Every accepted public quote

“I was in New York City on 9/11. Grief remains from that awful day, but not only grief. There is fear, too, a fear informed by the knowledge that whatever my worst nightmare is, there is some...”

“My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.”

“Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.”

“I've been a fan of the Marvel Universe since I was a little child.”

“To the extent that trolley problem scenarios exist in the real world, AVs will make them rarer, not more frequent.”

“Manila is like a small New York. Nothing works, and everybody's out to get the better of you.”

“nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.”

“Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.”

“The talk show, as a genre, has been in decline for a while. It started with Jerry Springer, when the talk shows suffered a metamorphosis, going from the real and social issues to the hair-ra...”

“I want to create a collection, almost like a trilogy of sorts. Whereas 'Milk and Honey' was very much like holding a mirror up to yourself, the second book is turning that mirror around and...”

“Obama wants people, as many people as he can get, covered by the government, exchanges, however you want to phrase it, and the more the better, and the sooner, the better, making it impossib...”

“I grew up in a super suburban place where the mundane middle-class issues were similar to what Ray Davies was singing about. All the topics he was singing about were middle-class woes and hu...”

“Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try...”

“It is a fiction to imagine that the haphazard paper chits of old are more private than the modern digital alternative. Paper records have always presented a security risk.”

“I wanted to design a line based on Hollywood's Golden Era. I talked with Stephen Burrows and with Willi Smith and with one or two other people, but it just seems like such a hard field to br...”

“I always felt like the wrestling business was better off with two viable mainstream promotions.”

“I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a...”

“Where I am today... I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people t...”

“When I was growing up and going to art school and learning about African-American art, much of it was a type of political art that was very didactic and based on the '60s, and a social colle...”

“When any fat is heated to frying temperatures, toxic volatile chemicals that can cause genetic mutations are released into the air.”

“We need a president that can heal, that can bring people together, that can get us back. We have so much common pain in this country that can get us back to a sense of common purpose and com...”

“The Internet is ultimately about innovation and integration, but you don't get the innovation unless you integrate Web technology into the processes by which you run your business.”

“You know One Direction do a lot of up tempo songs, but when they did that Ed Sheeran song 'Little Things,' that was probably their biggest song off their last album, so it shows you that a b...”

“On a plane, you're in your own little bubble, so I try and enjoy it and don't get worried or frustrated about delays.”

“Politics is not a good location or a vocation for anyone lazy, thin-skinned or lacking a sense of humour.”

“The United States must not allow North Korea to exacerbate tensions between our key strategic allies in Asia. As the leader of the free world, the United States needs to support our regional...”

“Any opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it.”

“Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.”

“We remain essentially a nation under siege.”

“The orchestra confides in me about their music director or their conductor, and I've never seen a conductor that's been liked by everyone.”

“What's more American than young people speaking their mind over things they had to create over pots and pans and electronically because music was taken out of schools? What's more American t...”

“I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't like to hear any sounds. People know not to bother me! I use that time to read, and make li...”

“When I'm abroad it's almost like I'm in a transit lounge. I'm only comfortable when I know the date of departure.”

“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's wh...”

“I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.”

“If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling.”

“Brazil is strewn with ruins of projects - refineries, power plants - begun but never finished. Most of this investment never landed in places or industries that really meshed with the trajec...”

“We, as black people, we have a lot of crooks.”

“When love is suppressed hate takes its place.”

“Hell is truth seen too late.”

“Mankind's role is to fulfil his heaven-sent purpose through a sincere heart that is in harmony with all creation and loves all things.”

“The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a...”

“Our outlines feel the same. I think I can hide inside you.”

“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.”

“The moment somebody says to me, "This is very risky," is the moment it becomes attractive to me.”

“I was an only child and was obviously really bored, so I would entertain my parents by imitating cartoon voices like Scooby Doo, Boo Boo and others.”

“Terry Malick offered me three parts in 'The Thin Red Line.' I was busy shooting other movies while he asked me the first two.”

“I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.”