Every accepted public quote

“Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.”

“Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.”

“Iain Duncan Smith and his regime, they wanted to make the poor suffer and then humiliated them by telling them that their poverty was their own fault and, to demonstrate that, if you're not...”

“Tum daulat ki Kya baat karte ho Maine gareeb ko aksar pur sukoon dekha hai”

“I'm a good operator: good with food and good with math.”

“Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in...”

“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.”

“As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.”

“I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.”

“We are always getting ready to live, but never living.”

“Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.”

“I just saw 'Tiny Furniture' and became so obsessed with it that Judd Apatow jokes that I'm the distributor of it. I was making copies and giving them out.”

“Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.”

“Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and ha...”

“I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.”

“Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.”

“I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.”

“Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.”

“Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both...”

“When you start to look at completing the development of a modern professional army, when you talk about maturing a democracy, when you talk about development and the economic conditions that...”

“To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamli...”

“Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.”

“I'm actually enjoying attention. Who wouldn't?”

“But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too.”

“Lost in the often-vitriolic national quarrel over immigration reform is any examination of proposed measures that would result in excessive punishment, such as detention and deportation, for...”

“We record when I have a hole in the schedule. Sometimes night, sometimes afternoon, sometimes morning - we fit it in when we can. I prep for episodes all the time.”

“Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.”

“How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.”

“There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.”

“To maximize time is to make sure that every second, minute and hour counts”

“I love New Orleans. I did a movie there right before Katrina.”

“There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.”

“Maybe it's because I come from a very utopian world of being a comedian, but I'm used to many live comedy performances going on in any city I'm in, and each of us is trying to be the best at...”

“My education has been pro-England. I have been an England-minded citizen of Hamburg, and I am still in a way English-minded, but I have been disappointed by the Brits over the years.”

“Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the flesh.”

“I was in sixth grade the first time I was required to speak in front of an audience. I had terrible stage fright and felt quite ill, in fact, by the time I had to give my little talk to stud...”

“and we laugh and laugh and all I know is at this moment I feel like I can do anything I want and be anyone I want and go anywhere on the globe and still call it home”

“As a mountain walker, one of the most frustrating mistakes one can make in bad weather is taking the wrong route down.”

“I was looking at making a shift in my career. I've been so blessed I'd like to be able to give that back. If I could find young artists, young performers I can nurture to have a career I wou...”

“That migrant families might be menaced or threatened in any way, shape or form when they arrive at our border - often times after an unimaginably arduous journey - is completely unacceptable...”

“We all carry extreme heartache and demons. Instead of pretending like we don't, I like to be honest and real.”

“Once you are successful, there's a very seductive rhythm at work that keeps you wanting to outdo yourself. By the end of 'Spirit' I felt like I didn't want to get into that trap. It almost m...”

“Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spendi...”

“People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in E...”

“I have read the 'Divergent' series. I obviously read 'Harry Potter.'”

“My parents and friends, they're Ph.D.s that worked as custodians, that owned their own businesses, that went bankrupt, that moved seven times, that sent their kid to Harvard, that don't have...”

“Effective tidying involves only three essential actions. All you need to do is take the time to examine every item you own, decide whether or not you want to keep it, then choose where to pu...”

“I would study the best, the most flashy, the guys that had that flair, the guys that had that wow. I'd study those fighters, and I made up my mind that I'd be all of those at once.”