. I went to law school.”

“The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie the...”

“A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.”

“I never met a word I didn't love”

“The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depend...”

“I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or watch bad TV soaps. It's quite rare for me to get inspired by anything, but it could be something sma...”

“A lot of people use the phrase 'underage violence,' which, to me, is meaningless.”

“Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.”

“Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.”

“I don't try to hit home runs. I just try to meet the ball and get base hits.”

“Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is...”

“The stunning problem with mindset is sometimes the rich are cheap while the poor are expensive.”

“I grew up with my grandmother because my parents were making careers and didn't have much time for me. She was a highly religious Serbian Orthodox, spending most of her time in church. It's...”

“When I eat, I have to chop up everything on the plate and stir it all together. It devastates my mom. Everyone at the table is like, 'That looks like cat vomit.' And I stir my Coke with a sp...”

“I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.”

“I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up eve...”

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”

“We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.”

“The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.”

“It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising...”

“Continuity is a wonderful thing, and it is a very rare thing in show business.”

“My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.”

“A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in the world that did not appeal to me. It was so easy to make a blanket statement when I was i...”

“My love of fashion stemmed from my mother's passion for it.”

“I made a record in 1996 called 'Animal Rights' that was a very difficult, very dark punk-rock record. Of all the records I've made, it's my favorite one. It's also the one that got the worst...”

“I think Star City should have Unesco World Heritage status. It will need to be adapted a little bit and made more glamorous than it looks now, but it should definitely be protected for the f...”

“Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance that they have an idea, or in the middle of the rehearsal or the scene they'll let it loos...”

“I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.”

“I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and be absolutely confident that, whatever is required of my character, I can do it.”

“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”

“I am now officially ordained. Yep, that's right - Reverend Tori Spelling!”

“One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.”

“I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.”

“Israel bombed the Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007. What the Syrians did in response, nothing. Israel has killed a number of terrorist leaders in Syria. Response? Nothing.”

“What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?”

“I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don't even know I'm working on. It's a free lunch. A free dinner. I don't know...”

“Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.”

“Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.”

“Don't let your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up; don't let your mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on the right track, the rest will fol...”

“I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way.”

“'Babel' is a continuation of a project; it's not like now we are more theatrical. We've grown up, seen places, been places, and that is shown in this album.”

“If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't en...”

“The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.”