Every accepted public quote

“They have hijacked my religion.”

“I was lucky enough to have a mother who took me to the library - the public library - twice a week, Wednesdays and Saturdays. And also bought me books. And also read aloud to me.”

“The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.”

“Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.”

“Every time I watch a performance, I'm disgusted with how I've skated. It's very hurtful for me.”

“Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.”

“She was addicted to literature like some people were addicted to heroin.”

“I feel it is important not to get overly obsessed and overly carried away with just the physical aspect. There is more to beauty than just the physical appearance. You are also a complete pe...”

“That I shall love always, I argue thee that love is life, and life hath immortality”

“Everyone has their own traits but if you are being compared to players like Rio Ferdinand then you must be doing something well and hopefully I can keep that going.”

“I had to learn a lot about myself during the situation with my brain tumor.”

“Going from having an Atari to a laptop changed everything. It allows me to work anywhere I want and send my work home - I can work anywhere in the world.”

“It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what...”

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”

“Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.”

“I feel like I live a pretty quiet life. I like to focus on work and friends, and I love being in nature.”

“I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village.”

“This celebrity culture that hypnotizes people into thinking a person is literally not real because you see them on television is a spell the watcher him- or herself must break.”

“I have always been a business person.”

“He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't...”

“A Texas girl who grew up in terrible poverty, I ended up leading a pretty glamorous life.”

“I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult...”

“The odd thing is how, I think, the intensity and devotion to my craft and the intensity of certain performances or types of roles I've played overshadow the comedic stints that I've had. 'Da...”

“I was in high school when Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath about his relationship with Lewinsky. We didn't have social media back then - hell, we didn't have a computer with t...”

“Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.”

“In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.”

“Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.”

“Now, as a writer, the whole world is your nail polish display, and what's more, you can help yourself. A thrilling, colourful array of gorgeous human peculiarity revolves before your eyes, a...”

“By the very nature of his art, which depends on invention and innovation, a story teller must depart from the beaten track and, having done so, occasionally startle and disagree with some of...”

“When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.”

“See it, feel it, trust it!”

“America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.”

“I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.”

“In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.”

“I've always wanted, notionally, to be a mother. And I was certain I would be, because everyone I know, gay or straight, married or single, rich or not so much, who truly wants to have a chil...”

“There's so much difference having arm ability. You have to be able to throw it hard. You have to be able to throw it with touch. You have to be able to do everything in this league, and I tr...”

“But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish i...”

“Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.”

“People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.”

“Liability is being assessed against companies who inadvertently have shipped a virus to another company. Rather than risk the incredibly bad PR, these companies fork over.”

“The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.”

“Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls rea...”

“Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most.”

“When I first heard that a comet was going to hit Jupiter, my reaction was, 'Eh. So what? Jupiter's huge. Comets are small. And so when I saw the first impact site and it was huge and dark, I...”

“As the U.S. prison population has surged over the decades, the legal profession's distaste for former inmates has become more conspicuous. And it isn't only law. Medical schools often have c...”

“Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”

“The faith-based thing is really important for me. There are certain situations that I would not have been able to make through without the promises He makes and gave for us.”

“I'm in Delta Delta Delta, otherwise known as Tri-Delta. I've developed some great friendships, and it's enabled me to have a little bit more of a normal college experience.”