Every accepted public quote

“I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't...”

“The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?”

“I have fans from every level of the fitness world, whether it's the elite competitor or just someone living a healthy lifestyle, and it's been my goal since day one to make sure that my bran...”

“I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.”

“Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.”

“For people who grew up in the last four decades of the 20th century, it is hard to grasp the concept of negative interest rates. How is it even possible? If interest rates are the price of m...”

“Nobody can do you better than you do you.”

“If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, h...”

“The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.”

“I'm the poorest famous person in the country.”

“I wanted to play drums and if I didn't play drums, I wouldn't make music and drums are the foundation for what I do.”

“The 2013 Boston Marathon was, for me, a milestone. A bucket list event that was supposed to be my last marathon until my next big milestone, turning 50. But I couldn't leave marathoning on a...”

“Why do I find the fantasy - husband, family, kids - exhausting instead of alluring? Is there something wrong with me? Do I have a life?”

“I really work. I like feeling that I've nailed it, and we've got the picture.”

“In the United States, it is unmistakable that young people have broken away from the political right and have gravitated to more leftist-populist figures like Bernie Sanders.”

“The finger lick is just a really bad habit - I do it all the time. My wife Ashley is going to kill me if I do it at dinner one more time. I look like an animal about to dig in.”

“Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.”

“I'd love to tell you that everyone who voted Brexit felt like me about the country, about the Union Jack and the cricket team. But I don't think that there's as much romanticism in it, perha...”

“All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.”

“The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...”

“Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.”

“It's only over time that you get to exploring or adding nuances to the character. Like my part in 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' - I am so not the person who wears high heels and totters about l...”

“We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a number of things together.”

“No self-respecting country - especially one with our clout and proud history - should sign up to a proposal that surrenders the power to veto our foreign and trade policy to another entity.”

“I tend to be a fairly spirited person, but I've never hated anyone more than I hated Christian Longo after his trial, when I realized his guilt and that I had been partially duped.”

“If it wasn't because of my high heels, I would still be in Coatzacoalcos with 10 children.”

“The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.”

“Music is music - it makes no difference what it is. I can like Slipknot and Public Enemy equally.”

“Hawaii and Fiji are two of the best island groups in the world to visit as a vacationer. The great hotels, the fascinating local people, the exciting history of the two contrasting island gr...”

“Typically, when you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By and large, with oral language - when you watch a film or list...”

“It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.”

“All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.”

“There are two worlds here in the U.S., especially here in Los Angeles. All the Latinos have watched my shows for 30 years, but Americans haven't seen them. So I am living in this world where...”

“The days, months, and years eventually reveal, like a Polaroid, a clear picture of how significant events and decisions ultimately shape our lives.”

“I say the stupidest stuff, all the time, off of Twitter, and so I think Twitter is good way for people to get to know the stupid side of me.”

“No nation can have the policy that whole classes of people are immune from immigration law or enforcement. It was a simple decision by the administration to have a zero tolerance policy for...”

“She told the truth as she saw it, and she died for it. I came along for the ride, and I lived. It wasn't worth it. But it was the truth, and it was what had to happen.”

“If I find a comedy club where no one's camera works, I'll go.”

“I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, a...”

“In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don'...”

“I found my own voice slowly. I don't do big tricks like Mariah Carey, so I've found this weird way of singing that works for me.”

“The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.”

“Be a person that others will look for your posts daily because they know you will encourage them. Be the positive one and help others to have a great day and you will find that not only they...”

“Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.”

“Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.”

“Never regret not being able to realize certain things in your life. You are who you are now, partly because of these things, and if you are satisfied with your existence now, there is no nee...”

“Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of...”

“Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sharp definition for me, the rose petals a little fuzzier.”