Every accepted public quote

“Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.”

“There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the politica...”

“PayPal exists because banks are not interoperable: I can't efficiently pay you $10 unless I'm giving you a $10 bill. So we're all on PayPal and Venmo, I need interoperability on the same led...”

“It's a tribal state, and it always will be. Whether we like it or not, whenever we withdraw from Afghanistan, whether it's now or years from now, we'll have an incendiary situation. Should w...”

“I felt bad about the controversy because they stopped playing my songs on American radio stations. But there was nothing wrong with what I did. Now everybody sings the national anthem the wa...”

“Big games are usually about doing the simple things well - not trying to pull a rabbit out of a hat.”

“In all honesty, Hilary Clinton can't fill a Starbucks even if they offered free ventis.”

“One of the things is, in the writing process, if you do it enough, you have a sense of where you are. I didn't have that with the first book as I was writing it. Now, as I write books, I hav...”

“I feel that contemporary music, with very few exceptions, is missing the voice. You see an award show, you see a hundred extras on set dancing and special effects, and you don't see that sol...”

“I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level.”

“I'm looking forward to working for the 'Tribune' because any company that can invest in the Chicago Cubs has a view of the future we cannot begin to comprehend.”

“A little truth seasons a lie like salt.”

“People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.”

“Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.”

“I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.”

“I feel like I am a better person because of my struggles, because of my challenges and persevering through them and realizing the mistakes that I've made, correcting them.”

“You have all this education theory, and people try to make larger statements than maybe what their data would back up, because they've done these small experiments that are tied to a very pa...”

“My relationship with fashion is playful and very expressive of what I'm feeling at the time.”

“Hands still in the air, Jordan reached back and gently caressed her cheek. Dying for this woman would be no hardship. He'd die a thousand times over if it would take away her pain. Since he...”

“The real fans do not just admire the star of their choice, they identify with him or her, while the star, unlike Joan Crawford, comes to need the fans' love, admiration, and constant interes...”

“This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It does...”

“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”

“Sometimes being happy takes effort. Invest time and energy in yourself and your happiness.”

“I'm pretty much done with political commentary. I've said everything I could possibly say. I've been a big mouth for long enough.”

“The truth which sets men free is the truth which most men fear to accept.”

“Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness.”

“You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.”

“In the Eagles, you have specific assignments. You have vocal parts and musical parts that need to be exactly in place at the right time. And if all of us do our job, it becomes something big...”

“Success is not achieved; its written”

“Basically, I've always had a complex with the way I walk. I've not always been told I've got a bad walk, but someone's always commented on my walk.”

“When I have a good pair of shoes, I wear them over and over. Whether it's nice sneakers or a cool pair of combat boots, splurge on a pair you love that you can wear over and over with totall...”

“Lie beside me, oh my beloved! For thy thorns are more pleasurable than the petals of the world. Hold me in thy arms of hope, for the truth of separation can rest tonight.”

“I am hope.”

“I've been on TV a long time, and I've never had a catch phrase.”

“Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.”

“If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of...”

“My mom studied biology and my dad studied chemistry and some physics and he is a physician, but he had a very strong interest in astronomy and astrophysics and exploration in general.”

“The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.”

“The podcast 'A History of Jazz' began telling its story in February - 100 years after the recording of 'Livery Stable Blues' by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the start of jazz as a legit...”

“Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.”

“I've been a runner a long time. When I first got into it, I started doing small triathlons in Chicago, and I just did it to get in shape. When I got out of college, I put on a few pounds lik...”

“I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan Pottinger, who was then head of the office for civil rights of the Dep...”

“I think people like to be thrilled and excited. And a scary movie is a safe way to do that because you're not actually doing it. It's entertainment. You know that you're in the confines of t...”

“Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. B...”

“Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.”

“There are some moments that are pretty distressing in 'Prometheus.' In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing.”

“The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.”

“If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.”