Every accepted public quote

“As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative?”

“I get up when I feel like getting up. That's the deal I've made with myself: I can stay in bed as long as my dog's bladder holds. The other half of that deal is that once the dog is walked,...”

“I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes...”

“I had Macs when Blizzard was pretty much the only company making games for Macs. I played all the Blizzard games, like 'Diablo II.'”

“Sometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to ot...”

“We just stuck to what we did best. Maybe that's why people plug into us and go 'They never change.' We're reliable. A bit like old shoes.”

“I developed an interesting skill set in that I was able to create a network and create experiences and environment - I built this decadent playground for men. It might have been successful,...”

“As a society, we're failing. In so many ways. Such high incarceration rates of underrepresented minorities ultimately means we're missing out on great potential from black and Latino communi...”

“I share the skepticism that my friends have about NAFTA. It was woefully weak in protecting workers and on the enforcement side. The question is can we meaningfully build a trade regime that...”

“Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.”

“Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.”

“Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.”

“Leaving your religion and having to invent your own system of values is a big deal, after all.”

“I tell the story by feel most of the time, and I am not much given to labyrinthian digressions but seem to be naturally drawn to compression and pace, and the feelings come about on their ow...”

“One cannot understand how racism functions in the U.S. today if one ignores group power relations.”

“I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them.”

“What people don't always understand is that I established a certain lifestyle for my family back in the days of 'Species' and 'Mulholland Falls' and 'The Getaway.' I wasn't about to move my...”

“Since the start of the Thatcher economic and fiscal reforms the U.K. economy has expanded five-fold.”

“In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the rea...”

“Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as...”

“In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.”

“Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to the judges they appear before. That is terrible for justice, since the courts are teeming with...”

“Why not aspire to build a real Jurassic Park?”

“I have always had an entrepreneurial spirit. When I was seven, I remember sticking a sign on my bedroom window that read, 'Manicures and massage, come on in.' My mother rushed in, saying, 'A...”

“So I would always try and be the lightest I could. In high school, I really wouldn't eat. I would only have lunch and I would only have salads. And then it got so crazy as to just eating lik...”

“I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There m...”

“Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is...”

“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.”

“It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.”

“Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.”

“My end goal is not to break the record for cashing in the most. I want to be treated fair and what I feel is fair, but that's not my sole purpose; that's not my purpose.”

“You know you're in for a tough time if you're trailing and the other teams are doing well.”

“Timing is everything.”

“If you think I've got a lot of sponsors, you should see the stuff I turn down.”

“Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the w...”

“I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.”

“But I want to see Clara, Charlie's friend, who's right up my street. I want to see her because I don't know where my street is; I don't even know which part of town it's in, which city, whic...”

“The Aadhar data that was leaked to American companies was, in a way, a betrayal to the country.”

“I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac.”

“I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.”

“You cannot convince a Buddhist to become a Protestant any more than you can convince a person who embraces realism as the highest form of art that fantasy is an equally important manifestati...”

“True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.”

“Any Congressional agreement of an arbitrary time table to bring our troops home before we have accomplished our mission is unacceptable and could potentially increase the risk to our soldier...”

“I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wi...”

“I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.”

“Nothing in this world lasts. So what are we looking for outside of ourselves That can keep us happy forever. There is nothing there. Its all passing. Moment by moment. If there is absolutely...”

“My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.”

“The gift of giving and paying it forward has always been traits I consider to be invaluable.”