Every accepted public quote

“The next time you're tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead.”

“Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going without me.”

“I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.”

“He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.”

“Incentive prizes work.”

“From John Kennedy to Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, presidents have rhetorically opened the door to the frontier for us, and each time, we have turned away to fight over destinations, tec...”

“Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. Well, of course not Adam and Steve. Never Adam and Steve. It's Adam and Steven.”

“This high-end, novelistic form of TV, you know, is just peppered with despicable people who do marvelous things and marvelous people who do despicable things.”

“I love 'Top Chef.'”

“I think Japanese audiences are much more attentive than a London audience.”

“A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.”

“We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may...”

“Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.”

“It's totally irrational, patently insane to condemn an entire race - to despise an entire nation - to vilify an entire religion.”

“We can bet on one thing in our flight, and that's that the Regime will be looking for us. Their maw is likely here in the west, where they know we're strongest. If you linger near the mouth...”

“The bad guys have way more fun, in my opinion. 'Bad guys' in quotes.”

“I did not start out thinking I'm going to become a feminist poet. It was a tag I was given.”

“The argument for '12 Years a Slave' was that - yes, it's a beautiful film. Beautifully shot, beautifully acted. It's a real story, and these stories should be told. The problem is, if they'r...”

“If someday you should ever think of me and miss me, know in your heart that I'd want you to find me once again. No matter how distant in time or space... FIND ME.”

“Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.”

“I feel like I've been known for having long black hair, so when I took all my extensions out and cut my own hair, it was the most freeing thing, I think, I've ever done. That was my 21st yea...”

“In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.”

“Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep...”

“My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.”

“Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper be...”

“It's good that fat schoolchildren are no longer bullied, but it's worrying if they feel it's OK to be large because no one is pointing it out.”

“Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.”

“I don't like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, a...”

“Yeah, I had a talk show canceled. Okay, let's go back to the list of people who had talk shows canceled. Johnny Carson had his first talk show canceled. Jon Stewart. Letterman. Conan O'Brien...”

“I meet with retired football players. Some are well-dressed, some are well-spoken, but when you talk to them personally, they will admit to you that they are having problems. But they are ma...”

“My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music, fashion, and art. She was also a young single mom, so I think she had really good style;...”

“It's strange because we think of the upper middle class, for example, as being secular, that they've fallen away from religion. Well, it turns out that the upper middle class goes to church...”

“The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.”

“I don't care if it's rap, metal, whatever. You still should play Beatles records mixed with Limp Bizkit mixed with Foghat mixed with Creedence Clearwater Revival, stuff like that.”

“People were watching the TV set, and they said three rock-and-rollers died - Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, The Big Bopper, including the pilot. I walked out of the hotel. I got on the bus alon...”

“I think film and television actually is a lot harder. Acting onstage is physically more arduous, but to get to emotional truth within a scene, it's much tougher to do it on film.”

“The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.”

“In 'Straight Talking,' I had bared my soul, and the press attention had been overwhelming. There were times when I felt scared and vulnerable, regretting the articles I had written to public...”

“Naps are the key to relieving stress. When you are working on two hours of sleep, the fact that cheese comes on something when you ordered it with no cheese is enough to send you crying unde...”

“'Saturday Night Live' is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.”

“Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.”

“The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer...”

“The age of access being offered by taxi-hailing apps like Uber and Ola is the biggest potential threat to auto industry.”

“I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.”

“Penguin is this interesting figure within the city of Gotham. He's this guy who has worked in the shadows and publicly. He's skirted the line between lawful and completely chaotic or villain...”

“Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.”

“Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the 'slippery slope': once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who...”

“Why doesn't something extraordinary happen to me? Because darling, you are the extraordinary that happened to the world.”