Every accepted public quote

“It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immo...”

“I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think t...”

“Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams”

“Salman was an amazing human being. There are lot of things about him for years, but he's one of the most genuine, helpful guys out there. There's Salman Khan the superhero, and there's that...”

“My favorite sport is baseball; my cousin is pitcher Heath Bell.”

“I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in...”

“They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,' he said. We're not opposites.' I...”

“I'll be damned if I'm going to let the white man lick me. There's something out here that I've got to do for my kids, and I'm not going to stop until I've done it.”

“When you're the lead, as I was in 'Offender,' you don't have to be perfect all the time; you've got time to get it right.”

“As computer intelligence gets better, what will be possible when we interface our brains with computers? It might sound scary, but early evidence suggests otherwise: interfacing brains with...”

“If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.”

“I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.”

“For years, young adults have adopted extremely liberal world views in their attempts to be different, ultimately failing to see the irony that they've all become the same.”

“You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.”

“My sympathies are Left. On paper and in the soul. But not in my heart or my guts.”

“One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very...”

“I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does.”

“I know that you cannot banish the truth permanently, you can only cloud it temporarily.”

“Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life; don't make it wait any longer.”

“Per amare bisogna innanzitutto essere vivi.”

“We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as...”

“My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.”

“The Obama Justice Department has decided to cease the prosecution of the Muslim Brotherhood's U.S.-based front groups, identified as unindicted coconspirators in the Holy Land Foundation cas...”

“I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print.”

“I had a great career and I enjoyed all of it, with the exception of losing.”

“When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.”

“I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a surviv...”

“My father was a Tuskegee Airmen captain in the Air Force and a very strong personality. He believed in fairness and ethics and living up to the commitments you make to others. He ultimately...”

“The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.”

“'Take Her Up to Monto' is a very satirical song. I don't really like people calling it a folk song because it kind of isn't. It's a bit cheeky calling it 'Take Her Up to Monto,' but the whol...”

“I am not trying to be one of those sadistic, Kubrickian directors who is trying to make these tensions any worse or exploit them, but... the camera sees what the camera sees.”

“I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.”

“Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.”

“If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.”

“I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight...”

“When listening to politicians, distinguish certain words. Look out for the expansive use of 'terrorism' and 'extremism.' Be alive to the fatal notions of 'exception' and 'emergency.' Be angr...”

“Before I scrub and exfoliate, I like to cleanse my face with the Tatcha cleansing oil.”

“The passing years often rob people of the truth. But then again, those passing years also allow people to recreate the truth.”

“No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.”

“I think it's misleading to use a word like 'God' in the way Einstein did. I'm sorry that Einstein did. I think he was asking for trouble, and he certainly was misunderstood.”

“Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please.”

“There's a level of immaturity to people who just can't clean up after themselves.”

“I have never voted for a tax increase.”

“One of the downfalls of not being in Stone Sour was I sat at home for two and a half years, and I hadn't ever done that since we started touring in 1999. I was really nervous and freaked out...”

“There are two kinds of books in the world--the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that they won't let you read in school because then they would have to talk a...”

“People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints...”

“There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.”

“When the forces are aligning against hybridity, it harms everyone, as we are all migrants. Growing up in Pakistan, I know just how oppressive that kind of puritanical mindset can be.”