Every accepted public quote

“The left is really good at selling bad ideas and the right is really bad at selling good ideas.”

“There's time, this lasting forever.”

“I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.”

“Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic Republic is like.”

“In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.”

“Since 2000, we have lost 2.7 million manufacturing jobs, of which 500,000 jobs were in high-tech industries such as telecommunications and electronics.”

“We seem to have lost our British sense of humour. It's a great shame. We have to be so careful nowadays; we have lost a lot of humour because people are too frightened of getting too near to...”

“I'm like the youth's big brother now. I have to be that voice for them.”

“It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.”

“A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.”

“I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans canno...”

“I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.”

“Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.”

“We're a country of five-second sound bites and 30-second commercials. Eight years of one person is just too much.”

“Violence against women in this country is not levied against just Democrats, but Republicans as well... not just rich people or poor people. It knows no gender, it knows no ethnicity, it kno...”

“Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.”

“I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.”

“I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about socialism and humanism and the other great ideas that...”

“One must not trifle with love.”

“I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 20 years?”

“You will only understand why a river flows when you reach its mouth.”

“I'm just an American citizen like everyone else and I'm not sitting at the power table in the room where it all happens.”

“I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance... I sometimes think that this generation...”

“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”

“If we are serious about our human wellbeing - from local communities to the global world economy - we need to now reconnect our entire world to the planet.”

“I was hiking a five-day loop - alone - in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw a large body on the trail ahead. It had brown fur with a cinnamon tinge that was draped ac...”

“People promise each other the world until they are not given it. We give until we no longer receive something of equal or greater value. Life and love is nothing more than re-gifting. When w...”

“I really liked the helicopter pilot in 'Dawn of the Dead', when he gets bitten and comes out of the elevator. That guy was amazing. He did this incredible walk that we didn't even know about...”

“When at the CIA, I was fond of saying that many jihadis join the movement for the same reasons that young Americans join the Crips and the Bloods: youthful alienation, the need to belong to...”

“I was 4 years old and wanted to be the scariest witch anyone had ever seen. My mom painted my face green, darkened my eyebrows, and put a mole on my nose so I could fully look the part.”

“Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.”

“We're kind of a guinea pig generation.”

“Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in...”

“I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers.”

“I think reviewers are sexist... This isn't to sound bitter, but I think you're more likely to get a critical kicking if you're a woman. I just think that's a fact. I really think less value...”

“You make every day perfect.”

“Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent wa...”

“I was always inspired by the people I was around, like the older people spitting in my area or in Northampton, but I just always wanted to be better than the people that was around me.”

“A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an over...”

“And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dre...”

“I was a very keen reader of science fiction.”

“My career has always thrived on hard work and good relationships with people I work with and just continuing grinding.”

“I believe many people - especially small- and medium-sized enterprises across the European Union - are disenchanted with Europe because we haven't delivered the goods.”

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”

“For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.”

“Art isn't something you marry, it's something you rape.”

“If you're constantly stimulated by being called away to the buzzing and the excitement of what's on your phone, solitude seems kind of scary.”

“You want to put out good vibes for the viewers, even if so many stories that have to be told and that need to be told have a lot of darkness in them, because the world has a lot of darkness...”