Every accepted public quote

“Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know?...”

“A long-running argument exists over whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In my view, they certainly do.”

“No hotels have gone out of business because of Airbnb... Airbnb is not a perfect substitute for a hotel. We excel at different things.”

“He said focus. The word focus. I hear angels singing. Everything goes dark except for a light that beams down on Sean. It is a God-given sign- like when people see the Virgin Mary in their g...”

“I would love to stay at SNL forever. But you can't stay in the same place. People think you're a loser.”

“If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you w...”

“I try to pack light with a folding leather suit bag. Anything more than five days, I need to check in my luggage. What takes the most space? Chef jackets, aprons and tools.”

“I'm a 'Harry-Potter'-till-I-die kind of person. Those are the movies I grew up on. I was like, 'Why would I want to watch any other movies when there's 'Air Bud' and 'Harry Potter?'' It make...”

“Say a piece of pottery is broken, and it's fixed, and they use gold in the adhesive and in the sealant. It becomes more precious than it was before it was broken in the first place.”

“Afghanistan is doomed if women are barred once again from public life.”

“It's always been my weakness that my concentration tends to go when I get into scrappy frames.”

“Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.”

“Chickpeas are one of my favourite things to serve with chorizo or lamb meatballs; they also work brilliantly as the quiet partner in a vibrant alphonso mango salad.”

“Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years, but it seems largely hidden from the world of comm...”

“I never let any of my sons beat me at videogames.”

“Accurate information is a key part of motivation.”

“I didn't think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interned without a hearing.”

“I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.”

“I'm a Weeble. Remember Weebles? The toy whose tagline was, 'Weebles wobble but they don't fall down?' I'm resilient. Oh, and I work really hard.”

“This notion that we're going to prop up foreign governments, that we're going to invade other countries for some kind of perceived benefit where we're going to install somebody who's going t...”

“When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.”

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect”

“With the growth of both urbanization and globalization, consumers are becoming increasingly disconnected from their food.”

“I might wake up in the morning and go out for a six- to eight-mile run, and then in the afternoon, I might swim two or three kilometres. The next day, I'll mix it up and do a military circui...”

“There, about a dozen times during the day, the wind drives over the sky the swollen clouds, which water the earth copiously, after which the sun shines brightly, as if freshly bathed, and fl...”

“Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth.”

“In the same way you pick idly at chips, promising this is literally your last one, you may be in a relationship that you know isn't going anywhere, but you're hungry for love, and it feels l...”

“I basically went from finishing 'Venom.' I had a week off with my family. And then went straight into prep on 'Zombieland 2.'”

“I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before...”

“I think Charlize Theron is just as good when she is looking really pretty in a movie as when she gains 10 pounds and puts on a nose. I applaud her - good for her that she doesn't care. But s...”

“Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook - they share information wit...”

“I love acting like I'm in love. It's a very positive thing.”

“I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.”

“I just loved Jake The Snake because of that character and how he cut a promo. That dark nature of his character was amazing.”

“The thing that had been, it is that which shall be; And that which is done is that which shall be done.”

“Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.”

“Don't let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you're stupid.”

“Balotelli, and a few others, have everything that I would have liked to have. It angers me that he does not use his talent to his full advantage.”

“We gravitated to the idea of social entrepreneurs when it was a fairly nascent thing. We began to build the organization, focused on investing in and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Not lo...”

“I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.”

“The other exception where we did not at all restore the place to its original condition is the Surrounded Islands. Before we installed our fabric, we had our workers remove 42 tons of garbag...”

“I would say that I'm opinionated and clumsy and I am definitely led by my heart over my head.”

“It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.”

“If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.”

“I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point.”

“In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers call...”

“There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science, and then there's somebody who checks the checkers and somebody who checks the checker's chec...”

“Because no one needs to live for ever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.”