Every accepted public quote

“There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.”

“We have been roommates our entire lives. We just bought a place together.”

“I don't eat fish and chicken and all that. But I will have some eggs. So I'm not technically a vegan. But I eat pretty sensibly, and before a tour, I will usually work out a lot. I'll get a...”

“Where two or more are gathered with one common goal of love, there is the Presence of God.”

“I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a s...”

“I was sexually harassed while building Rent the Runway - propositioned, sent sexual text messages, harassed and threatened in person.”

“There's been a streak of vengeance and carnage in all of Dylan's records except for the Christmas record, since 2001, since 'Love and Theft.' Particularly on 'Modern Times' in 2006.”

“I find weddings too procedural sometimes. I just want a big, fun party.”

“The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation th...”

“I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.”

“Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the as...”

“Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.”

“If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.”

“I really don't have any weaknesses. I do have areas of my life that I am working on to grow, heal and evolve. Giving myself permission to rest is an area I am working on. Not rescuing my chi...”

“Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to...”

“Abu Mazen is not a member of the Zionist movement. He is a Palestinian.”

“Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The bi...”

“The problem about cutting out the best of your heart and giving it to people, is that 1. It hurts to do that; and 2. You never know if they are going to throw it away or not. But then you sh...”

“I just have to do what I have to do, and just let my hands go and focus.”

“Whenever I hear the narration for a new film, I have this process back home where my mother reads all my scripts.”

“If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.”

“I love Sarah Jessica Parker; I've worked with her. I think she's amazing... She's a great producer and has a great business acumen.”

“You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.”

“I like to put coconut oil in my hair if it's looking dry. It's so unruly. It has a mind of its own.”

“Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipote...”

“We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”

“People are mobile. They move around, and anytime they want to communicate, if you tie them to the wall or the wires, you're restricting them, you're infringing on their freedom.”

“We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.”

“Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.”

“Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.”

“I still have a lot to learn. I'm concentrating on learning a lot more about music.”

“And Seinfeld is so quick: we crank out one show a week, and the hours are very reasonable.”

“All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.”

“Evolve, untill gods look puny to you.”

“With foxes we must play the fox.”

“She's going to do what her donors want. That's who Nancy Pelosi is. Not remotely progressive.”

“Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.”

“People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, a...”

“Thanks to my mother's sacrifices, I was able to attend one of the best schools in Chicago.”

“My dad was very into cycling and had lots of magazines around the house. So I knew about the best cyclists of that era: Arnaud Tournant, Laurent Gane. I watched a lot of the Tour de France a...”

“It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.”

“Our best days are in front of us. We can reform those entitlements, we can change that corporate tax code and lower it. We can put America back on track on a growth level and a growth rate t...”

“If you look at the coverage of female sports and athletics across any of the broadcasters that participate in league rights and/or sports programming, women are underrepresented, and it's a...”

“I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.”

“A good love story always keeps the pot boiling.”

“Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.”

“It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.”

“The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.”