Every accepted public quote

“It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that they hold ministers and public servants to account.”

“Media cycles end, but the Internet never forgets. This is a valuable lesson, especially for college students.”

“Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.”

“I look at old performers like James Brown: back in the day when you actually had to work hard to get poppin'. I look at all those types of performers. Even like Kid n' Play and the Fresh Pri...”

“I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers,...”

“When you see John Boehner crying, believe you me, it's because he cannot control, uh, that wild contingency called the Tea Party.”

“Throughout my college years, I'd watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another 'Buffy' DVD set. I didn't know much about the series, but I was filled with that obnoxious se...”

“At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when my book ended I'd end, a great wind would sweep through my rooms carrying the...”

“We need not only one Cesar Chavez; we need a thousand Cesar Chavezes.”

“Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.”

“The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.”

“Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and loc...”

“I stumbled upon the 3x1 shop because it's a few doors up from the 'V' magazine offices on Mercer. The store is intense: They can take your measurements, and the sewers are right there behind...”

“Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.”

“That's the trick in this business: if you want longevity, just keep people guessing a little bit.”

“I'm actually a good cook.”

“If you haven't used Bitcoin first-hand, you may not get the inherent advantage of a quicker appreciation and understanding of its potential. Seeing assets move swiftly without intermediaries...”

“I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it's not like I was ever in the stratosphere of Kirk Cameron or Scott Baio.”

“Maturity is knowing everybody has their own persception and they are right when we see them from their perspective.”

“Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're b...”

“A lot of people accuse me of copying Courtney Love.”

“It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road....”

“I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.”

“We all have a fight - some an easy one, and some a big one, and if you have formed the idea that there is a kind of dividing line in the world, and that on the one side is the good, and on t...”

“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”

“Market forces will one day crush the Federal Reserve. One day, the market forces will reverse.”

“A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.”

“One of my favorite things - and I am sure everybody else's in this Chamber - is to give away money. You really don't get much opposition when you give away money.”

“I would say I'm a medium-sized 'Star Trek' fan. I love the universe that it's created.”

“I usually just watch YouTube videos or reruns on Netflix of older TV shows like 'Family Guy' and stuff. But I still really want to start watching more TV.”

“Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.”

“When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.”

“I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.”

“That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.”

“I've been very supportive of the Islanders. I'm at every home opener.”

“Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter...”

“Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.”

“When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about t...”

“The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving research.”

“I would like to uncover the secrets of the universe.”

“It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.”

“One of the biggest challenges we have, folks, is making liberty and freedom cool.”

“But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demon...”

“Every day I don't Google my name, there's another beautiful day.”

“No Persian meal is complete without an abundance of herbs.”

“I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.”

“In terms of having a business, I wanted to let it go beyond what my personal taste is. Basically, I'm in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don't have a lot of scope, and I'...”

“It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have...”