Every accepted public quote

“I had a very hard life in Kazakhstan.”

“In the many ways that I could lose myself, I chose to lose myself in you.”

“Artists have so much more control of their futures - they don't need to rely so much on major labels or big companies to help them. You have artists like Skrillex that can dominate so much t...”

“Sometimes, early in their careers, chefs make the mistake of adding one too many things to a plate to get attention. If a chef is just coming up with wiz-bang gimmicks on their plate, that h...”

“When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we...”

“The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.”

“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”

“You want your fans to like what you do, because it's coming from your heart and soul. You write it, you produce this thing. It's like your baby.”

“What you think I think of you is what you think of yourself”

“When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney, then went to Melbourne and up the East Coast, which was an incred...”

“Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.”

“A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.”

“I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. And a guy - gunman - kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. We escape...”

“Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.”

“Films are a very personal experience - just like a martini - so I try to think about what I like, what projects I like to be in, and make sure I feel proud about it because, at the end, I'm...”

“In the 1980s, I had a lot of films, documentaries for television, which were about why the trade unions had failed to organize resistance to Margaret Thatcher's plans. And they were banned....”

“Trump promised an 'America First' foreign policy rooted in the national interest, not in nostalgia.”

“'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.”

“I am so, so lucky. I am the luckiest girl in the world, really. And still with access to everything I could possibly want I still say 'Oh dear, what am I going to wear today?' There's no end...”

“We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.”

“The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.”

“I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.”

“I've been mayor of the city of Jerusalem, which is perhaps, in some ways, more complex and more difficult than a ministerial position.”

“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.”

“I don't sleep as much as normal people do.”

“When Shane McMahon competes, you know he's going to jump off something high!”

“I'm always teasing and clowning around and laughing and in the locker room I tend to always have something to say.”

“I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.”

“Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief...”

“I used to play with model trains when I was a kid, and then I used to study history.”

“I'm very outgoing and social.”

“At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.”

“We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.”

“There's so many cool things that happen, where you want to kind of sit back and smell the roses and say, 'Wow, this is awesome!' But then you're already thinking a mile ahead about what the...”

“When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was the Clinton/Rabin and Bush/Sharon combinati...”

“One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites.”

“In the past, I have played the roles of subdued, self-sacrificing women. But we need to show our women as bolder individuals. I know this will happen.”

“Often the process of writing can feel like spitting into the ocean.”

“'The Chairs are Where the People Go' was told to me by my friend Misha Glouberman; I typed as he talked. In 'How Should a Person Be?' the transcribed dialogues between me and my friends help...”

“Sometimes, things need to be so understated on film that I don't even see them as funny, which isn't my favorite style, comedically. When I watch film comedy, I like people that are a little...”

“We don't need a specialized gang unit. We need patrol officers who specialize in knowing their community.”

“People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.”

“The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At l...”

“America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated wit...”

“There's this American dream to put enough away that you can golf and build a birdhouse or just be in a Barcalounger watching football all day. I'll never be that guy. And I'm not really sure...”

“Iran's most formidable modern leader, Reza Shah Pahlavi, was obsessed with the idea of building a steel mill, but in 1941, soon after he assembled all the components, Allied armies invaded I...”

“Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp...”

“To make a long story short, . . . there's nothing like having the boss walk in.”