Every accepted public quote

“I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.”

“The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has b...”

“Growing up, I didn't know about the Japanese internment camps until I saw a movie of the week as an adult. I remember going, 'How come that wasn't covered in history class?' Moving to Califo...”

“His idea of exercise is walking to his vitamins.”

“Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.”

“That's kind of how I see my workmanship: it's how many hours I put in that makes me better.”

“It's not a hard job to be yourself.”

“The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.”

“One of the things I like about music is it's an abstract art, totally abstract, where you can convey an emotion, which I find amazing.”

“There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we s...”

“Trust your journey, stay in your lane, and change your attitude when times get tough.”

“Through strength I found love In time I found myself in happiness with you”

“Through wisdom a house is built and through understanding it is established.”

“The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a...”

“It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.”

“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”

“I'm not one to think of burying my head in the sand - I've always been a positive person and still am now.”

“I could really use a corporate sponsor. People think that because you're in the movies, you're rich. I have allocated all my resources to Shambala so the animals will always be safe.”

“But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.”

“Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen.”

“I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purp...”

“The colors of the Sunset are a reminder of the completion of today and the hope of a brand new tomorrow.”

“I think that the 'Bourne Trilogy,' it's definitely redefined the genre and took it to a new level. It was really great to be part of that experience. It is a very smart movie and a very smar...”

“I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.”

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”

“I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly”

“Things like Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo are not new things: there are many precedents.”

“If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let go of tension. Music gets your mind off the situation, and the act of whistling melts...”

“Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved...”

“Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature...”

“Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sus...”

“To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.”

“What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people, 'Do they hate him?' That takes a lot of ne...”

“The approach that the music industry took to fight piracy was the wrong strategy.”

“In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.”

“Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.”

“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for...”

“When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.”

“However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.”

“I'm surprised Beyonce liked me. I met Beyonce!”

“How many artists subscribe to the notion that creative success depends on input from the fickle muse or her modern avatar, mental illness? Probably very few.”

“When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping away at it. We're not in that much of a hurry, because when we release a Blur album, that's a t...”

“A lot of times, when kids have problems with algebra or trigonometry, it has nothing to do with the subject matter, has nothing to do with their innate intelligence. It's just they that they...”

“I try to jog in every city I visit, and I particularly enjoy harbour-front paths that let me ogle big ships, railroad bridges and the ruins of factories and warehouses.”

“Differences between humans are not a reason to be separated, but to unite and share what we know in our ways”

“I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.”

“Americans are guaranteed the constitutional right to legal abortion in Roe v. Wade, and it's past time for Republicans to stop using the issue as a political football. In fact, it's past tim...”

“The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it...”