Every accepted public quote

“It's nice if people can finally loosen up a little bit and just go out laugh at silliness. I mean, people take themselves way too seriously sometimes.”

“The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.”

“I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff.”

“The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.”

“The free-from aisle is the most depressing place in the supermarket.”

“In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.”

“Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.”

“Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.”

“I don't think there could've been a pitch as crass as Trump's 'I can fix America because I'm rich' without that groundwork laid by Davos and the Clinton Global Initiative.”

“There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.”

“My associate director, Lisa Leguillou, is remarkable: flying around, visiting all the companies. She is truly the unsung hero of 'Wicked'. She has been by my side from day one, and she is in...”

“I think of you and think of love; when all I knew to do was run; though this is now and that was then; I know I'd do it all again”

“If a man tells you that he is fond of the Imitation, view him with sudden suspicion; he is either a dabbler or a Saint.”

“The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government has no incentive to end child abuse; because the...”

“Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?”

“You'll never see the president carry his own luggage, and why? Because even though we know he has luggage, it would reduce his stature if he was too much like us. We need to think of our lea...”

“Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance”

“For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is just that, a sensation, and different for everyone. Instead of one m...”

“What I write comes from a place of deep love, and a deep understanding of all kinds of otherness.”

“Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song.”

“But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of thei...”

“Guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that's exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fa...”

“The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence a...”

“Ronald Reagan became, you know, not only a Republican but a pretty conservative Republican - not the most. But a pretty conservative Republican. And he's somebody that I actually knew and li...”

“What are you planting today to harvest tomorrow?”

“The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.”

“'I Told You' is for all the people who've been doubted, the underdogs.”

“There is no such thing as a free lunch.”

“The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.”

“People credit me for making the universe interesting when in fact the universe is inherently interesting, and I'm merely revealing that fact. I don't think I'm anything special for this to h...”

“We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?”

“I think snowboarders have a unique experience when it comes to the Olympics because we have a pretty frequent competition circuit in addition to the games. So it's not a sport where your big...”

“St. Louis is closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee is.”

“When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself...”

“There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.”

“Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.”

“Once you have a computer that can do a few things - strictly speaking, one that has a certain 'sufficient set' of basic procedures - it can do basically anything any other computer can do. T...”

“The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.”

“I don't count that relationship with Ricky. It's just like a blip at this point. I had to fall in love with the devil himself to get this sweet angel, Jack.”

“When my wife and I met, I couldn't talk to her - and my defense mechanism is sarcasm. I belittle someone with verbal pokes and prods. I did it to her out of complete awe. When friends introd...”

“I don't see how we can have both the freedoms we had before and the safety net that we all need considering the way the world is today. And that's just because human beings can't trust each...”

“A good bassist determines the direction of any band.”

“If you run a business, if you are responsible for a lot of people, you come to grips with the reality that you have to have discipline. You have to protect the enterprise in order to take ca...”

“Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.”

“I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.”

“I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it.”

“It's a long road, so we are just trying to stay focused and grounded and keep moving forward. I'll take it, though.”

“To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world. Black people. And I mean that in every sense.”