Every accepted public quote

“I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.”

“I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero.”

“What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.”

“The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organizat...”

“To me, God comes first, my family come second. If I fail at those two, I'm just playing games.”

“To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and...”

“I find the medicine worse than the malady.”

“I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the r...”

“I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.”

“An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.”

“I'm uncomfortable, frankly, with the hype about Africa. We went from one extreme... to, like, Africa now is the best thing after sliced bread.”

“I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am the age I am and I sort of rode the crest of the first profound post-suffragette feminists, I wasn'...”

“We are all prone to be a little selfish, a little lazy.”

“I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.”

“Those irritations and uneasiness you are faced with are evidence that you have an assignment to fulfill.”

“Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most of us are loath to abandon our favorite beliefs on these issues. If you've ever let yourse...”

“If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances,...”

“Writing is such an industry now. In many ways, that's a good thing, in that it removes all the muse-like mystique and makes it a plain old job, accessible to everyone. But with industry come...”

“I like to support local record stores.”

“I think 'Never Land' is, like, my first really strong attempt to create music... that can encourage people who share my faith but also challenge and intrigue people who don't.”

“A steamer is like an inhaler, so you can inhale this oil or frankincense or eucalyptus. Before I go onstage, I spend half an hour taking in that steam, and it saves my life!”

“For a moment David was tempted to think that perhaps there were no good people at all outside concentration camps, but then he reminded himself of the sailor and Angelo and the English peopl...”

“Science fiction writers create all sorts of futures - that comes with the job. But it's not the type that matters - hopeful or dark - it's the variety we see as readers. It's nurturing the i...”

“A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It giv...”

“It's all about whatever enriches you. If you decide to go the domestic route and get married and all those things, it makes you a better actor.”

“Versace has always been a brand that I've loved, a brand that has supported me. I've been wearing Versace for so long, I come in here and I have friends here, and they really support what it...”

“There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's...”

“The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing.”

“The best gift you can give yourself is getting over the fear of embarrassment because then you're completely free to try anything.”

“Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.”

“I have a clear bias for international, global experience. On my management team, everybody has two or three countries they've lived and worked in.”

“International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: take from the rich and give to the poor.”

“When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to surv...”

“People often refer to Dubai as the Hong Kong of the Gulf, but it's really more like Vegas.”

“What writing a poem really does - and what figuring how to perform effectively really does - is forces people to listen to you. It frames your thoughts in such a way that grabs people's atte...”

“'Arab Labor' was light, snappy. We got emotional over things, but from a safe place, from the terrace.”

“I think it's also important to show that failure is a part of the process. It can sometimes be the end goal. People are very obsessed with building useful things and I think often that also...”

“In a bar, you never know what to expect. A place could be packed, but there might only be five girls there.”

“The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.”

“I have three children, each of whom is having an idyllic childhood, probably because I have been at the office the entire time.”

“Independence day is an interesting time to reflect on our strange fealty to institutions that the British left us, including those that were explicitly set up to be used against us.”

“I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I'm not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots. Choking down lightens the club's swing weight and effectively makes th...”

“The post-assassination Lincoln took on a greatly amplified importance to much of the American public, probably the president most deeply reviled in his lifetime and mostly highly regarded af...”

“It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.”

“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.”

“The U.S. government has a sacred, solemn, inviolable obligation to enforce the laws of the United States to stop illegal immigration and to secure and protect the borders.”

“When I occasionally indulge in sort of a 'look back' at highlights, it's so interesting - it almost never comes from an image on a set or even the Academy Awards. It's almost always a family...”

“I think beautiful is like looking like you take care of yourself.”