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..we all do it. We talk about people we don't like until they become famous. Then we love 'em.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

People who don’t feel insulted by the ungodliness and injustice around them do not do anything about it.

Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.

In big movies, interests are not aligned between those above the line and the financier, because above the line gets paid whether the movie works or not. The financier only makes money if the movie works, and that fundamentally sets up a contentious relationship.

One of my first jobs was as a recipe tester for a PR agency. One week, the editor of 'Housewife' magazine called my boss and asked me to write a column - the cookery editor had gone away on a press trip. I was terrified.

The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.

While most become star struck by A-list actors, you'll only see me in awe of leaders effecting change. Politician and diplomat Madeleine Albright, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. These are my heroes. These are my celebrities.

I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.

If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.

Jimmy McGovern - I love his writing, and I'm a big fan of him and Alan Clarke.

Growing up, my dad owned a restaurant in Washington, DC, and food was something I was passionate about. But when I finally got into it, I felt like it was so late in the game; that's why I worked seven days a week at Craft and Mercer Kitchen. I wanted to see how far I could take it.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Openness to change is key to implementing new knowledge. That is why one who is indifferent to change is not a friend of knowledge.

I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.

The United States of America was originally an experiment. But it was an experiment in recognizing God-given individual liberty and creating a government in which we no one is deemed better than another. And in which all of us are equal. Not equal in abilities, but equal in intrinsic worth and value.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

In the Internet world, especially in Silicon Valley, everyone is at the ready all the time, and turnaround is relatively short, if not instant.