Every accepted public quote

“Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.”

“I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about.”

“The best piece of advice I ever got from anyone was when Spike Jonze said, 'Take money out of the equation.' And that's actually when Vice started making lots of money. That's when I stopped...”

“Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to.”

“When you give as a family, not only are you sharing the happiness that giving brings you by watching it translate into positive change, but you are also transmitting your giving values to yo...”

“These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.”

“I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.”

“I love radio and have done a little bit for years - since 'Workers' Playtime' in the 1950s. It's also a good springboard for comedians.”

“People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without...”

“When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's artistic practice is different. But I collaborate and sometimes...”

“I am not, at heart, a playwright.”

“For our generation walks as in Hades, without the divine.”

“A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.”

“President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because...”

“I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been...”

“Honestly, the Carolina games I played in every year were more intense than the national championship games I played in - they had a better environment.”

“The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.”

“America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and politica...”

“Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.”

“The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.”

“William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.”

“I don't take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.”

“There is definitely a lot of banks that are interested in private blockchains. In some cases, they are happy with public blockchains as well. The opposition to just doing things on a public...”

“Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness, for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.”

“There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.”

“Do not get discouraged in the darkest time.”

“Very little useful science got done in the space station. NASA never did the experiments needed to develop the technologies required for a genuine interplanetary expedition: centrifugal grav...”

“But we have seen how brightly light shines in the dark, how sweetly music fills the quiet. All these years you have known only shadow and silence, and we have so much to show you. To save yo...”

“In New York, they kind of rode with me from day one: they understand who I am.”

“When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.”

“I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never...”

“We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be t...”

“It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ's sufferings.”

“I went to Naples to work with one of the best pizza-makers in the world, and guess how long he bakes his pizzas for? He bakes them for 45 seconds. In and out. And they're incredible. Any mor...”

“That's one of the main things I've learned: honesty is paramount. The biggest thing I try and instil in my daughter. My deepest regrets have been to do with times that I've been dishonest. T...”

“My dad wasn't a gangster, and he wasn't a criminal, but he sure liked to rub padded shoulders with them.”

“Everyone watches everyone pitch. If they're doing good, you're trying to take something out of them. I've taken something from probably every average to above-average pitcher I've ever playe...”

“Well, I am a giant pansy and freak out if seaweed touches my leg in the ocean.”

“I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being.”

“'My Night at Maud's,' 'Claire's Knee,' 'Chloe in the Afternoon' are grafted onto my life.”

“On all the peaks lies peace.”

“Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.”

“That boy-next-door, love interest crush has been my niche since 'Austin & Ally.'”

“The Bible makes it clear that Adam's sin affected the whole universe. This means that any aliens would also be affected by Adam's sin, but because they are not Adam's descendants, they can't...”

“Listen, I believe I should be winning Sport Personality of the Year because if it's about sporting achievements and it's about personality, then I'm a winner hands down.”

“I was brought up playing games and still do ferociously. I once played Connect Four on set with Bill Nighy and Richard E. Grant for so long that the assistant director got cross.”

“When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.”

“Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.”