Every accepted public quote

“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.”

“I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.”

“A critic is not a creative artist, is a commenter, a midwife of creativity, but not creative himself.”

“I know all of the antiques stores in Buenos Aires. I've been in every one of them, picking things out.”

“When improvisation is properly applied, it is compositional thinking, sped way up.”

“Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own.”

“Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?”

“Normally, I'm a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy.”

“The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.”

“You know you are grown sentimental when you start counting the cygnets on the duck pond in the park to be sure none has perished since you counted last.”

“I love representing Minnesota in the Senate.”

“You are the grace of my life So tender, so undeserved Hard to believe you're my wife Even harder to put what I feel into words If I need evidence God is good Just looking at you is enough Yo...”

“What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums.”

“Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.”

“It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.”

“Don't dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don't mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice is good, complement your sushi chef on the rice.”

“Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years...”

“There are no rules. Just follow your heart.”

“If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.”

“As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member.”

“The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.”

“Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.”

“Like, I haven't even tried a cherry before, because I'm such a picky eater, and I behave like a 9-year-old.”

“Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.”

“It's all about balance, and I have so much happiness in my career and am fortunate to travel the world and see so many amazing things - it will also be nice to be anchored to something groun...”

“This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of de...”

“Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics- in my two...”

“Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients.”

“As a comic, I think I'm very verbally oriented about a lot of the stuff that I've written or thought up and how I say it.”

“There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in schools, must nurture creativity systematically and not kill it unwittingly.”

“I love it when I surprise photographers that, despite the fact that I am deaf, I am capable of meeting their vision. I love it that I can read their body language and know what they do not l...”

“Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. To many people, being nice in order to be liked is more important. There's equal merit in t...”

“I found my partner, my life partner, and I really am in love with my wife, and we have a lovely time, and we share a long history together and children together, and that's it.”

“Technology companies tend to operate in winner-take-all spaces and thus adopt a very high-commitment culture.”

“As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere.”

“With regards to music, I don't want to pigeonhole myself and say I am a musician or a visual artist, because I feel like it's all-encompassing, and I feel like every bit of my art is related...”

“Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.”

“I must say, I've been in the studio with Jay Z, dog... I thought the freestyle thing was a myth. But, bro!”

“I discovered that my insecurities and my flaws were things that I actually need to embrace, and I let them become my superpowers.”

“If you're successful in the market, it should be because you have the best products. Then your customers like you, not because then you cut corners, or you get a tax break, or you don't info...”

“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a proc...”

“The GSEs became powerful advocates for their own bottom lines, providing substantial financial support for political candidates who supported the GSE agenda.”

“Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.”

“I made my living in comedy, but I'm not a silly person. I've got all these sides to me. Even in my movies that I've written myself, the characters sometimes border on great anger or nutsines...”

“What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just d...”

“...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.”

“I usually dislike second books in series. The only second installment I ever loved was 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and I think that was wonderful because it evolved the characters while not s...”

“In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat.”