Every accepted public quote

“My cousin was Ron O'Neal, who was 'Superfly.' Films like 'Shaft' and 'Superfly' were the biggest things out there in the early '70s. It's hard to remember just how big they were - how much i...”

“Nothing succeeds like address.”

“I'm living with two guys. I'm living with a slob and a guy who sleeps all day.”

“The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?”

“Citizens United is a disgrace of a decision, holding that corporate money is corporate speech and entitled to the same First Amendment protection as human speech. As a result, corporations n...”

“Stern and critical, my father couldn't accept how feminine and dainty I was in comparison to my rough-and-tumble brother.”

“More than anything, I just want people to, like, let themselves be taken on the ride that 'Euphoria' will be over eight episodes and just, like, let it, like, hit them.”

“I'm pretty low-key. I travel fairly light, especially on the tour.”

“I may not have trekked through the galaxies in reality. But I have trekked all over this planet: Australia, Asia, Latin America, Europe.”

“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.”

“My professional career only began at 21, really.”

“Not all journalists are really journalists. They ask such stupid questions sometimes, especially the newer ones, and because... these people can't tell if you're joking around, you just can'...”

“'V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human.”

“Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.”

“Technology has allowed the creation of media echo chambers, so that a person can reinforce, rather than debate, viewpoints.”

“Having set its tonal template, Vertigo Crime laid low for a few months before starting in earnest at the beginning of 2010.”

“The only gift my dad ever bought me is still in my jewelry box. It died at 10 minutes to 11 decades ago, but the gold Caravelle watch keeps my dad alive. A watch isn't about keeping time. It...”

“The enemies agenda is destruction, his strategy is division and his tactics is on little differences. Mind you he is not going to be happy until he sees you divided.”

“Black Lives Matter is the culmination of racial divide. They're nothing more than the last socially acceptable hate group in America.”

“I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn't rea...”

“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.”

“I'm European, and my roots are in Europe. But Boston is one of the most, in a way, European American cities. And I think I'll find a lot of similarities, historically and architecturally and...”

“That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.”

“Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.”

“My greatest personal Survivor Series moment was facing The Rock in 1998 and having Mr. McMahon turn on me. That set into motion one of the best series of matches I've ever had and some of th...”

“There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do wh...”

“The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.”

“You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.”

“When things don't happen in my life, I believe that I've been pushed into another path for a reason, and there's a bigger picture.”

“When we reach reflexively for something to dull an ache inside of us, in that very moment of reaching, we are hiding from our pain. We're storing it away. Tamping it down.”

“I do think the strategy of Trump, and now the Republican Party, is to eviscerate the idea of objective truth.”

“Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.”

“There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take th...”

“I was terrified of my weakness, of my sharp tongue, of my every flaw. I was terrified that this moment, my chance to live in happiness for however short a time we may have had, would be ruin...”

“There wasn't a single good character in 'Titanic' who was English and this is typical.”

“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”

“I use my clothing choices as a way to express how I feel.”

“It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.”

“I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.”

“We cannot fully appreciate eternal life and all its bliss without first understanding the important testing ground of human life on Earth. We cannot be all until we are one. We cannot be rai...”

“It was an interesting experience to work alongside the solicitor general's team and then turn around and argue against them. You certainly grow as a lawyer from getting such a varied set of...”

“Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.”

“You should never go on diet and must follow a healthy lifestyle.”

“When God asks a question, it is always rhetorical.”

“I never wanted to be famous and live my life in the glare of publicity.”

“One has to inculcate a feeling that if I build a road, then a Hindu or a Muslim or a Parsi or a Christian can walk on that road. We all have equal right to share water, electricity, or road.”

“Perceptions are essential in politics.”

“Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.”