Every accepted public quote

“Everything that I embody is the fluidity of my own consumption.”

“One of the most troubling things about the term 'fake news' is that it has become a force field against accusations you don't like.”

“You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.”

“We need a system where all of our teams have the opportunity to compete and to make a few dollars. That's not a bad desire for collective bargaining for a sports league, and it's great for o...”

“Child is a Mirror which reflects you.”

“A lot can change in the editing room.”

“You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.”

“Forever is a hypnotic version of infinity.”

“Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy hero...”

“I simply didn't believe we needed a constitutional amendment to protect women's rights. I knew of only one law that was discriminatory toward women, a law in North Dakota stipulating that a...”

“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.”

“Let your prayer be perpetual.”

“I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.”

“Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - ther...”

“I'm a huge Bruce Springsteen and Duran Duran fan.”

“The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.”

“Strip away the factual misinformation repeatedly peddled about the Human Rights Act and almost everyone acknowledges that it works well in practice. Police up and down the country have found...”

“I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big. I wanted there to be chaos in the house.”

“Generally speaking, we as black people have been celebrated more for when we are subservient when we are not being leaders or kings or in the center of our own narrative driving it forward.”

“If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.”

“Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!”

“The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.”

“The greatest wonder of all time is the love of God.”

“Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.”

“Separate yourself from those who hinder your vision. Make a choice to walk away from the trap set to ensnare you. Realize when someone is pulling you backwards every time you take a step for...”

“I grew up on Edgar Allen Poe, and I loved Alfred Hitchcock's movies.”

“Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.”

“I learned a lot from Ana Ortiz, who plays my sister in 'Sleeping with the Fishes'.”

“One medal. One shot. One lap. Eight riders. No lanes. No right of way. Just go.”

“I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.”

“Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.”

“If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying st...”

“If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.”

“When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.”

“If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war.”

“Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering...”

“Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.”

“I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above.”

“Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes.”

“Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming!”

“What is it about our specific belief in God and His wishes that makes us so angry at the specific beliefs of another? What is it about the teachings of our respective deities that makes us m...”

“If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat!”

“The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.”

“She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide it aside for a little bit, and let her please, please just be somewhere and...”

“The 'Natmeg' from England's Natalie Sciver attracted a lot of attention as a brilliant piece of improvisation, which requires every bit as much talent as a Tillakaratne Dilshan 'scoop,' or a...”

“When my sister and I came along, my father's political life was completely over. He ran for president the year I was born. So that was the end of it. He had been congressman first, then gove...”

“People have a constitutional right to have semiautomatic rifles.”

“If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?”