Every accepted public quote

“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.”

“If you woke up this morning and you are breathing, and you are Muslim, then you are political. You have no choice but to be political in a country that has politicized you and politicized yo...”

“Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enoug...”

“My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.”

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”

“There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know.”

“The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a propheti...”

“While a fundamental responsibility of business leaders is to create value for shareholders, I think businesses also exist to deliver value to society.”

“Brexit is a ceaseless grind of conversations about customs unions and backstops. Anything that can add an air of whimsical, childlike wonder to proceedings can only be a good thing.”

“My life is an open book. You're welcome to speculate.”

“In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.”

“Declare love on anyone who wants to make war with you.”

“We should not be afraid, when praying to God, to give expression to a definite desire, even though we are in doubt at the time we are praying whether it is really the right thing to pray for...”

“I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental...”

“I don't know anybody in the opera business who isn't worried sick about how best to reach out to underpaid millennials who were suckled on the new on-demand pop culture, which supplies them...”

“I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.”

“The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't...”

“Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.”

“If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wan...”

“You will say good-bye for all the right reasons. You're tired of living in wait for his apocalypse. You have your own fight on your hands, and though it's no bigger or more noble than his, i...”

“Skipp and Spector's 'Books of the Dead' were huge influences on me as a writer.”

“Jupiter, Pluto, pick a planet: we can go there. I just got a bit more work to do in the music industry, and we're going to space, baby.”

“I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander.”

“You don't make pictures for Oscars.”

“All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.”

“Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.”

“My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of the person reading aloud to me.”

“I don't want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption.”

“I love cars; I like the idea of manufacturing something, having a product, a hard product to sell and promote, but as time went on, I recognized that car companies are so bureaucratic and so...”

“The past is always recycled. I'm just taking what the people I looked up to did and translating it for my generation.”

“As long as I'm playing week in week out, I'm going to become a better player.”

“In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy o...”

“Experience is the extract of suffering.”

“Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.”

“In Miss Catherine Middleton we have the faintest, intoxicating glimmer of a New Age Cinderella story.”

“We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.”

“I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you.”

“When the state machinery defends criminals and the public prosecutors collude with the accused in certain cases and the victims are members of a particular community, then 'Justice to all' i...”

“Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.”

“The Sabbath provides a wonderful opportunity to strengthen family ties.”

“Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, the stance they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the...”

“Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think...”

“Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation's Governors highest priority.”

“What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation.”

“To be honest, the real reason I did 'Drive' was because of Nicolas Winding Refn, the director.”

“I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they e...”

“Radio astronomy reflects our fascination with how audio can be used to understand information or ideas. Just as scientists visualize data through charts and pictures, we can use 'data sonifi...”

“I always have something by Stevie Wonder in my CD player.”