Every accepted public quote

“Have the courage to stand by what is right, even if the wrong thing takes you there faster.”

“I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution.”

“I love the 'Daily Show,' and I think Jon Stewart is hysterical. But literally, the answer to every single problem is, 'Congress should pass a new law.' It's this unbelievably optimistic view...”

“What fascinates me about London is its multi-ethnicity, the coexistence of cultures and religions, but I do not see myself living here for very long. It's too big, too much stress, too much...”

“Two thousand years ago, we abandoned imperialism and militarism. We have been peace-lovers ever since.”

“You've seen it in the news - the radical left in our country, stinging from their 2016 election losses, has become increasingly desperate and unhinged. They want nothing more than to push th...”

“The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath lacks. His state o...”

“In my head, at least, the business of spinning stories has no closing time. Twists in my characters' lives, glimpses of their secrets, obstacles to their dreams... all arrive unbidden when I...”

“Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in...”

“Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.”

“I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.”

“I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolu...”

“Everyone has this vision of Jones as a maniacal ogre. Wrong. He was charming, sweet, and a fabulous speaker.”

“When you compare the relatively modest tax that will ensue from prohibiting companies from receiving a subsidy and deducting that subsidy, the benefits dramatically outweigh the costs.”

“NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.”

“We spend millions of dollars every year just for the right to pay our taxes, but once again, do we really need to do that? Why don't we simplify it? And I've certainly looked at fair tax, I'...”

“As an entrepreneur and employer, in the fairly recent past I have been astonished at how difficult it has been to get young people to take the idea of getting a job seriously.”

“Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music...”

“Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.”

“There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there's also an Italian actor I admire a great deal: Alberto Sordi.”

“I want people who see my watches to go, 'Wow!' And the more they look at them, the more they go into it, the more I want them to say, 'Wow!' I work on a razor blade between gimmickry and ama...”

“Killing animals and eating meat have been significant components of human evolution that had a synergistic relationship with other key attributes that have made us human, with larger brains,...”

“I think I'm overrated as a recruiter.”

“I'd love to see an openly gay player, a really, really good gay player come out.”

“Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor c...”

“People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.”

“When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times.”

“I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it me...”

“New York's niche is content, and content is becoming more valuable. Just think about what is more valuable: MTV or the cable system that you use to get MTV? Howard Stern or the radio station...”

“If it can give me wisdom, I will go for that road and figure a way of dealing with the obstacles. I will bank on my intelligence and ability, both gained through eons of evolution, to help m...”

“I used to rely too much on arrangements and production, things like dancers and explosions.”

“In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure...”

“I just think people are fed up with people who are career politicians who don't stand for anything.”

“My husband, after two weeks of dating, asked me, if our relationship were to work out, would I be OK with our first boy being named Ace.”

“You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.”

“This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.”

“It's just part of the NFL. There's going to be moving parts constantly. There's going to be roster changes. There's going to be coaches going somewhere else.”

“I do think, with people in comedy, you can have your time, as it were, and then you don't realise that it might have gone. I hope it hasn't for me. I think what I do is, I just... I just try...”

“Say a child raises this beautiful beet. It's going to give her a sense of ownership, and that changes everything. You stop taking things for granted; you become less wasteful.”

“In the aftermath of September 11, you can't - as Tony Blair was so fond of suggesting - draw a line under historical events. They don't go away. They come back.”

“This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.”

“He that shuns trifles must shun the world.”

“When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.”

“As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult as he had when a child.”

“My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.”

“Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagr...”

“I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.”

“Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.”