Every accepted public quote

“I try not to bring my phone to the gym - it's too tempting to play with it.”

“I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.”

“My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.”

“The Flight 93 Memorial isn't that easy to get to. It isn't like the memorials in New York City or Washington, D.C., where you may go on a business trip or family vacation. No, in order to ge...”

“I've always gravitated towards the beats, obviously. And when I was growing up, I always loved funk music or even - dare I say it - disco.”

“Sadness and gladness succeed each other.”

“I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're u...”

“People called me 'cottage cheese thighs' all through school.”

“We prided ourselves at Oregon, where teams said they were going to try to beat us down and try to manhandle us, and maybe in the first quarter they were running with us, but it was just, 'Le...”

“Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.”

“Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.”

“Working women, moms, students, they don't have a lot of time to spend on their faces.”

“I'm not Bill Gates. And I'm not Ted Turner.”

“Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between...”

“I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound l...”

“Nepotism is a natural thing that happens in every field.”

“Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony.”

“Technically, my first acting job was in one of my videos for a song called 'Retrospect For Life,' which Lauryn Hill directed and featured an actress by the name of N'bushe Wright, who played...”

“A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.”

“I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spe...”

“Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world.”

“Too many communities are living in fear as violent crime rises. So we need to reform our justice system to keep our streets safe and protect the law-abiding majority. That means putting an e...”

“I stopped thinking; I just go out, and everything is in the moment. I just stop thinking and start moving - you just gotta be you.”

“Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.”

“Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they're worth it. I earned them. I di...”

“The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.”

“'Blue Nights' is a story of loss: simple, wrenching, inconsolable loss.”

“Eventually, there's certain limit in telling bare fact through words. It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand.”

“Rip Rig & Panic was a milestone for me, and I've always been really thankful that I did that when I was 16. It saved me for when I suddenly became really successful later on. So even when my...”

“...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its cause.”

“Getting into drag almost seemed like, not my destiny, but you know how a caterpillar is gonna become a butterfly no matter what? It felt very like that.”

“I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.”

“I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over...”

“Whatever hypnotizing charms I may have over boys, did not in fact work on three hundred pound girl elves. Not that I would ever try it again.”

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

“I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain. --Valentine, while in Italy (pg 26...”

“The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels - the essence of the Greens' th...”

“I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.”

“[...] death is only a small interruption.”

“If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by.”

“Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.”

“The taste of a fruit for a king and a pauper is the same.”

“I am simply not interested in the pots and pans affair, and neither can I bring myself to be interested in the same. I have such great cooks in the family that I would rather manage the othe...”

“We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to...”

“It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction.”

“If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.”

“The land and the ocean are living, breathing entities that supported us, clothed us, fed us, and nurtured our culture from time immemorial.”

“Overhyped books are the empty calories of the literary world.”