Every accepted public quote

“I'm not just somebody shuffling around in a monster suit. I'm a kind of puppeteer from the inside who is attempting through arm and body movements to give the creatures I play a sense of per...”

“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.”

“It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.”

“No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.”

“But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I...”

“I grew up in an international school community my whole life, and my national identity is very confused, so I grew up listening to music from all around the world.”

“I cannot, will never, understand these couples who hate each other, who conduct open warfare in front of their children - the kind of people who have to drop the kids off at the end of the d...”

“It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one...”

“The Obama administration has consistently refused to recognize Jerusalem as Israeli territory, let alone as the capital of Israel.”

“Honestly, it's such a personal issue, I really don't think my feud with Edge will ever end. It's almost comparable to the Bret Hart/Shawn Michaels thing. There is just such legit hatred betw...”

“The reality is, to watch Jon Stewart, you already have to have watched the news. In other words, it's not funny if he does a joke about John McCain and they don't know who John McCain is.”

“Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.”

“Whenever I see a stock market explode, six to 12 months later you are in a full blown recovery.”

“I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.”

“The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.”

“There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music,...”

“I'm adopted by my uncle and aunt, who I look to as my parents and people who really did everything they could to put me on the right path. I'm really grateful to them.”

“Fighting, for me, is like skydiving without the parachute.”

“I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.”

“I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn't feel like a regular hospital all dre...”

“Honestly, if you want me to keep it 100, Marilyn Manson has as much style as Kanye West and Pharrell Williams. He has a lot of style. I'm telling you, it's crazy. It might be a little darker...”

“I can talk about sports and stuff, but I have a season pass for 'Antiques Roadshow' on my TiVo.”

“There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.”

“Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the additional act.”

“I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if that doesn't happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on.”

“Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite.”

“I failed the most important people in my life, you know, on September 8, 2009. People who were relying on me more than anything.”

“So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.”

“I did side planks for my obliques, which are one of my trouble areas. And traditional planks tone your back so you don't have that little bit of fat hanging over your bra. Ugh!”

“I would wear a top that is not very tight. I would probably wear a scarf, which I find one of the best pieces of clothing there is.”

“Tens of millions of Americans are modern-day slaves - unable to retire early, or working in jobs they don't really want, just for the health insurance they need to take care of themselves, a...”

“I try to swim against the current as much as possible when it comes to the tribalism that defines the way people do politics on social media, and I try to present myself as an individual and...”

“No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.”

“The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.'”

“You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.”

“I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. 'Fly Me to th...”

“A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.”

“Emotion-enabled wearable glasses can help individuals who are visually impaired read the faces of others, and it can help individuals on the autism spectrum interpret emotion, something that...”

“I think I have to remain eternally oblivious to age. Honestly, when you put a number on it yourself, it's just like, Why? Why do that?”

“I've always felt like I was a college coach and I was a college coach for Syracuse. It just felt like the right thing.”

“For years, I have been inspired by the inventive and masterful storytelling of the 'SAO' franchise. I'm thrilled to get the opportunity to work with such talented partners to bring this cutt...”

“I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.”

“The world in general has meaning, deep meaning at times. This cannot be dismissed as a delusion, an artifact of chemicals.”

“If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activiti...”

“Before I did 'Rush Hour,' I was a big fan of Jackie Chan movies and I had seen all of them.”

“When I first encountered the 'Sigma Force' novels - long before I became friends with Jim Rollins - a bookseller told me that these stories were about 'geeks with guns.' While not entirely a...”

“Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.”

“My early comics are really reflective of being kind of a befuddled, single loser in the Bay Area, and I think having kids has been by far the most profound impact on me as a person and as an...”