Every accepted public quote

“I was a 'reverence for life' man - 'see life steadily and see it whole' - in my days as a lecturer in English lit. We are, I argued, if not exactly 'saved' by reading, at least partially 're...”

“I am of the opinion that the burden of playing games is much too high, especially for international players that also play domestically with their clubs.”

“If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib...”

“On 'Late Night,' it's like we're all in on the joke. That's what I wanted it to be. I'm not doing something sneaky. Inside jokes, I don't like those. We can all ride together, and everyone's...”

“The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.”

“I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.”

“Views are overrated; it's light that counts. I have an apartment in Miami's South Beach, and I get tired of looking at the ocean. Even that view gets old after a while. Sunlight streaming in...”

“The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.”

“It feels awesome to be a Guinness World Records title holder and to be the first artist to achieve this with Billboard. I remember being in elementary and middle school and looking at the bo...”

“I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on the issue of gay rights. It is not easy to stand up on that issue when you...”

“I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.”

“I use Spam Arrest because of the amount of junk mail I get. Any legitimate person who wants to send me a message has to jump through hoops before they can be added to my opt-in list.”

“No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.”

“I love producing shows. And so when you're on a show where other people are making decisions you don't necessarily agree with it, after a while you start to feel like a passenger.”

“My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.”

“Los Angeles, which is where I live, happens to be a great place for junk. People have a lot of it, and they sell it and trade it: At these big swap meets, many, many hundreds of dealers of j...”

“Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.”

“Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.”

“On any play where there's a scramble of 22 men, blindside hits and unprotected hits on knees occur.”

“Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.”

“I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.”

“Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.”

“Yes, content is king but excellence is his queen. ~ Onyi Anyado.”

“If you rethink on your decisions, you will become emotional again and that will make you fall multiple times. Always stick to the decisions you made and don't rethink about the losses”

“I coached at Northwestern for eight years, where the admission requirements were high.”

“I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up.”

“People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it...”

“When something poses as obstacle to you,surmount it and use it as a miracle to move on to greater height.”

“Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.”

“Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.”

“Some people conclude that the injustices existing in the world prove there is no God. On the contrary, I conclude that God, being both just and merciful, will and can rectify all inequities...”

“Everybody has their detractors. Some people say arrogance, or whatever they may say. I only have one thing in mind, and that's doing a great job for the country.”

“I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.”

“I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.”

“The world cannot live without the Arctic; it affects every living thing on Earth and acts as a virtual thermostat, reflecting sunlight and cooling the planet.”

“I want to be the girl that's real and show other girls that you don't have to have flawless skin or the 'perfect' body - because that's just not real.”

“The Middle East is a region where oil is thicker than blood.”

“The Clean Air Act of 1970 was designed to control air pollution on a national level by authorizing the development of comprehensive regulations to limit emissions.”

“After he retired, Dad worked at my uncle's boat company, a camp for kids, and eventually became County Commissioner for a term. He is known around town, works at the Food Pantry my mother he...”

“My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don'...”

“My father had been in the German Diplomatic Service, and although he had been in the United States since World War II and out of diplomacy, it was something that was very much talked about i...”

“I want every Filipino woman empowered with information regarding all options available to her regarding family planning.”

“Boxing has been the most difficult thing I've ever done. The biggest challenge in my life. I was a boxer. That was hard. Everything else is pretty easy.”

“How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with...”

“It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly acc...”

“We can no longer take our own way of life for granted - we know that it may be challenged. And we know this, too - and know it ever more deeply - we know that freedom and democracy are not j...”

“the truth will set u free but first it will piss u off”

“Much in the way Olympic athletes optimize their game by paying an enormous - borderline maniacal - amount of attention to things like diet, exercise, sleep, and of course the essential R&R,...”