Every accepted public quote

“I'd suffered many losses in recent years after my father mother uncle aunt and cousin had all passed away. In her final years my mother often lamented that there was no one alive who had kno...”

“In many corners the concept of DACA is a fair and compassionate one, giving reprieve to children brought into the country illegally by their parents. But the way the program is lawfully mand...”

“It's easy to be selfish and focus on what you have to do and what you need to do to accomplish your goals and be like, 'I'll give back later,' but there's no better time than now.”

“We'd like to put an end to SoCal Uncensored, but I really want to spend more time with Bury the Drug Free Bear. I think he's going to be really big.”

“Fundamentally, the solution to economic insecurity is economic prosperity - an achievable goal. But for anyone who has grown up without financial security, there's a shadow that lies over ev...”

“Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.”

“I'm still a Chicagoan in the fact that I can't do Christmas with sand and palm trees. It just doesn't compute - it's not Christmas unless your face hurts when you step outside.”

“How odd that the proponents of free expression think 'free' only applies to them.”

“There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.”

“The Constitution is no simple contract, not because it uses a certain amount of open-ended language, but because its language grants and guarantees many good things, and good things that com...”

“Acting is not my forte.”

“It was completely fifth garde and completely silly and I loved it, because he wasn't afraid to be silly. It was like kissing him first - I could do whatever I wanted and not have to worry wh...”

“I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster.”

“I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy...”

“Love: Two minds without a single thought.”

“If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.”

“Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.”

“I feel like I have big thighs. My brother was always like, 'Yeah, I want big thighs! Big thighs are awesome!' And I'm like, 'Yeah, for a man!' But I've trained since I was 6 years old to pla...”

“One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against the gorgeous backdrops of that vast land...”

“Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.”

“You do Batman right, and he's going to be popular. He's a great character. I was once asked by somebody if writing 'Batman' was like holding a Ming vase or something. And I said, 'No, it's l...”

“I was pretty much into punk rock and that's all I cared about. I was into Green Day and the Ramones. I wanted to get a guitar so I could play punk songs because this kid taught me power chor...”

“A lot of comedians get a bad rep once they have kids and that's all they talk about, and people are like, 'I don't want to hear about your kids!' I'm like, 'Prepare yourselves. That's all I'...”

“I was a physics topper in my school and used to encourage my juniors.”

“I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better...”

“I think as a whole America is dealing with the issue of homophobia. We got to be really honest about whether we believe in civil rights for all people or not. As Black people we need to reme...”

“The nightlife in Baltimore is very mixed. Any gay people I know go to the hipster bars; they don't go to the gay bars. Start your night at the Club Charles, and then you can meet people to g...”

“You are the unwritten poem that I always carry folded in the pocket of my heart.”

“Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.”

“An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is likely to be stale within the month. In five years, it may have acquired the quaint aura of a...”

“Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.”

“When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.”

“I've always been a little high maintenance. I'm, like, upper-middle-class maintenance.”

“I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that we can do this that don't require massive amounts of resources.”

“Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be read...”

“Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.”

“If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.”

“I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.”

“Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.”

“Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear p...”

“I try to make the right decisions.”

“I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.”

“When you win a championship, it is a great feeling, and you really don't want that feeling to go away.”

“I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.”

“The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained...”

“I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.”

“Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it to a high state of cultivation in many places, and then completely de...”

“I have many friends and close collaborators working with Maker, which inspired my decision to join forces with the team, and couldn't be more excited to be part of the many exciting things h...”