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Quotes by Celebrity

"No one country has a team that hold a monopoly on the league like Maccabi does in Israel."

"I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out."


"When I had people scratchin' my shorts a bit, it played better. We lost a bit of that in all the personnel changes and it's an element we need to get back."

"Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me."

"It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one."

"Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong."

"Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities."

"The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive."

"At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was."

"We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education."

"Only one day at public school and the bitches already made your locker rain?" she laughs. "Impressive."


"Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together."


"Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started."

"Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo."

"I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God."

"I don't know Bill Clinton as someone who needs to literally sexually harass a woman. I'm sure that he could have found many willing participants."

"I am Armenian, so of course I am obsessed with laser hair removal! Arms, bikini, legs, underarms... my entire body is hairless."

"God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do."

"I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation."

"We know that Europe loves President Obama. He had adoring crowds. The press loves Obama. The question is how will this date end? Okay? The question is, to what end? Why do they love President Obama? They love his personal story, they love his wife. North Korea, China and Russia don't really care about Michelle's arms and, you know, whether they gave an iPod to the Queen, okay?"


"Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news."

"To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether."

"Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life."


"If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?"

"I approached Red Square three times, trying to find somewhere to land, before discovering a wide bridge nearby. I landed there and taxied into Red Square."

"God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull."

"Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it."


"Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery."

"What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is - stuck. It's been without circulation for 24 hours. It's pretty well gone."

"I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was."


"Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it."

"I love people, and I'm excited that I can turn them on."

"We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work."

"Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents."

"The support in Britain made a big difference."
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