Every accepted public quote

“I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.”

“I remember being one of those women who never imagined I would get married and have children. You ask any of my high school friends, and I would have been voted in the class to be the least...”

“Eminem is a master.”

“The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes.”

“The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.”

“We want to defend the rights of Malaysians. We don't want to sell chunks of this country to foreign companies who will develop whole towns.”

“If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's someth...”

“I'm from a really nice town. Full of nature, mountains, clean air, rock climbing. But I'd prefer New York City. I love the diversity here, the religions, the food - especially the food.”

“Fitness is amplified in one-day cricket - fielding, running ones, twos, threes. Sometimes in an over you are running six twos. If you are not fit enough, you can't run those runs.”

“You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.”

“I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends wi...”

“I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV ser...”

“I feel there's an existential angst among young people. I didn't have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.”

“I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.”

“People always related to President Bush, but in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War, his numbers collapsed because people didn't feel like he handled those properly. Obama is...”

“They were of many types of seals, all bearing the insignia of the King.”

“all brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for.”

“We were all deeply more ourselves than we had been before.”

“You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.”

“I am a very big proponent of opening the borders with India. Most of our trade is done through unofficial channels. Why not open the trade?”

“It is better to be honourable than be honoured.”

“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.”

“I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.”

“I founded Stitch Fix to take on a very human problem: How do I find clothes I love? Like most people, I want to look stylish and feel my best. Spending a day at the mall or devoting hours of...”

“We certainly love the Muslim people. But that is not the faith of this country. And that is not the religion that built this nation. The people of the Christian faith and the Jewish faith ar...”

“You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.”

“Wine making is an artistic creation in which you deal with a variety of styles, colors, and inspiration therefore good wine, like good art, can evoke emotions, sensations and create an exper...”

“One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a...”

“Life is real, and you canot live a lie.”

“He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family.”

“Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.”

“We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter, but work is third.”

“But the threat of a pandemic is different from that of a nerve agent, in that a disease can spread uncontrollably, long after the first carrier has succumbed.”

“In the very act of writing I felt pleased with what I did. There was the pleasure of having words come to me, and the pleasure of ordering them, re-ordering them, weighing one against anothe...”

“I don't want to go out there and jeopardize myself getting hurt in camp.”

“Exxon fought claims resulting from the Exxon Valdez spill in court for 20 years. Alabama could have suffered the same fate. What would be the benefit to the state or its coastal counties in...”

“I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feel...”

“I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself bef...”

“One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying...”

“There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that one of the most important questions to ask yourself when you begin writi...”

“As beavers build dams and bees build hives, human beings have spears. Or take the high intelligence of human beings, the ability to make plans, to transmit information - that was also there...”

“I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.”

“Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.”

“Men in makeup, obviously, is a very new concept. It has not been widely accepted in the past.”

“Astronism is a champion of freethought.”

“Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.”

“I believe that eventually, one of the next big issues that will have to be addressed globally is the role of state-owned enterprises. Because there is a disadvantage that's built in.”

“India is a great talent pool of actors. I see Freida Pinto making it big in Hollywood, and I am sure many others can also make it.”