Every accepted public quote

“American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.”

“Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.”

“I've worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. I've also done a lot of work for Broadway Care/Equity Fights AIDS. I think it's...”

“As a generalization, fantasy writing has leaned more on political storytelling the more it's tried to escape the inevitable influence of Middle-earth, and revise the Eurocentric and Christia...”

“I applaud women, and I did my best and took my time after having a kid - in a healthy way, get back to a place where I felt good in my body.”

“Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.”

“I don't think that a Singularity would be visible to those going through one. Even the most disruptive changes are not universally or immediately distributed, and late followers learn from t...”

“The one thing we need to do to continue to maintain Test cricket as being special is cutting down the amount and make it a real occasion rather than playing one after another.”

“I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.”

“George Foreman acts more like my grandfather. He and my grandfather act just alike - they're both Christian type guys. They try to help everyone.”

“I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.”

“I signed with Kanye back in 2003, and at that time, 'The College Dropout' hadn't even come out, so he was still relatively unknown compared to where he is now. He wasn't a household name; pe...”

“My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.”

“You are given life to find yourself.”

“If there was a horror movie showing somewhere in Liverpool between 1967 and 1975, I saw it.”

“Wherever there is injustice, there is anger, and anger is like gasoline - if you spray it around and somebody lights a matchstick, you have an inferno. But anger inside an engine is powerful...”

“Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fa...”

“I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen”

“I think of film when I paint. Even the luminosity that I always keep working for is really about film. But my idea is not to paint paintings that will decorate somebody's house.”

“Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.”

“Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.”

“I am a Justin Timberlake fan.”

“I may have gotten my first job from 'Backstage.' I remember going to the Equity offices, and I signed up for an audition. I left. I was grabbing a coffee somewhere and looking at 'Backstage'...”

“No one ever had a better father than I did. Father was a disciplinarian, and Mother was a very loving woman who taught us out of the scriptures. The Book of Mormon was her favorite.”

“I'm enjoying life at my fullest. Sometimes you realize that money isn't everything.”

“A kiss may ruin a human life”

“I remember failing my Princeton interview. My mom wanted me to apply because ever since I was a kid she had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, but it was just not happening.”

“Sometimes science was the closest thing to the sword of an avenging angel humanity was ever going to get.”

“For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.”

“If the Regime had a factory producing Hope, the Resistance had a factory producing the tools of despair.”

“When I was 15, if Stephen Fry had advised me to trim my eyebrows with a Flymo, I would have given it serious consideration.”

“The professors at Harvard are smarter and more world-renowned, and so your child will learn from a pre-eminent scholar who is a leader in his or her field. Some of Harvard's professors are e...”

“The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.”

“During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?' And it pushes you a...”

“It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture,...”

“The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.”

“I am just a normal human being - I am alive! Why is anyone surprised that I am human? Like many New Yorkers, I have a multifaceted life.”

“There's no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television's much better than movies.”

“Madonna did amazing songs. She had an amazing sense of style, without a stylist. And she was flawed, and sometimes she admitted it. I'll fight the fight for Madonna. I think she should send...”

“You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it.”

“It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations,...”

“Leading your family is a lot tougher than basketball.”

“Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape...”

“To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old...”

“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.”

“Aku percaya, tak pernah ada kata salah untuk cinta.”

“The greatest proposal of all times is the one that was demonstrated by Jesus Christ. He first loved us while we were still sinners, enjoying the pleasures of sin. He chose us before we had t...”

“You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.”