Every accepted public quote

“Ignorance leads to leaving in self-deception.”

“Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.”

“You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.”

“Being humble got me very far when I went to L.A., because it was in stark contrast to this town of people who were so cutthroat.”

“What is it we want out of travel? Is it to take snapshots of ourselves in front of famous monuments, surrounded by other tourists? To eat unfamiliar food chosen from unintelligible menus? To...”

“I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'”

“My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space.”

“I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.”

“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

“For queer people, the personal is very political, just to talk about it in a public space. It's very political just to come out and take up that space and be like, 'This is my narrative. It'...”

“After being raised as an evangelical Christian, I for years assumed that Christianity was the default - there were Christians, and then there were weirdos. I was shocked when, in college, I...”

“I love Madonna! If you want to see the Madonna I know, just go on YouTube and you'll see those early interviews before the record came out. She was giddy and wonderful and giggly and happy a...”

“I'm not really into the numbers game of, like, what position our record is. But you find out at the end, you know? You're like 'Oh, all right! That's good!' We had a Number Three record. Tha...”

“Christmas is filled with joy and laughter, but love is the foundation that inspires it all.”

“I oppose Obamacare and believe it has failed. It drove up premiums, took insurance away from people who were promised otherwise, and usurped state programs.”

“We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”

“Normally I will have five or six cups of tea a day, and if I can have them poured from a teapot, then all the better. I think tea tastes so much nicer from a pot.”

“I believe very deeply in the proposition that what we did in Iraq was the right thing to do. It was hard to do. It took a long time. There were significant costs involved.”

“Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.”

“If Edwards gained 60 pounds and lost all his hair, he'd look like Dick Cheney!”

“My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really...”

“For me, getting on a knee and praying is a very special deal for me. A very special moment. For me, it was honoring that and not letting people go out there and make a mockery of it and do a...”

“If you start thinking of stress as not a bad thing but inevitable, resulting in change that itself leads to transformation that leads to sharp and radical changes... it can be a very useful...”

“Being yourself, or being judged as yourself, is really scary.”

“So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we're vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn't fully understand.”

“I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.' I decided I would do all the things they did on that show.”

“I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.”

“There never was any separate and supernatural trinity - it has always been the human mind playing the triangle.”

“I'm a born-again Christian - if everybody can agree what that means. I believe in Jesus. I believe that He died for my sins.”

“It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipula...”

“I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pu...”

“I think BBC3 gave me my first commissions because I wasn't a middle-class, highbrow journalist. I was able to speak to the contributors on a level that perhaps some journalists don't.”

“Non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia can only celebrate Valentine's Day behind closed doors. Apparently, this has led to a huge black market for flowers and wrapping paper.”

“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”

“By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an Am...”

“The main thing Twitter needs to focus on are implementing its rules more uniformly. If outing a transgender woman is against Twitter's rules, that needs to be implemented every time.”

“The fact that I have done films down South didn't boost or hamper my chances here. In fact, I was still shooting for both my Telugu films when I met Ashu sir for 'Mohenjo Daro.' During the a...”

“My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.”

“The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.”

“I'm involved in all things musical. It's all consuming, even if it doesn't necessarily manifest as a record or a concert.”

“When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.”

“Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!”

“If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.”

“I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.”

“The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputat...”

“Ruins are more beautiful than adorned castles, for ruins are the cathedrals of time.”

“I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed.”

“Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill.”