Every accepted public quote

“It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.”

“I write with the entire alphabet, not just the popular letters. Readers don't want to lose themselves in the text. They want to find themselves in it.”

“My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.”

“Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.”

“Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.”

“Celebrate your child's achievement, then rotate it when the next mini-masterpiece comes along. Then chuck the old picture. Don't worry that you're throwing away a memory. Your children will...”

“I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the NBA and the Olympics. I first got into sculpting when I created a s...”

“The ledger, the distributed database - it's called a Blockchain - is held in the cloud by all the parties involved. It can't be broken by any of them. It's cryptographically too strong. You...”

“The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died...”

“For so long, I was ashamed of my past, and I think that crippled me a lot in having confidence.”

“I'm quite happy having stuff like quinoa, sushi, and even vegetable juices.”

“I don't buy idea of second chance. With hope we make a lot of chances.”

“I definitely applaud Netflix and all of those guys, whether it's Hulu or whoever, for doing original programming.”

“Maybe the best example of the unmuscled hero is Humphrey Bogart in 'Casablanca.' Bogart was 15 years older than Ingrid Bergman, and it did not matter at all. He had the experience, the confi...”

“Israel's system of proportional representation rarely produces stable government.”

“Fred Thompson was a law partner of mine.”

“You have to be grateful for what you have.”

“I stand before you a totally healthy person.”

“Right from childhood, I have enjoyed films which belong to the thriller genre. As a kid, I would read novels written by Agatha Christie and James Hadley Chase.”

“Science finally agrees with spirituality that we human beings are, in essence, energy and not matter that we appear to be.”

“The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of that; she was the ultimate celebrity of excess and glamour, and she worked major sun hats.”

“Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's a danger of science fiction in particular, as opposed to...”

“People assumed we called the record 'Murray Street' because of its proximity to the World Trade Centre, but that wasn't it at all. Before the attacks, I had simply been walking around taking...”

“Things that I had created or morphed into, I almost became. I felt like a broken man having to go back to plain old Matt Hardy in many ways.”

“You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up. These are things that are okay for cartoon characters to do.”

“Ethan Allen was convinced that every planet out there has its own intelligent extraterrestrials. And this, as you can imagine, is a radical, inspiring, but very unsettling, idea.”

“After I released 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' people started saying, Oh, it's kind of risky. You're coming out with a religious song. And I was thinking, Really? I grew up in Oklahoma; I always...”

“I spur my horse past the ruined city; the ruined city, that wakes the traveler's thoughts: ancient battlements, high and low; old grave mounds, great and small. Where the shadow of a single...”

“In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.”

“I am not a spokesperson for the trans community, I am not. The media kind of projects me as being the spokesperson, but from my standpoint, I am not. I am a spokesperson for my story, and th...”

“Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.”

“Shanghai was a peculiar city: so many people; everyone seemed to be working all the time. The skyline was beautiful.”

“If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.”

“I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dress, what my shape is or how I speak. I've always written my own scripts. I've always been t...”

“I am the CEO and co-founder of Purpose - a social movement incubator and agency. We work on ways to help millions of people combine their power as citizens, consumers and cultural agents.”

“To be in 'Vogue' has to mean something. It's an endorsement. It's a validation.”

“I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to have the best future for our nation, then it must change fundam...”

“I do not need to compete for attention, I merely require competent attention...”

“When learning was monopolized by the monks in the Middle Ages, people specialized only in warfare and statecraft. And even these were not altogether free from the scholastic influence.”

“I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.”

“I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general p...”

“In college, I would follow Bob Dylan around, and I would show up to a concert, and he would sing some song he hadn't sang in a long time, and it would speak to something, and I would think i...”

“It doesn't matter if I'm in a boardroom pitching to a group, attempting to perfect the latte heart, or stopping a running back on 4th and 2. If I'm passionate and willing to devote the time...”

“I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.”

“I still have a dream of one day - I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house - him and I building a house for me. I would truly love to do that.”

“Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.”

“The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.”

“Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source reli...”