Every accepted public quote

“I think it's an Irish thing. We don't really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.”

“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”

“...I try to incorporate life's lessons from everyone around me and pay it forward anytime I can. I look at every person I meet as a new and thrilling experience with which I'm gifted. Every...”

“No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.”

“Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.”

“In this great country, we celebrate success. We don't want to penalize those who have done well.”

“The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enj...”

“Not all brilliant people win in life and not all people who won in life are brilliant.”

“Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination.”

“Regardless of how deplorable Trump is, using violence and physical attacks against his supporters is unacceptable and grossly counterproductive.”

“I have heard of worse fates than succeeding the longest-serving manager in England.”

“Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and c...”

“Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare, and shape my grief In little words. I cannot conjure loveliness...”

“Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.”

“She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you...”

“Trade unions have stood at the front lines of struggles for democratic change and social justice throughout history. In many countries, we are the organized voice of oppositions to governmen...”

“And what happens when all the threads of the tapestry have been traveled? Do you then go over them again and again in an attempt to relive the best parts? Because nothing will be like that f...”

“I'm not taciturn and stoic.”

“When I was four or five, I had an older brother who got paralyzed from the neck down in junior high school. Some kid did a wrestling fall on him and hit his spine. We had to take care of him...”

“You don't have to be good at something to be liked.”

“When the heart is dry the eye is dry.”

“If we want to improve American food and make it much cheaper, we should deregulate the food trucks and the other street vendors, provided they meet certain sanitation standards. Many cities...”

“There is only one religion - it is a way a man dies.”

“Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.”

“I was part of a growing community of women who were secretly dealing with harassment by Harvey Weinstein. But I also did not know that there was a world in which anybody would care about my...”

“In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.”

“'Frankenstein' did not invent the fear of science; the novel found its audience because it dramatized anxieties that already existed. Although popular entertainment can, over the long run, s...”

“For over a century and a half, anarchists have been arguing that coercive, hierarchical organization (as embodied in government and corporations) is not equivalent to organization per se (wh...”

“I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.”

“The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from...”

“Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.”

“The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.”

“God has use for all the old people.”

“People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.”

“The major cost in life is the time wasted that can't possibly ever be replaced.”

“There's nothing greener than Washington state. They have the most beautiful vegetation on the planet. And the water is so clean.”

“Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.”

“I am a fast dresser, 30 minutes max with hair and makeup. I don't have a uniform, but I like to be comfortable.”

“Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.”

“The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.”

“When the origin of remote peoples goes beyond history, our languages show themselves their oldest monuments”

“The sense of a spiritual dimension in life is absolutely important, and the religious communities are also important. The question of believing in a set of creedal statements is a lot less i...”

“The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.”

“I like listening to my playlist on the iPod. I don't want radio with commercials.”

“So far as I'm concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.”

“You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.”

“Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.”

“The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even thre...”