Every accepted public quote

“Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else you are lying.”

“Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow ki...”

“I'm looking forward to fighting Chisora, getting him out of the way, and then fighting Klitschko for all the belts, but I don't think Wladimir is going to take the fight.”

“To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.”

“They alone live, who live for others.”

“Music is nothing but a door opener to meet families and their children and the elderly.”

“A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.”

“I'd love to interview Mick Jagger, but that might be scary.”

“Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always take a trip to the U.S. The immigration guys kick the star out of my stardom.”

“I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.”

“If I were a Chinese dissident, I'd be grateful that Cisco had helped bring the Internet to China, but I'd also be outraged that Cisco may have helped the cops keep me under surveillance and...”

“It is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.”

“We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If...”

“I bought a Stella McCartney jacket in Salt Lake City. It's nice. It looks like a pea coat. I love Stella's stuff, so wherever I go in the world, I will always go in and buy her stuff.”

“As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.”

“Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?”

“Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person.”

“I like to carry a concealer palette that has a green, a yellow, and a tan color. I like to carry the green one because when I have a pimple, it's good to use that to contrast the red. Then y...”

“Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.”

“If you're making all your money simply betting on interest rates, that's not a business. Flow is a business. On the outside, they look the same for a while. But when you dig into them, no, t...”

“Sharks freak me out.”

“I only ever get to work with Naito once a year. I'd love to wrestle him again. Yeah, he's good, for sure. The person I've never worked before in a New Japan ring - and I'd be happy to get th...”

“All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.”

“What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.”

“The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.”

“I'm not the guy who does slo-mo, or I'm not the guy who does splashing rain or doves flying or anything; that's not me. Every film, I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it real...”

“I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.”

“Every successful career I've ever known was filled with long periods of meandering, months or even years when no one knew what would happen next. Look at me: I started as a geology major tur...”

“I always say the Premier League is the best in the world, and I still feel it is an honour to be playing here, but I think English football suits my game. Football is more physical here; the...”

“He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may.”

“Cabaret is a much more up close and personal experience, which I enjoy very much. This is a tremendous difference to being in a large theatre, doing a book show, where there is more separati...”

“The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other b...”

“I stick to a clean diet with lots of organic food and raw juices. Every now and then, I have a slice of cake or pizza, though; you have to have cheat days to keep you going.”

“I support anything that broadens the message of gender equality and tempers the stigma of the feminist label. We run into trouble, though, when we celebrate celebrity feminism while avoiding...”

“To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.”

“The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation... But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.”

“If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.”

“We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately wea...”

“Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.”

“One way of grounding the magic is by putting in lots of stuff about street lamps, carriages, and how difficult it is to get good servants.”

“Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me.”

“I always wanted to play with Kobe Bryant. I used to tease him all the time. Every time I was a free agent, I was like, 'What's up, bro? You got a chance to get the pit that you need. You fee...”

“I went through bits of the 60s and thought myself a bit of a hippy.”

“As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.”

“The code core of the 2001 browser upgrade campaign was the first instance of capability detection in place of browser detection.”

“Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism.”

“George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is...”

“I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and...”