Every accepted public quote

“Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world.”

“If we found an ashtray in the studio, we'd try to play it and find a part for it in a song.”

“I got into being vegan because I was simply looking to benefit from being more compassionate. I have since come to learn that it is an animal-based diet that is responsible for the overwhelm...”

“In my small, coastal New England town, an hour outside New York, I know many people who have dealt with cancer. I can reel off the names of at least 15 women I know, all in their 40s.”

“In my view, the government has ample justification to inquire about citizenship status on the census and could plainly provide rationales for doing so that would satisfy the Supreme Court.”

“Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.”

“If the so called 'democratic' individuals out there really believe in their talk about diversity, they should let those with truly different opinions be allowed to talk freely in public, too...”

“The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase the efficiency of the tax code and create...”

“I choose many voices to consider and reckon with, rather than just one to tolerate.”

“I like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change.”

“Optimists - people who believe in Britain, who believe in democracy - they're the people I believe who will vote for us to leave and take back control.”

“I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Ven...”

“I eat a lot. I'm a big sandwich dude. Turkey, mayonnaise, mustard, cheese, yes. I love craft services.”

“I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's on...”

“The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.”

“One of the ironies of being with someone you really love for a long time is becoming completely incapable of handling stressful or difficult things by yourself.”

“Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.”

“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”

“Don't make an opinion on me if you don't know nothin' about me.”

“You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.”

“I have a corn creamer that I love. It extracts pulp and juice from kernels, and I simmer that down into a creamed corn that has an almost mashed potato-like consistency. I add butter and hit...”

“As history unfolds, as cultures evolve, of course the intelligences which they value change.”

“You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.”

“I was a very, very slow learner. I was good at nothing.”

“I read the 'New York Post' every day. It keeps me connected to my home town even when I am on the road.”

“I have no doubt that Russia tried to meddle in our election. They're going to continue trying to - just like they have my entire lifetime.”

“The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary,...”

“There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.”

“We always had National Geographic and Astronomy magazines and Popular Mechanics lying around the house. I got interested in exploration and different parts of the world and different parts o...”

“Anything else that is not sexual assault or sexual harassment - those will be typically subject to arbitration. And Uber is like most other companies in that regard.”

“Fully inhale your dream and completely exhale manifestation of it.”

“We are going to have to have different ethics for different artificially intelligent machines. You obviously want a different set of ethics for a military artificially intelligent machine or...”

“That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is something in the culture we are trying to change...”

“Death was for-the other people.”

“I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.”

“My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.”

“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.”

“I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didn't have to be a gigolo. In real life.”

“There is an explosion of information happening, yet people demand quick access to relevant content that cuts through the clutter.”

“I think it's even more important to have quality in this era of Web media than it has ever been. The fusion of platform technology plus talent is what the next wave is all about, and that's...”

“I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.”

“I grew up in a conservative household, my parents were small business owners, so it really just was kind of part of who we were.”

“I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been co...”

“She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.”

“It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.”

“The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communicati...”

“Pull the good out of it and not worry about the drawbacks.”

“I can't tell you how many times I've booked an air ticket only to get to the airport and find out they killed my ticket because it goes into the system, and the program tosses a ticket that...”