Every accepted public quote

“Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.”

“I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.”

“My fellow band members don't discuss their loved ones, and I don't feel that just because I am gay, I should have to discuss mine!”

“The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.”

“Black people created punk - the band Death was way before The Ramones. Same with Bad Brains. If you think about it, the wool has been pulled over our eyes.”

“Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.”

“Till tomorrow good sir one must but gaze at stars”

“I only knew one thing about policemen: they were inhuman beasts. The problem was how to turn them into likable, sympathetic human beings. The answer was simple. Give them head colds. And fir...”

“The commendable conduct of man is shown by his discriminate treatment of merits and sympathetic regard for pleasure and pain, profit and loss of others. The contrary course is reprehensible.”

“Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.”

“I've seen John Wayne's 'True Grit' about 10 times.”

“If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.”

“Cauliflower is a great swap in so many comfort food dishes.”

“I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.”

“Sometimes it feels as if the artist hasn't done the real work of engaging with the material. Film noir can't just play off looks and attitudes. A thriller needs a dose of genuine suspense. I...”

“When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made the packaging and did the distribution, all myself. Now I understand what everyone's jobs ar...”

“Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I...”

“Every leaving of a Jewish community is a most difficult thing.”

“I'm not a vindictive person. But I do want to shine a light on human frailty and heroism in equal measure.”

“Across the country, people are willing to tighten their belts and sacrifice. The president should ask the oil industry to do the same.”

“There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well, you know, I kinda get her now.' I've actually had people say that to me.”

“In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.”

“How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destro...”

“If the ship is sinking, you need help getting off that ship.”

“I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is...”

“I'd love to go to Indonesia, Bali, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Cambodia.”

“...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.”

“I love 'Yo Gabba Gabba!' because it's a real kids' show. There hasn't been a real kids' show since 'Dora the Explorer.' It mixes hip-hop with being a kid. Hip-hop came from youths anyway. It...”

“To be a great warrior is not enough. Flesh and blood, however skilled, can be destroyed... you must be more than just a man in minds of your opponents.”

“I have so much residue crap in my hair from years and years of not washing it and not having any sense of personal hygiene whatsoever. Even today, I go into these things where I'm supposed t...”

“My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.”

“Rock n' roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.”

“Obama remains frozen in his father's time machine. His anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of Africa in the 1950s: state confiscation of land, confiscatory taxation, and so on. My anti-...”

“I'm lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoo...”

“If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.”

“Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.”

“I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.”

“A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in plastic so her daughter could cut her teeth...”

“Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.”

“One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a...”

“We have continued to advance our global ambition with acquisitions that fill in the global footprint, such as Dabo in Dubai on the marketing side, Smithfield in the U.K. for financial PR, Er...”

“Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.”

“Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.”

“It is admitted on all sides that we must equalize the revenue and expenditures. The scheme of borrowing to make up an increasing deficit must, in the end, if continued, prove ruinous.”

“I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got bored.”

“I do think being a prissy tomboy helps me in raising a son in general. I wrestle with him, play ball, play in the sandbox with him. As a mom, you get bruises, scrapes on your knee.”

“The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.”

“I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.”