Quotes

• Jensen Huang

  “Tokens are now profitable, so model makers are in a race to produce more.”

• Jensen Huang

  “It is very clear Compute is revenues.”

• Jensen Huang

  “It's the most popular opensource project in the history of humanity and it did so in just a few weeks.”

• Jensen Huang

  “It started the big bang of AI.”

• Jensen Huang

  “I've said before, if you have the wrong architecture, even if it's free, it's not cheap enough.”

• Jensen Huang

  “This is as big of a deal as HTML.”

• Jensen Huang

  “When you accelerate data processing, when you accelerate computing, you get the benefit of speed, you get the benefit of scale, but most importantly, you also get the benefit of cost.”

• Jensen Huang

  “The Chad GPT moment of self-driving cars has arrived.”

• Jensen Huang

  “He says, "Jensen sandbagged.”

• Jensen Huang

  “People have heard me say I believe that computing demand has increased by 1 million times in the last two years.”

• Jensen Huang

  “The greatest infrastructure buildout in history is underway.”

• Jensen Huang

  “We are an algorithm company.”

• Jensen Huang

  “For any human, this would be a dream come true.”

• Jensen Huang

  “It didn’t matter to us whether people believed in us. We believed in ourselves. We had the courage to follow our own path,”

• Jensen Huang

  “Back then, there wasn’t a counsellor to talk to … you just had to toughen up and move on,”

• Tim Cook

  “John is a brilliant engineer, a deep thinker, a person of remarkable character and a born leader.”

• Tim Cook

  “I just celebrated my 28th anniversary of being here at Apple, 15 years as CEO.”

• Tim Cook

  “We're about making the best products in the world that really enrich other people's lives.”

• Tim Cook

  “Apple TV has also earned its place among the most decorated names in entertainment with more than 800 wins and more than 3,400 nominations in the 6 years since launch.”

• Tim Cook

  “It has been the greatest privilege of my life to be the CEO of Apple and to have been trusted to lead such an extraordinary company,”

• Tim Cook

  “I'm not worried about artificial intelligence giving computers the ability to think like humans.”

• Tim Cook

  “Whatever you do in your life and whatever we do at Apple, we must infuse it with the humanity that each of us is born with.”

• Tim Cook

  “If we could just do that, Steve knew we could really change the world.”

• Tim Cook

  “We are all bound together into a single garment of destiny.”

• Tim Cook

  “So I told him, if you can't accept our position, you shouldn't own Apple stock.”

• Tim Cook

  “And if we are ever going to solve some of the hardest problems still facing the world today, everything from cancer to climate change to educational inequality, then technology will help us do it.”

• Tim Cook

  “He wanted to empower the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes to do their best work.”

• Tim Cook

  “I'm more concerned about people thinking like computers, without values or compassion, without concern for consequences.”

• Andy Jassy

  “There is not one tool to rule the world, and they want choice.”

• Andy Jassy

  “Most of the value companies derive from AI will be through agents.”

• Andy Jassy

  “And normally, that would have taken 40 or 50 people about a year to do, and we took 5 really smart people, AI forward-thinking people building on agentic coding tools and those 5 people rebuilt it in 65 days.”

• Andy Jassy

  “On the use of AI internally and for our current businesses, I think that the shortest first summary I could give you, Colin, is that I do not see a place in any of our businesses or any of the ways that we do work where we're not going to have giant impact on what we do.”

• Andy Jassy

  “If our chips business was a stand-alone business and sold chips produced this year to AWS and other third parties as other leading chip companies do, our annual revenue run rate would be $50 billion.”

• Andy Jassy

  “One of the interesting things that we see right now with the change in price and in supply on things like memory is that it is a further impetus pushing companies who have on-premises infrastructure into the cloud.”

• Andy Jassy

  “And there are so many new applications that none of us have ever imagined or dreamed we could build that are starting to be built and will be built.”

• Andy Jassy

  “We've never seen a technology grow as rapidly as AI.”

• Andy Jassy

  “Like that is a very different world of operating.”

• Andy Jassy

  “There are billions of people around the world who do not have access to broadband connectivity.”

• Andy Jassy

  “Our plan is largely the same, but we do view this as truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity where every application that we know of is going to be reinvented.”

• Andy Jassy

  “And with more than $150 billion in gross sales in 2025, we're now the second largest grocer in the U.S.”

• Andy Jassy

  “As I've said before, the largest absolute place that we see enterprises having success is in projects that are around cost avoidance and productivities.”

• Lisa Su

  “AMD is uniquely positioned to lead in this next phase of AI with leadership products across high-performance service CPUs and AI accelerators and the ability to optimize them together as fully-integrated rack-scale solution.”

• Lisa Su

  “Together with our previously announced OpenAI partnership, these engagements position AMD as a core partner to the world's largest AI infrastructure builders with deep co-engineering relationships and multiyear visibility into large-scale deployments.”

• Lisa Su

  “These results mark a clear inflection in our growth trajectory and a structural shift in our business.”

• Lisa Su

  “Data center is now the primary driver of our revenue and earnings growth.”

• Lisa Su

  “With this expanded visibility, we have strong and increasing confidence in our ability to deliver tens of billions of dollars in annual Data Center AI revenue in 2027 and to exceed our long-term growth target of greater than 80% in the coming years.”

• Lisa Su

  “Our agreement includes a custom GPU accelerator based on our MI450 architecture, co-designed to support Meta's next-generation AI workloads.”

• Lisa Su

  “Based on the demand signals we are seeing today and the structural increase in CPU compute requirements driven by Agentic AI, we now expect the server CPU TAM to grow at greater than 35% annually, reaching over $120 billion by 2030.”

• Lisa Su

  “Commercial was a key highlight in the quarter with sell-through of Ryzen Pro PCs increasing more than 50% year-over-year as Dell, HP and Lenovo broadened their AMD offerings.”

• Lisa Su

  “What I’ve learned over the last 18 months is incredible,”

• Lisa Su

  “Careers are very much by chance,”

• Lisa Su

  “Every day, I’m learning something new about how [AI] is going to be used.”

• Lisa Su

  “The nice thing about my early career is I was lucky enough to have bosses who asked me all the time, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ And I was like, ‘I don’t know. Let me think about [it]…. The ability to learn at each step was what really helped me in my career.”

• Lisa Su

  “It really is one of the great turnaround stories of modern American business history,”

• Lisa Su

  “AI is the Most Important Technology in 50 Years”

• Satya Nadella

  “I think the basic transformation of call it, say, any per user business of ours, whether it's productivity, coding, security will become a per user and usage business.”

• Satya Nadella

  “Our AI business surpassed $37 billion ARR, up 123%.”

• Satya Nadella

  “This will drive TAM expansion and change the value creation equation across the entire economy.”

• Satya Nadella

  “When it comes to security, the physics of cybersecurity has changed as AI compresses the window between vulnerability and exploitation.”

• Satya Nadella

  “The number of customers with over 50,000 seats quadrupled year-over-year and Accenture now has over 740,000 seats, our largest Copilot win to date.”

• Satya Nadella

  “We are at the beginning of one of the most consequential platform [ shifts ] that will change the entire tech stack as agents proliferate and become the dominant workload.”

• Satya Nadella

  “It's the most important database in any company that is constantly changing every second.”

• Satya Nadella

  “I always say this is the UI for AI.”

• Satya Nadella

  “This is the next big step forward, which is a full Coding Agent built right into GitHub taking Copilot from being a pair programmer to a peer programmer.”

• Satya Nadella

  “And these middle innings are where all things happen, all things scale.”

• Satya Nadella

  “You know, we're just about getting into these middle innings of another platform shift.”

• Satya Nadella

  “Technologies will come and go, but the idea that this company can stay relevant by producing technology so that more and more people around the world can create more digital technology … that, I think, is the core thread of Microsoft.”

• Satya Nadella

  “We are going from a pair programmer to a peer programmer,”

• Satya Nadella

  “That very first product of ours — that BASIC interpreter for the Altair — I think says it all,”

• Satya Nadella

  “Nadella’s had the biggest transformation of a tech company potentially ever,”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “My view of AI is very different from many others in the industry.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “People will be more important in the future, not less.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “Instead, I think that AI is going to amplify people's ability to do what you want, whether that's to improve your health, your learning, your relationships, your ability to achieve your personal career goals and more.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “I hear a lot of people out there talk about how AI is going to replace people.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “My view is that human progress has always been driven by people pursuing their individual aspirations.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “But what we're talking about is delivering personal super intelligence for billions of people around the world.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “I didn’t find any of the anecdotal examples that people used to be convincing that it was actually clear evidence that this was going to be harmful.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “I care a lot about not cracking down on the ways that people can express themselves and there’s, like, always been a lot of pressure to do that and censor our services,”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “Whether our communities are houses or sports teams, churches or a cappella groups, they give us that sense that we are a part of something bigger.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “We should explore ideas like universal basic income to make sure that everyone has a cushion to try new ideas.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “Class of 2017, you are graduating into a world that needs purpose. It's up to you to create it.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “This is my story too -- a student in a dorm, connecting one community at a time, and keeping at it until one day we connect the whole world.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “At first I complained: You know, I'm kind of busy, I'm running this company. But she insisted, so I taught an after-school program.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “It was my fault. I wondered if I was just wrong, an impostor, a 22-year-old kid who had no idea how things actually worked.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “Today our society spends more than 50 times as much treating people who are sick as we invest in finding cures so people don't get sick in the first place.”

• Aswath Damodaran

  “At the rumored pricing of $1.8 trillion for the company, it is too richly priced for my tastes,”

• Aswath Damodaran

  “If the prospectus is to be believed, SpaceX has the largest TAM of any company in history,”

• Aswath Damodaran

  “This is a space where managers should learn from what is going on. I am not sure OpenAI is capable of learning and changing the way Anthropic is willing to.”

• Aswath Damodaran

  “With Sam Altman, he is smart and intelligent, but because of his ego, he could overplay his cards, thinking his cards are better than others,”

• Aswath Damodaran

  “And today's prices, I mean, all of the stocks looked overpriced, but I think Nvidia stands out as particularly overpriced.”

• Aswath Damodaran

  “I call them the plastic surgeons of business essentially saying I'll give you a facelift you can be young again and companies keep buying”

• Aswath Damodaran

  “Valuation gives you a life vest.”

• Aswath Damodaran

  “They're the seven most deadly words in investing.”

• Aswath Damodaran

  “I'm a lemming with a life vest.”

• Aswath Damodaran

  “In discounted cash flow valuation, the value of an asset is the present value of the expected cash flows in the asset.”

• Aswath Damodaran

  “Discounted cash flow valuation is the most common tool used for estimating intrinsic value, but it's not the only one.”

• Aswath Damodaran

  “The great irony is the more you know about a company the stronger those preconceptions are and when those preconceptions get set your valuation follows.”

• Aswath Damodaran

  “It's expensive." But then you hear this voice in the back of your head saying, "They must know something that you don't." And when you hear that voice, magical things start happening to your valuation.”

• Aswath Damodaran

  “A good valuation is more about the story than about the numbers.”

• Brian Chesky

  “With loyalty, what I would say is, I've always believed the best loyalty program is people loving your product and coming back.”

• Brian Chesky

  “That being said, it's pretty remarkable how successful Airbnb has become given we're probably the only large travel brand in the world that does not have a loyalty program.”

• Brian Chesky

  “Well, the answer to this, again, we learned from Amazon, is that every subsequent offering we offer is less work than the prior offering because once you solve one service, the next service is only 20% different.”

• Brian Chesky

  “When tariff uncertainty led to fewer people traveling to the U.S. last year, they came to Airbnb and found somewhere else to go.”

• Brian Chesky

  “I do see Amazon as a pretty good inspiration for us.”

• Brian Chesky

  “AI, I think we should think of as an accelerant to everything.”

• Brian Chesky

  “The reason why is the stakes are high, you have -- you cannot hallucinate, you have to answer things very, very quickly because they are calling and they have problems.”

• Brian Chesky

  “So what we have been doing over the last few years is really getting our data warehouse really, really clean because your AI is only as good as your data.”

• Brian Chesky

  “And so I think generally, it's just about being -- moving faster and being more hands on.”

• Brian Chesky

  “I will say, though, that one of my principles is that Airbnb has to move at the speed of AI.”

• Brian Chesky

  “And I think this goes to my final point, which is I don't think anyone figured out AI for travel or e-commerce yet.”

• Brian Chesky

  “In a new world, an engineer can spin up 10 agents.”

• Brian Chesky

  “The reason we decided to start with this is we want to focus on the hardest problem in AI, which we thought was customer service.”

• Brian Chesky

  “Co-founding Airbnb was my discovery of travel—it was the moment I realized there was a bigger world.”

• Brian Chesky

  “There’s this whole way of traveling—I call it mass tourism—where you just stay in a hotel district and do things that the people who live there would never do,”

• Sundar Pichai

  “In terms of allocating TPUs, look, our first priority is making sure we are allocating what we need to compete at the frontier in terms of AGI development and so that is the foundation for everything we do.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “And just like AI Overviews, AI mode is driving an incremental increase in search queries overall, and we are now sending billions of clicks to websites every week through AI features in Search.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “On the speed of model releases, I do think you will see us continue to pick up pace.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “So take the time to find the thing that excites you more than anything else in the world, not the thing your parents want you to do, or the thing that all your friends are doing, or that society expects of you.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “Don't lose that impatience.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “If you can do that, history will remember the Class of 2020, not for what you lost, but for what you changed.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “You will make the world better in your own way, even if you don't know exactly how.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “The ability to ask a computer anything, anywhere, the very thing I've spent my last decade working on, is not amazing to you.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “The more access my family had to technology, the better our lives got.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “It's because they don't realize that the progress of one generation becomes the foundational premise for the next, and it takes a new set of people to come along and realize all the possibilities.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “Be open, be impatient, be hopeful.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “The long arc of history tells us we have every reason to be hopeful.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “The only thing that got me from there to here, other than luck, was a deep passion for technology and an open mind.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “The reason I know you'll prevail is because so many others have done it before you.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “My father spent the equivalent of a year's salary on my plane ticket to the US, so I could attend Stanford.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “It's very conventional for every generation to underestimate the potential of the following one.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “The important thing is to be open-minded, so that you can find what you love.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “It took me a while to realize that the Internet would be the single best way to make technology accessible to more people.”

• Sam Altman

  “I think I am unusually good at projecting multiple things— years or a couple of decades into the future—and understanding how those are going to interact together,”

• Sam Altman

  “Personally, I think that voice is going to become one of the primary ways that people interact with AI.”

• Sam Altman

  “Uh, our goal is to make AI useful for everyone.”

• Sam Altman

  “Uh this is the biggest change to how software gets created that I have ever seen and we can't wait to see what you all will do with it.”

• Sam Altman

  “We think this is the best time in history to be a builder.”

• Sam Altman

  “I think the future is going to be very bright.”

• Sam Altman

  “AI has moved in the last couple of years from systems that you can ask anything to to systems that you can ask to do anything for you.”

• Sam Altman

  “You don’t fire a Steve Jobs,”

• Sam Altman

  “We really do feel just stronger and more unified and more focused than ever,”

• Sam Altman

  “But I wish there had been some other way to get there.”

• Sam Altman

  “But, ah, meeting Jack has been one of the great joys of my life. I’d be delighted to come hang out with Jack for literally any topic.”

• Sam Altman

  “is the equivalent of a median human that you could hire as a co-worker.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “But if every person in this company can increase their throughput by 20%, 30%, 50%, 100% then I think metering headcount growth and leaning in on AI investment is going to be well worth it.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “AI solves all that because essentially, the way that any user wants to interact with your services is up to that user.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “We've now surpassed 50 million Uber One members and 10 million drivers and couriers globally, both important milestones that reflect strong customer loyalty and expanding number of earner opportunities on our platform.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “And the breadth that we have in terms of operating in over 70 countries and many of them, both Mobility and Delivery is really unparalleled.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “Despite a complex backdrop marked by war and weather, we delivered top line and profitability at or above the high end of our guidance.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “Uber had an exceptional start to 2026, driven by strong execution and a continued focus on product innovation.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “AV Mobility trips grew more than 10x year-on-year, and we remain on track to be live in up to 15 cities by the end of the year, including new deployments in the U.S.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “We're also making strong progress across our strategic priorities, including autonomous, where we continue to believe a hybrid network will unlock significant long-term value.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “One of my secrets also is — really, I do give Brown credit for this — this balanced education that I kind of stumbled on,”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “The one common thread that I’ve seen that’s perfectly predictable in an unpredictable world is that great people stay great,”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “Learning all of the… really important basics of engineering, but then marrying that with liberal arts, that really taught me to communicate in a compelling way, which is an absolute necessity when you’re in a leadership position.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “I think there’s a transition that needs to happen, which is to train students to use AI… You’re not going to be put out of work by AI, you’re going to be put out of work by the person who knows how to use AI better.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “Be curious about meeting new people, be curious about interests that are outside of your immediate field of education… and that curiosity will open you up to the world and open you up to opportunity.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “The American Dream is the single most incredible brand in the world. Everyone knows what the American Dream means.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “I’m incredibly lucky to have emigrated to the United States at a time when the US was welcoming,”

• Mary Barra

  “We are onshoring significant manufacturing starting next year, which will bring our U.S. production capacity to more than 2 million units and further reduce our tariff exposure.”

• Mary Barra

  “This strategy has driven 70 basis points of total company margin expansion over the last three years, while our broader peer set has seen margin reduction by 400 basis points.”

• Mary Barra

  “We are really proud of the fact that we have six models at General Motors that start under $30,000.”

• Mary Barra

  “I think it is vital for the country that we continue to make sure everyone is exposed to math and science … because technology touches almost everything we do these days, so I think it's very important for the future workforce,”

• Mary Barra

  “The regulations were getting in front of where the consumer demand was, largely because of charging infrastructure, which hasn’t happened as fast as anybody expected.”

• Mary Barra

  “We still believe in an all-electric future,”

• Mary Barra

  “I never thought the propulsion of a vehicle would become a political issue,”

• Mary Barra

  “General Motors’ goal is to just keep providing great vehicles, keep supporting the charging infrastructure to be more robust … and opening up the Tesla charging network, as well, so people choose it because it’s a great vehicle,”

• Mary Barra

  “What were the technologies that were really going to transform our industry? We started looking at those. And autonomy was one.”

• Mary Barra

  “That’s why we’re so excited to have the Equinox and the Blazer on that because we’re getting into the affordable range, especially when you look at an Equinox EV that will be starting in that mid $30,000 range,”

• Mary Barra

  “I take cybersecurity really seriously from a vehicle perspective, because again, if something goes wrong, it can have dire consequences,”

• Mary Barra

  “I became the CEO in 2014, and in 2015 we actually spent quite a bit of time in Silicon Valley, at Stanford and other places within the leadership team,”

• Mary Barra

  “I am honored to serve as Chair of the Board of Directors. With the support of our Board, we will continue to drive shareholder value by improving our core business and leading in the transformation of personal mobility.”

• Mary Barra

  “In the last 60 years, all of [GM's] chief executives have come out of finance,”

• Elon Musk

  “We need to sort of take a close look at spending and make sure that money is being spent in sensible ways and that it is not wasted or spent on fraudulent activities. And I got a lot of flack for this, obviously,”

• Elon Musk

  “There's far more power available from the sun than anything else by far.”

• Elon Musk

  “And the human hand is an incredible, incredible thing.”

• Elon Musk

  “But I think probably this is the fastest industrial scale-up since World War II in America.”

• Elon Musk

  “But if we injure even one person, it will be worldwide headline news.”

• Elon Musk

  “I don't think such a building exists anywhere on earth.”

• Elon Musk

  “In fact, I mean, probably the best way to scale total energy production in the United States is simply using batteries because there's, I think, around 1.2 or 1.3 terawatts of power production in the U.S., but the average power usage is only 0.5 terawatt.”

• Elon Musk

  “So, let's see, Optimus, as you've heard me say before, I think Optimus will be the biggest product ever, but it is a very complex problem to solve.”

• Elon Musk

  “The second richest person has been hovering around US$300 billion, so about less than one-third of what Musk can potentially be worth tomorrow,”

• Elon Musk

  “It’s very simple: It’s not okay to steal a charity. That’s my view and moreover if the defendants are found not guilty, this case will become case law. It will become precedent and give precedent to looting every charity in America,”

• Elon Musk

  “By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!”

• Elon Musk

  “It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a record FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS that we live in a one-party country – the PORKY PIG PARTY!!”

• Elon Musk

  “I am the alpha in this relationship.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “Inflation is both what people expect, but it's also capital demand, and it seems to me there's a lot of demand for capital,”

• Jamie Dimon

  “Margin debt is the highest it has ever been,”

• Jamie Dimon

  “They bullshit about M&A when they should be focusing on why they're not doing particularly well in an area or something like that.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “You can't just say, "Well, your ROE is going to go to 50% and stay there." If we had a 50% ROE and growing at 10% a year, we'd probably have, in 50 or 60 years, you'd probably be 100% of the GDP of the United States of America.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “I'm not happy to have these numbers falsely done.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “The ultimate beneficiary of AI will be our customers.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “The board made a decision to go ahead with making two co-presidents, which will be preparing them to do far more at the company, be prepared.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “I actually believe it can make the system much safer.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “Why didn't the government do something about it all those years? He was abusing these young women. They knew,”

• Jamie Dimon

  “They've been killing people around the world for 45-plus years. They've killed a lot of Americans. They've funded Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis ... they have terrorist cells here.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “You didn't expect utilities and phone companies in '08, '09, and this time around, it might be software, because of AI.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “I take a deep breath and say `watch out.'”

• Jamie Dimon

  “There will be a cycle one day … I don't know what confluence of events will cause that cycle. My anxiety is high over it,”

• Jamie Dimon

  “I'm here for a few years as CEO, and maybe a few after that, as executive chairman,”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “A study in the last two years of people entering the workforce out of college showed that 57 percent of boys entering, or men, I guess, are negotiating their first salary, and only seven percent of women.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “Number one: sit at the table.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “And the problem is this: Women are not making it to the top of any profession anywhere in the world.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “Of all the people in parliament in the world, 13 percent are women.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “He changed exactly one word: "Heidi" to "Howard." But that one word made a really big difference.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “The bad news was that everyone liked Howard.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “And so I said, "Did you just move into this office?" And he said, "No, we've been here about a year." And I said, "Are you telling me that I am the only woman to have pitched a deal in this office in a year?" And he looked at me, and he said, "Yeah.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “Because what the data shows, above all else, is one thing, which is that success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “If a woman and a man work full-time and have a child, the woman does twice the amount of housework the man does, and the woman does three times the amount of childcare the man does.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “Because no one gets to the corner office by sitting on the side, not at the table, and no one gets the promotion if they don't think they deserve their success, or they don't even understand their own success.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “190 heads of state -- nine are women.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “And three, don't leave before you leave.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “The numbers have not moved since 2002 and are going in the wrong direction.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “And if two years ago you didn't take a promotion and some guy next to you did, if three years ago you stopped looking for new opportunities, you're going to be bored because you should have kept your foot on the gas pedal.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “I think there's a really deep irony to the fact that actions women are taking -- and I see this all the time -- with the objective of staying in the workforce actually lead to their eventually leaving.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “In the high-income part of our workforce, in the people who end up at the top -- Fortune 500 CEO jobs, or the equivalent in other industries -- the problem, I am convinced, is that women are dropping out.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “And most importantly, men attribute their success to themselves, and women attribute it to other external factors.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home, and I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “A recent study in the U.S. showed that, of married senior managers, two-thirds of the married men had children and only one-third of the married women had children.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “We also have another problem, which is that women face harder choices between professional success and personal fulfillment.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “I've become convinced that we've made more progress in the workforce than we have in the home.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “I think a world where half of our countries and our companies were run by women, would be a better world.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “Don't make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you're not even conscious you're making.”

• Bill Gates

  “In fact, if there's one positive thing that can come out of the Ebola epidemic, it's that it can serve as an early warning, a wake-up call, to get ready.”

• Bill Gates

  “If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war.”

• Bill Gates

  “And as you look at what went on, the problem wasn't that there was a system that didn't work well enough, the problem was that we didn't have a system at all.”

• Bill Gates

  “There's no need to panic.”

• Bill Gates

  “We're not ready for the next epidemic.”

• Bill Gates

  “There's a group of handsome epidemiologists ready to go, they move in, they save the day, but that's just pure Hollywood.”

• Bill Gates

  “But we need to get going, because time is not on our side.”

• Bill Gates

  “The World Bank estimates that if we have a worldwide flu epidemic, global wealth will go down by over three trillion dollars and we'd have millions and millions of deaths.”

• Bill Gates

  “So far the score is germs: 1, people: 0.”

• Bill Gates

  “Today the greatest risk of global catastrophe doesn't look like this.”

• Bill Gates

  “We have advances in biology that should dramatically change the turnaround time to look at a pathogen and be able to make drugs and vaccines that fit for that pathogen.”

• Bill Gates

  “We need a medical reserve corps: lots of people who've got the training and background who are ready to go, with the expertise.”

• Bill Gates

  “When I was a kid, the disaster we worried about most was a nuclear war.”

• Bill Gates

  “You can have a virus where people feel well enough while they're infectious that they get on a plane or they go to a market.”

• Bill Gates

  “The source of the virus could be a natural epidemic like Ebola, or it could be bioterrorism.”

• Bill Gates

  “Not missiles, but microbes.”

• Bill Gates

  “So next time, we might not be so lucky.”

• Bill Gates

  “We need to do simulations, germ games, not war games, so that we see where the holes are.”

• Billie Eilish

  “But it was literally my mom who told me, ‘Hey, James Cameron has been really obsessed with your show from afar.’”

• Billie Eilish

  “Love you all, but there’s a few people in here that have a lot more money than me. If you are a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?”

• Billie Eilish

  “The main thing that I’ve learned in working with so many companies and making my own merch and my perfume is that everyone can actually do it. It’s just that mostly they don’t.”

• Billie Eilish

  “And then it’s some of the biggest artists in the world making f–king 40 different vinyl packages that have a different unique thing just to get you to keep buying more.”

• Billie Eilish

  “You would not believe how wasteful this industry is,”

• Billie Eilish

  “I think that with Hit Me Hard and Soft it’s like the first time since I’ve been an adult and maybe ever in my kind of creative life… it truly is the most genuine thing I’ve ever made,”

• Billie Eilish

  “I grew up thinking that every family was like that. I thought that everyone was singing all the time and playing music with their family.”

• Billie Eilish

  “But I just didn't understand ... I was never planning on talking about my sexuality ever, in a million years.”

• Billie Eilish

  “And this time, I literally was like, 'I don't care. I don't even want it to get better.'”

• Billie Eilish

  “I've been in love with girls for my whole life,”

• Billie Eilish

  “The way that I exist in the room is different, my voice has completely changed since then… The voice-changing thing is a trip! It’s all kind of shocking.”

• Kim Kardashian

  “It was the wildest idea that I was going to law school - but to me it all makes sense and I hope that I'm forever curious and always want to try new things,”

• Kim Kardashian

  “I guess I just don't live in those expectation boxes,”

• Kim Kardashian

  “I push for it all the time, but I also protect them when, you know, it’s time for that. And it goes in waves and phases and it’s a lot of work,”

• Kim Kardashian

  “It’s not easy. But, I mean, I raise the kids, you know, full-time,”

• Kim Kardashian

  “They live with me. I welcome a great, healthy relationship with my kids and their dad, and I think he knows that.”

• Kim Kardashian

  “A tally. I mean, I don't have a concept of what, like, certain simple things cost,”

• Kim Kardashian

  “I'd like to know a little bit more about what like a milk carton costs.”

• Kim Kardashian

  “You know? I don't think I'd be surprised at that.”

• Kim Kardashian

  “She’s an important part of our DNA. We started with her doing our first photo shoot and coming up with a lot of the concepts. And even this office, having a big sculpture of hers here that we look at is super inspiring,”

• Kim Kardashian

  “When we started Skims, we obviously had high hopes, but I never thought of retail and how that would look.…We were very focused on direct-to-consumer and everything online. So a Fifth Avenue store exceeds all of the expectations that I had.”

• Kim Kardashian

  “I started off my first job in retail. So my favorite thing to do, I would always steam all the merchandise in the back. So I asked them to save some pieces for me to steam.”

• Kim Kardashian

  “It felt like I had more to prove.”

• Kim Kardashian

  “I’ve always felt the doubt, and I’ve always just taken that as motivation to have me focus more and work harder,”

• Kim Kardashian

  “At the end of the day, it’s really important to own up to [mistakes], because people will ultimately respect that so much more if you take accountability,”

• Viola Davis

  “The other collaborators – that’s not their life work, telling stories, making them better and wanting to make them better. One of the great things for me is she just kept pushing me – sometimes I walk away too soon. I shouldn’t, and I didn’t in this case.”

• Viola Davis

  “because what it encapsulates is someone stepping into their purpose. It gives me goose bumps. And that’s how I felt about Michael B Jordan.”

• Viola Davis

  “Michael B Jordan is an incredible human and an incredible leader,”

• Viola Davis

  “It was a chance to live in another world,”

• Viola Davis

  “That’s just 30% of who I am in that book. There’s a lot of things you don’t remember, a lot of things you can’t fit in, a lot of things that you haven’t processed yet and a lot of things you don’t want to share,”

• Viola Davis

  “Homebody, totally. I'm total introvert,”

• Viola Davis

  “To make it so it's not a lightning rod. And I think that's why this story is so good, why it's so powerful, because we're going into areas that people aren't [talking about]. We need to talk about it.”

• Viola Davis

  “I felt a responsibility to women who have been sexually assaulted and raped, especially children, as I am one of them,”

• Viola Davis

  “All of it. Every single bit of my story influenced all of these characters. I feel that it is my duty to honor six-year-old Viola. I can't sort of think about her dimples without thinking about the fact that she always felt ugly.”

• Viola Davis

  “I can change the way Black women are seen,”

• Viola Davis

  “Once I leave Juilliard, most of what I’ll be asked to do are Black characters which people will not feel that I am Black enough,”

• Viola Davis

  “I feel that as a Black actress, I’m always being tasked to show that I have range by doing white work,”

• Viola Davis

  “I think I decided to be an actor because acting was just a cosmic carrot for a much higher journey. A journey in finding me, finding a sense of belonging, finding my worth,”

• Viola Davis

  “Everything! I was in shock that I could do it. When I started, I’m not gonna lie, I told my husband: ‘I don’t know if this is gonna work, but I’m gonna do the best I can.’ Then, all of a sudden we were doing it… and I’m still alive!”

• Viola Davis

  “I approached her like a real woman,”

• John Thune

  “His priorities are going to be to nuke the filibuster, pass the SAVE Act, fire the parliamentarian,”

• John Thune

  “You don’t have the votes,”

• John Thune

  “I’ve indicated to him in most cases — not all — that what he wants done, we just don’t have the votes for, and there’s nothing I can do to change that.”

• John Thune

  “it comes down to arithmetic.”

• John Thune

  “Even in this circumstance, if we don’t get what he wants, there’ll be another battle down the road, and we’re going to have to work together.”

• John Thune

  “I would hope, at least, that if the president finds his way to endorse in the race, that he would endorse John Cornyn,”

• John Thune

  “I think the president understands, he’s got a job, I have a job. They’re different, but we sort of need each other,”

• John Thune

  “His style, obviously, is very transactional. What you see is what you get. He is a New York politician in the true sense of the word, and you just have to go into every conversation knowing that he is going to be driven by politics.”

• John Thune

  “I would be very surprised in the end, when the government opens up, if he’s one of the votes to open it,”

• John Thune

  “They’re very hierarchical on their side. They’re very top down. They vest their leader with a ton of power that I don’t have. And we’re more entrepreneurial, independent thinking. They’re very ideologically aligned. But I also think they’ve been browbeaten into submission.”

• John Thune

  “At the same time, as you know, I don’t over-promise. And I like to keep expectations realistic. And I like to be straight with people.”

• John Thune

  “And I think I have to spell out as clearly as I can to anybody who asks, what the challenges are in the Senate.”

• John Thune

  “We will do the job that the founders intended us to do in the United Senate and that the American people intended us to do. And that right now after this mandate election coming out of the American people, is to work with this president,”

• John Thune

  “Thune is not McConnell, and he has a different type of leadership style than that,”

• John Thune

  “This Republican team is united behind President Trump’s agenda, and our work starts today.”

• Jony Ive

  “There is no question that OpenAI would love to have a direct relationship with its customers rather than delivering services via devices made by or powered by Apple, Google, or others,”

• Jony Ive

  “And I actually think it represents an impediment to doing new, useful work.”

• Jony Ive

  “wouldn't obey rules that were perceived to be accepted wisdom, and he had an extraordinary optimism and enthusiasm. Ultimately, Steve's legacy is a set of values and, I think, the belief in trying.”

• Jony Ive

  “I was interested in how you go from what you see to what you perceive, what something might mean to you,”

• Jony Ive

  “As time goes on, I appreciate him more, and miss him more; how truly extraordinary he was becomes clearer. Steve understood the creative process in a way that's extremely rare, but he also understood how you make a company with lots of people.”

• Jony Ive

  “absurdly curious and constantly looking for alternatives.”

• Jony Ive

  “We are conspicuously different in that and it is an important part of who we are.”

• Jony Ive

  “We try to define a solution that seems so inevitable that it does recede,”

• Jony Ive

  “But I am confident that the mistakes weren't all from laziness or some self satisfying belief that it inevitably can be successful. I think we are a bunch of very anxious, worrying individuals who generally assume it's not going to work.”

• Jony Ive

  “Nine years ago, the iPhone didn’t exist, and the most personal product we had was too big to carry around with you,”

• Jony Ive

  “Whether it’s a knife, a needle, or a machine, we all need the help of a device.”

• Jony Ive

  “It’s easy to assume that just because you make something in small volumes, not using many tools, that there is integrity and care — that is a false assumption.”

• Jony Ive

  “We don’t think about what we do in those terms,”

• Jony Ive

  “If people struggle to use the technology then we have failed.”

• Jony Ive

  “It's that love of the material that drives so much of what we do.”

• Simone Biles

  “I knew the backlash I would face. I worried about being cancelled,”

• Simone Biles

  “The world doesn’t need you to be perfect,”

• Simone Biles

  “It needs you to be bold, to care and to keep going even when things don’t go as planned.”

• Simone Biles

  “But I also knew one thing – I wasn’t letting myself down.”

• Simone Biles

  “I feel like if you ask me next year, maybe, I’d be like, ‘Oh, I miss that.’ But it’s crazy because I don’t get up every day and think like, ‘Oh, I wish I could flip.’ I flipped for 22 years of my life, so being right side up is kind of nice.”

• Simone Biles

  “There’s such high expectations on me that I’m supposed to win, so whenever I do win or get whatever medal that is, I feel relief off my shoulder like, ‘I did it. I’m done. Let’s move on to the next,’”

• Simone Biles

  “Whenever I see somebody else accomplish it, I feel like that’s the excitement I get because I’ve seen the hours and I wish I could celebrate myself like that,”

• Simone Biles

  “A couple years ago, I didn't think I'd be back here, so competing and walking away with four medals, I'm not mad at it. I'm pretty proud of myself.”

• Simone Biles

  “I'm doing what I love and enjoying it, so that's all that matters to me.”

• Simone Biles

  “We’ve been able to take care of our hair better and take care of our beauty routines better, because it’s self-taught,”

• Simone Biles

  “I understand and realize I have to take care of my physical appearance as well as my mental,”

• Simone Biles

  “He always says, ‘Smile like you’re the best out there. Nobody can do it like you. You have to trust your training [and] trust your process,’”

• Simone Biles

  “I’m finally learning to love my hair and the texture that I have and the styles that I can do,”

• Simone Biles

  “But I won’t be able to do my career forever.”

• Simone Biles

  “I'm making a bigger effort to take care of my mind and my body, which includes therapy once a week. Thursdays are my therapeutic days, a moment for myself,”

• Adele

  “And I don’t think anyone else should sing my songs.”

• Adele

  “Being in such an amazing relationship with someone that’s so there for me and so loyal and is really part of my core now, that’s what made me write about everything I’ve ever done, because I’ve got his love,”

• Adele

  “She’s the kind of artist who likes to try to maintain her authenticity. She likes to feel real, for want of a better expression, and that means she was quite uncomfortable with celebrity, so she quite deliberately took time out,”

• Adele

  “The love songs on this record are about overcoming obstacles in relationships. And that’s actually the best feeling in the world,”

• Adele

  “Sometimes I wish I had it in me to attempt to evolve record by record like legends do,”

• Adele

  “I’m also super fascinated by going from loving someone so much to hating them. That’s what ‘All I Ask’ is.”

• Adele

  “My man is strong. So we spoke early on, and he said, 'Your writing isn't anything to do with me.' He's fine with it. And it takes a strong man, I think, to be like that.”

• Adele

  “In order for me to feel confident with one of my songs it has to really move me,”

• Adele

  “He said I was insecure, when I'm the least-insecure person I know,”

• Adele

  “I like to be dramatic. I’m a bit of a drama queen. There’s nothing more poignant in my life than anyone else’s life, it’s just I write about it, so it lasts forever.”

• Adele

  “100 percent, I was so frightened that no one cared,”

• Adele

  “Straight away, I felt a little bit silly singing ‘Hello, it’s me,’ but straight away I loved the verse and I knew it was going to be the first thing I came back with me.”

• Adele

  “It’s been a very slow process for me. I’ve been sitting on an album for quite a while, keeping everything secret,”

• Adele

  “it became obvious pretty quickly I wasn’t in the headspace to access my creativity. So I decided not to do it until I felt ready.”

• Adele

  “I feel like the idea of calling the albums after my age is sort of like taking a photograph of my life,”

• Tom Brady

  “I loved not getting hit. I've got a lot of really fun things I'm involved in. It's never going to get old throwing passes to incredible athletes on the football field, but if anything, that game reconfirmed to me that I'm very happy in my retirement.”

• Tom Brady

  “I would never say never,”

• Tom Brady

  “Obviously, over a long period of time, we've had one of the most dominant women's USA teams on a global stage that the world's ever seen, so I think we understand the level of competition. Look, every kid in America grows up playing soccer.”

• Tom Brady

  “I’m incredibly humbled and excited to have been unanimously approved as an owner of the Las Vegas Raiders. Throughout my NFL career, I’ve learned that at its core, football is a game of teamwork, resilience, and a relentless pursuit of excellence,”

• Tom Brady

  “If I can communicate that in a positive way to the viewer, great. We’re on live television. I’m not going to lie about anything I’m seeing to the audience. That’s the audience that I’m trying to be as raw and unfiltered with as possible.”

• Tom Brady

  “I look at so many of these young athletes who are never forced to go outside of their comfort zone. What do they do? They're told how great they are their whole life. They have people who coddle them. They never have to push beyond their limits.”

• Tom Brady

  “And we look at all the hardest things that have ever happened in our life and the biggest challenges we've ever faced. We look back at those and we realize those are absolutely the best things that could have happened.”

• Tom Brady

  “To me, failure is amazing,”

• Tom Brady

  “I imagine not playing. And I imagine watching football on Sundays going, ‘These guys suck.’ I could do way better than that. And then still knowing in my heart that I actually could still do it.”

• Tom Brady

  “Nothing of significance in life is accomplished as an individual,”

• Tom Brady

  “Let me make this crystal clear, there is no other coach in the world I would rather play for than Bill Belichick,”

• Tom Brady

  “I look at a lot of players like Ray Lewis and Rodney Harrison and Ronnie Lott and guys that impacted the game in a certain way -- and every hit they would have made would have been a penalty [today],”

• Tom Brady

  “I think there's a lot of mediocrity in today's NFL. I don't see the excellence that I saw in the past,”

• Jeff Bezos

  “If I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit companies will be much, much larger than the good that I do with my charitable giving,”

• Jeff Bezos

  “The way … you make $1 billion, or $100 million or $10 million or anything, is you create a service that people love, and if millions of people choose your service, you’re going to end up with a billion dollars,”

• Jeff Bezos

  “You have a bunch of people in this country who are doing really well, but you also have a bunch of people in this country who are struggling.”

• Jeff Bezos

  “So what’s happening here is, politicians are using the kind of age old technique ... you know, picking a villain and pointing fingers, but the problem is that doesn’t solve anything,”

• Jeff Bezos

  “How about we start by having the nurse in Queens not pay taxes?”

• Jeff Bezos

  “It's because investors at this moment haven't learned yet how to discriminate between good ideas and bad ideas, and that's OK, because the good ideas will pay for all of the losers,”

• Jeff Bezos

  “Even if it does turn out to be a bubble, you shouldn't worry about it because the bubble is driving investment and a lot of the investment is going to turn out to be very healthy,”

• Jeff Bezos

  “A lot of investors lost money on certain things, but we still got to keep all the life-saving drugs that they had invented.”

• Jeff Bezos

  “I would caution people who think it’s all science fiction to be a little cautious with their judgment, because it is real, it is happening.”

• Jeff Bezos

  “There's something very powerful about zero.”

• Jeff Bezos

  “1% of taxpayers pay 40% of all the tax revenue; the bottom half pay only 3%. I think it should be zero,”

• Jeff Bezos

  “But you can't hoard investment. So if you have stock in a company, that's not hoarding. That's investing. And investing is more like farming,”

• Jeff Bezos

  “I think that extra 10 years of experience actually improved the odds that Amazon would succeed,”

• Jeff Bezos

  “There's a lot of stuff you would learn in a great company that will help you, and then there's still lots of time to start a company after you have absorbed it.”

• Jeff Bezos

  “The only time I ever think about it, genuinely, is when a doctor asks me to fill out a form.”

• Zohran Mamdani

  “For far too long, all we've had to say as a party is opposition to the current administration. What do we have to say beyond that?”

• Zohran Mamdani

  “She would talk about how we have to invest in babies, not bombs.”

• Zohran Mamdani

  “I think a democratic socialist can get elected anywhere across this country for any position,”

• Zohran Mamdani

  “I always said that I believed in the importance of taxing the rich. This is taxing the rich,”

• Zohran Mamdani

  “He’s the president of the United States of America. I’m the mayor of New York City, and we know that so much of what the city needs is also dependent on a relationship with the federal administration,”

• Zohran Mamdani

  “On Day 8 [of the term], we announced a $1.2 billion agreement with Gov. Kathy Hochul to put our city on the pathway to universal child care,”

• Zohran Mamdani

  “A pied-a-terre tax has been something that has long been fought for in the city but hasn’t been possible to get over the finish line. It’s been really exciting to work with the governor to win something that many thought would never have a chance,”

• Zohran Mamdani

  “We are not only providing free child care for every 3-year-old in the city, we’re now doing it for 2-year-olds as well. By the end of our first term, we will see every single 2-year-old receiving free child care across the five boroughs of New York City.”

• Zohran Mamdani

  “The president and I both want this city to succeed. This is how you do it,”

• Zohran Mamdani

  “It's the joy and honor and privilege of a lifetime to be the mayor of New York City… I'm really proud of what we've been doing,”

• Zohran Mamdani

  “And it will require someone who's experienced, who is fluent in the landscape as it is, and who is ambitious and imaginative towards the landscape, as it could be. And I can think of no better person than the man alongside me.”

• Zohran Mamdani

  “This is truly the honor and privilege of a lifetime.”

• Zohran Mamdani

  “I am not afraid of my own ideas,”

• Zohran Mamdani

  “I will be the mayor for every New Yorker, whether you voted for me, for Gov. Cuomo or felt too disillusioned by a long, broken political system to vote at all,”

• Alex Spiro

  “Some of the most important cases of my career have been cases of people that no one has ever heard of… but when I catch prosecutors hiding evidence on Alec Baldwin, it helps every defendant in New Mexico,”

• Alex Spiro

  “But when the movie’s done, he will leave Earth in a far, far more material place than anyone else, frankly, maybe ever,”

• Alex Spiro

  “The person that thinks about their case the hardest usually wins.”

• Alex Spiro

  “He’s going to bring people to space. Nobody else could do that. Neurolink is going to save people and give people their vision back, and do things that no one thought was ever medically possible,”

• Alex Spiro

  “True Justice is coming. We fight FROM victory, not FOR victory. This was over before it began. This 1-800 lawyer doesn’t realize it yet, but, soon.”

• Alex Spiro

  “This case isn’t even a real case. This is the airline-upgrade corruption case,”

• Alex Spiro

  “The indictment in this case alleges a ‘bribery’ scheme that does not meet the definition of bribery and indeed does not amount to a federal crime at all,”

• Alex Spiro

  “So I haven't lost a case in 13, 14 years … it's all a matter of perspective.”

• Alex Spiro

  “I think when I started off I only had one speed, but then I developed others. You don't have to go hard at every witness, you don't have to be breathless.”

• Alex Spiro

  “I have told everybody, every time, when I was a junior prosecutor I did lose a couple of cases,”

• Alex Spiro

  “There were times when I could have stepped around walls, and instead I went right through them.”

• Alex Spiro

  “I represent arguably the greatest, most successful athlete that ever lived,”

• Alex Spiro

  “I don’t know what a celebrity lawyer is,”

• Alex Spiro

  “But given the task at hand, the gravity, the complexity, and the mountains that are gonna have to be climbed, I’m more involved.”

• Alex Spiro

  “The First Amendment does not [just] protect compliments and happy speak, it protects unfavorable speech. It protects all speech,”

• Alex Spiro

  “If we start policing speech, where are we? We're in a bad place in our society and in our world.”

• Meryl Streep

  “I just saw ‘Death of a Salesman’ last night. I can’t believe Laurie Metcalf just blew my mind... all of them! And I thought, ‘I better just retire, because I don’t know how the fuck she did that.’ What an artist.”

• Meryl Streep

  “I go into everything, not knowing how people do it. And you sort of feel and listen and pick it up as you go along. But I don’t have a method — when you say ‘Oh, you went method,’ I don’t even know what ‘the method’ is. I never studied it.”

• Meryl Streep

  “I think we tend to Marvel-ize the movies now. We got the villains and we got the good guys, and it’s so boring,”

• Meryl Streep

  “We should not be surprised that these profound changes come at a steeper cost than we originally thought. We should not be surprised that not everyone is actually cool with it.”

• Meryl Streep

  “I feel so lucky to be able to come back to something we did 20 years ago. Who gets to do that? We've had a whole lifetime. Look at Stanley Tucci! He's blossomed! [Emily Blunt] blossomed at birth.”

• Meryl Streep

  “It’s cross culture. We’ve just been around the world with this. The reaction is the same in Mexico City as Tokyo, as Seoul, as Shanghai... I honestly was surprised. I really was surprised by the universality of the response and from so many different kinds of people.”

• Meryl Streep

  “It makes me so happy! Would we have fashion without gay people?”

• Meryl Streep

  “It’s compensatory. The advancements of women in the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of this one have been destabilizing. It’s as if women have to say, 'I’m little. I can’t walk in these shoes. I can’t run. I’m bare, not threatening,'”

• Meryl Streep

  “I think the most… powerful message that our current first lady sent was in the coat that said ‘I Really Don’t Care, Do U?’ when she was going to see migrant children who were incarcerated,”

• Meryl Streep

  “History is shaped not only by those who make it, but by those who ensure it is remembered. I am proud to continue supporting this essential work so that future generations inherit a history that is both truthful and complete,”

• Meryl Streep

  “The demand that grew during those years for pesticide-free and sustainably grown food gave farmers confidence there would be a market for organics, and they undertook the cost of transitioning their fields to sustainable practice.”

• Meryl Streep

  “Once you know how to search out and credit the facts around certain problems, you are called on by your conscience to act on them. The Vassar conscience rings a bell in your head; it’s a call to action in your heart.”

• Meryl Streep

  “She was a mentor because she said to me, 'Meryl, you're capable. You're so great.' She was saying, 'You can do whatever you put your mind to. If you're lazy, you're not going to get it done. But if you put your mind to it, you can do anything.' And I believed her.”

• Meryl Streep

  “Go to the [Vassar] Farm. Walk through the gate and into the 500 red, green, and golden acres of inspiration of the Ecological Preserve. Breathe in courage, exhale resolve. And know that every action you take—or don’t take—matters.”

• Meryl Streep

  “Mothers and Others, in the 10 years that it operated, grew from 20 of my neighbors to a membership of 35,000 informed consumers,”

• Meryl Streep

  “One value of a Vassar education is that it kind of dooms you to a life of awareness … Once you know how to search out and credit the facts around certain problems, you are called on by your conscience to act on them. The Vassar conscience rings a bell in your head; it’s a call to action in your heart.”

• Ketanji Brown Jackson

  “Courts are designed to be scary, and we really need to make sure that the people who are appearing in front of us understand what’s going on,”

• Ketanji Brown Jackson

  “I have been quite a vocal critic of the court in terms of its use of the emergency docket,”

• Ketanji Brown Jackson

  “We really are part of America. We can do the same things they can do Outside here – we can probably do them better because we’re in Alaska. But, you know, those big themes are true for all of us.”

• Ketanji Brown Jackson

  “They want to know how I'm going to perform in this job and in this environment, and so I'm doing my best work as well as I can do, because I want people to see and know that I can do anything just like anyone else.”

• Ketanji Brown Jackson

  “As a democracy, the people are supposed to be the rulers. The people are supposed to be leading in terms of the policies and the way in which our government operates. And so, the more that people are engaged with our institutions the better.”

• Ketanji Brown Jackson

  “I am actually heartened that people are focused on the court and the work that we're doing on the state of the government.”

• Ketanji Brown Jackson

  “The idea of giving up on yourself was never really a choice for me, because my parents, who were public school teachers when I was born, decided that they were going to ensure that I knew that I could do anything I wanted to.”

• Ketanji Brown Jackson

  “A dissent is the opportunity for the justices to express their differing views with respect to what the majority has done,”

• Ketanji Brown Jackson

  “A binding code of ethics is pretty standard for judges, and so I guess the question is 'Is the Supreme Court any different?'”

• Ketanji Brown Jackson

  “But I think that's aspirational. I would like to be better at forging consensus.”

• Ketanji Brown Jackson

  “I was concerned about a system that appeared to provide immunity for one individual under one set of circumstances, when we have a criminal justice system that had ordinarily treated everyone the same,”

• Ketanji Brown Jackson

  “No one can match Justice Breyer in that skill… But I think that's aspirational. I would like to be better at forging consensus.”

• Ketanji Brown Jackson

  “The primary takeaway from the past 250 years of recorded American history is that presidents are not kings,”

• Ketanji Brown Jackson

  “I can only hope that my life and career, my love of this country and the Constitution ... will inspire future generations of Americans,”

• LeBron James

  “I still truly love this game, and I have more to give,”

• LeBron James

  “This is my last decision. I'm not going for money. I'm not going for family. What am I really playing for at this point?”

• LeBron James

  “I still want to sacrifice. I still want to work. I still want to grind. I still want to compete, to win and to have a chance at the feeling of winning another championship.”

• LeBron James

  “He’s the one who’s given me so much game and has taught me so much.”

• LeBron James

  “One of the biggest factors as far as when the process for me becomes overbearing, and I don’t want to show up to the arena five hours earlier, or I don’t want to be at practice two and a half hours before practice start,”

• LeBron James

  “So many other factors that I’m factoring in right now on what not only best fit me as a player, what best fit me as a person, what best fit me as my happiness, and also with my family as well.”

• LeBron James

  “One of my main goals… is to open doors for kids that look like me growing up in the inner city,”

• LeBron James

  “In sports, there's always conversations, like, 'When is he going to retire? He needs to retire. He's this age. He's that age,'”

• LeBron James

  “I've been saying 'trust the process' since I was drafted in, like, 2003. I don't know if Embiid was even born yet.”

• LeBron James

  “So everyone feels coming into the season, thinking, 'This could be our year.' Every fanbase feels like this could be our year as well.”

• LeBron James

  “There's been eight straight years of different champions,”

• LeBron James

  “But, why? Why? Why are we trying to force people that are still doing what they do at a high level, why are we trying to force a narrative of it's time to retire?”

• LeBron James

  “I heard Warriors ... I heard Philly ... Miami ... This guy just told me to come to the Yankees.”

• LeBron James

  “That was a hell of a question and some of the media people in here probably should learn from you, young fella,”

• LeBron James

  “You ask somebody who grew up in the LeBron era ... they're still gonna say Jordan.”

• LeBron James

  “If there's a general manager and he's eyeballing all of us on a baseline, with the No. 1 pick, it's gonna be hard not to take me, champ,”

• LeBron James

  “You ask somebody that grew up in the Jordan era, they're gonna say Jordan,”

• LeBron James

  “Rest his soul, Kobe will say the same thing. Magic will say the same thing. Bird will say the same thing. Shaq could say the same thing. The late great Wilt. Kareem. I don't think none of us are going to take somebody else.”

• Willem Dafoe

  “That’s a part of his daily personhood on set. I mean, he’ll just start improvising songs and singing. He’s very physical. He’ll sort of dance in a moment on his own, without having been inspired to do it by anything or anyone. He’s a truly free person.”

• Willem Dafoe

  “I mean this in such a positive way: He’s very unsentimental. There was never a sense that he was like, ‘You know what, kid? You’re going to be alright,'”

• Willem Dafoe

  “He’s very relaxed. He has a sort of open-minded but easeful way about him. He’s a livewire too, though. And I don’t think you see that in the movie,”

• Willem Dafoe

  “There is no precise meaning as the etymology can be vague or evocative,”

• Willem Dafoe

  “The idea is to think ALTER as in change — NATIVE as your nature. Or ALTER as in other — NATIVE as the culture one is from.”

• Willem Dafoe

  “Jesus rejects his job and lives as a normal man. He has children, he has sex. That was too scandalous for people, so even without seeing the movie, there were huge protests against it,”

• Willem Dafoe

  “I like doing things. I like someone to say what they see, and then I like to try to embody it. I like doing things and embodying characters.… It challenges your perceptions, your prejudices.”

• Willem Dafoe

  “You are not THE Jesus Christ. You are one Jesus Christ,”

• Willem Dafoe

  “They complained about the idea of it, they hadn’t seen the movie. Jesus rejects his job and lives as a normal man; he has children, he has sex. That was scandalous for them.”

• Willem Dafoe

  “Put any one of you up on a cross and you’d have an experience.”

• Willem Dafoe

  “To play Jesus Christ you’ve got to remember you’re not the Jesus Christ, you’re a Jesus Christ.”

• Willem Dafoe

  “Then it morphed into a strange thing about Jews in Hollywood and it snowballed. The perception was it was the Catholic church – it wasn’t, it was the fundamental right in America. It really did keep it from being wildly distributed.”

• Willem Dafoe

  “I like doing the action stuff. When the first Spider-Man was made, we were still using wires – it’s very concrete, very tangible.”

• Willem Dafoe

  “People say, ‘Don’t you want to direct?’ It’s like, Hell no! Because I’m not through with that performance stuff.”

• Willem Dafoe

  “The job is always different, and you’re always calibrating in relationship to the people, to how you’re feeling. It’s for that reason that I’ll never tire of performing,”

• Jennifer Lawrence

  “The experience only adds to the dread, because I’ve had so many experiences of working so hard on something, loving something so deeply, and then releasing it to the world, and the world just being like, ‘Boo! Hate you!’ It is so awful,”

• Jennifer Lawrence

  “Christian Bale changed me a lot”

• Jennifer Lawrence

  “If he didn’t like something, he was just like: ‘That was terrible. Looked like shit. Do it better.’ And that was a very helpful conversation. How so? I don’t know. ‘Slower! Not so loud!’ I’m not sensitive. I don’t know how you can be in this industry.”

• Jennifer Lawrence

  “Doing interviews is really scary. I’m very blessed, I’m very lucky, I’m very grateful. But it’s terrifying,”

• Jennifer Lawrence

  “I’m voting for Kamala Harris because I think she’s an amazing candidate, and I know that she will do whatever she can to protect reproductive rights. That’s the most important thing, is to not let somebody into the White House who is going to ban abortion.”

• Jennifer Lawrence

  “[Expletive], that’s it. Nobody’s gonna believe that I fell two years in a row… everybody thought that meant everything that I did was fake and it was all a shtick. This is how it felt to me. That I got found out as this fraud.”

• Jennifer Lawrence

  “I had let myself be hijacked.”

• Jennifer Lawrence

  “I found out that a lot of filmmakers that I really loved and admired had scripts that weren’t even reaching me,”

• Jennifer Lawrence

  “Well, it is, or it was, my genuine personality, but it was also a defense mechanism,”

• Jennifer Lawrence

  “And so it was a defense mechanism, to just be, like, ‘I’m not like that! I poop my pants every day!’ … I look at those interviews, and that person is annoying. I get why seeing that person everywhere would be annoying. Ariana Grande’s impression of me on ‘SNL’ was spot-on.”

• Jennifer Lawrence

  “I just think everybody had gotten sick of me. I’d gotten sick of me. It had just gotten to a point where I couldn’t do anything right. If I walked a red carpet, it was, ‘Why didn’t she run?’”

• Jennifer Lawrence

  “As online trolls like to point out every time I get involved in politics, I didn't go to school, I dropped out of middle school, so I don't have a classic education,”

• Jennifer Lawrence

  “So storytelling is where I get most of my education.”

• Jennifer Lawrence

  “I’m nervous for you. I’m nervous for me. I’m nervous for the readers!”

• Kourtney Kardashian

  “When we lost the baby, we were devastated,”

• Kourtney Kardashian

  “Even before Lemme, wellness had always been such a huge part of my life, and something I’ve always wanted to share in a real way. Having seven kids, perfect, clean living isn’t realistic some of the time. I think a lot of women feel that way,”

• Kourtney Kardashian

  “Supplements can feel intimidating and clinical. That’s why I wanted Lemme to feel the opposite and something that you’re proud to leave on your bedside table,”

• Kourtney Kardashian

  “For the longest time, things like vaginal health and sexual health have had this taboo, which always felt ridiculous to me, given how important they are to a woman’s health,”

• Kourtney Kardashian

  “With Lemme, it was about making wellness feel approachable and doable in real life. Even when I started Poosh, I always felt the same way. It’s not about being perfect. That’s why we started with gummies.”

• Kourtney Kardashian

  “At Lemme, we’ve really tried to normalize those conversations for women and develop products around these important categories like Lemme Purr and Lemme Play.”

• Kourtney Kardashian

  “[Wellness] just is my world,”

• Kourtney Kardashian

  “If you take Kourtney out of Lemme, if you take me out of Lemme, if you take community, our gorgeous, stunning brand [out], the number-one reason Lemme has been successful is because the products deliver the results,”

• Kourtney Kardashian

  “I was ready for something a bit more sophisticated and grown-up than my last house. But above all, it had to be family-friendly,”

• Kourtney Kardashian

  “A lot of the concern, even in our community, is, as you’re losing weight, are you going to lose muscle mass?”

• Kourtney Kardashian

  “Especially during this time, health and wellness are such important things. It’s even more important to take care of yourself.”

• Kourtney Kardashian

  “It’s frustrating to feel like it’s kind of this weird thing to eat organically or things that to me are pretty standard in self-care, so I think now it’s become normal in a way and I’m just happy that it’s catching on.”

• Kourtney Kardashian

  “By the end of every season I’ve had enough, but then once we have had a break I’m ready for more.”

• Kourtney Kardashian

  “I forget that so many people know who I am and have seen me give birth.”

• Kourtney Kardashian

  “I don’t want the show to end, but I sometimes think I would be so happy if it did, and I could just move away from it all,”

• Bono

  “This place saved our musical lives,”

• Bono

  “It’s the sound of four men, who feel like their lives depend on it. I remind them, they do,”

• Bono

  “Nobody needs a new U2 album unless it’s an extraordinary one. I’m feeling very strong about it.”

• Bono

  “songs for the kitchen, songs for the speedway, the garage [and] songs for every part of your life”

• Bono

  “I can pull off the swagger. I can do the macho thing. I’m Irish. I can give you lots of that. But at this point, I just thought it would be better to be closer to who I am when I’m at my most insecure, I suppose.”

• Bono

  “For such a demonstrative performer as I am with U2, (I learned) that just turning your head is enough.”

• Bono

  “The lens will know if you’re lying.”

• Bono

  “The face, after a while, it just is a map. It tells a story of where you’ve been,”

• Bono

  “There’s a sense of undressing yourself in taking off the armor and your sword and your shield and just letting people in,”

• Bono

  “I ended up, as much as loving my father, I ended up liking him,”

• Bono

  “No, so I was in a different part of the class. But I remember that feeling, you know, because I knew I could do this. I know I don't know how to play an instrument, sir! But I have these melodies in my head, and I have words and I have things I want to say.”

• Bono

  “How casually our destiny arrives,”

• Bono

  “There is no single strand to the creative life,”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “At the end of the day, is it too much to ask to bring out the alien? You bring out the alien, then no one will ever have to ask you again: ‘Do you believe in aliens?’ … That’s kind of what I’m waiting for, instead of fuzzy videos.’”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “So you're [going to] have a visiting alien from another planet that has no DNA in common with us at all, or no DNA at all. And somehow it's [going to] walk on two legs with a head, eyes, nose, mouth. So I would be shocked if it was humanoid,”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “I even picture the scenario in my head: I’m sitting out there alone, and a beam of light comes down,”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “If China says we’re going to put military bases on Mars, we’re there in 10 months,”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “We have mapped the moon and Mars to higher precision than the bottom of the ocean.”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “If you’re going to pitch tent on the moon, you want to do it where you have free water,”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “When people look up, they dream more,”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “The promise of economic return. The mandates of your king or the royalty or deity. But the biggest driver of all is the ‘I don’t want to die’ drive.”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “That brought a helicopter with it. If the human is going to do science, they’re going to bring some apparatus to make the measurement. So just send the apparatus, leave the human back.”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “People are now asking questions that are a little more fun, rather than, 'How hot is the sun?' Stuff you can just look up.”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “Everyone that studied the question of life in the universe… would not deny the likelihood of life elsewhere,”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “Without the moon, astronomers would be very happy, because the sky would be dark all the time,”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “Now, you can type anything into Google, into ChatGPT. If you have ever seen those replies that come in from AI, it's got no soul. It's got no personality.”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “I think what matters are your ambitions and then, depending on your resources, you can achieve it slowly or quickly.”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “because I spent some time with your Prime Minister. We chatted briefly during his trip to New York about future of space exploration in India, and he expressed strong interest in bringing private enterprises into that sector. He sees that this will be a natural evolution.”

• Christopher Nolan

  “The fact that we have mutual respect is what, to some extent, defines civilization. I don’t think that’s something that can be entirely imposed by, for example, a religious framework,”

• Christopher Nolan

  “For us, it was just the sheer magnitude of it's 'The Odyssey,' it should be hard. We're going to go out there and we're going to make it as well as we can,”

• Christopher Nolan

  “making films on the big screen is very much an attempt to get back to that experience that I had as a kid.”

• Christopher Nolan

  “So you have to ask the actors on a longer scene to just stay in the emotional state that they're in, however intense that is, and then you quietly reload the camera and keep everybody focused and then start the scene again.”

• Christopher Nolan

  “I make films for audiences, for the theater, for the cinema, and so for me, the movie's really not done until the audience kind of tells me what it is. That's what completes the film. It's exciting, but it's scary,”

• Christopher Nolan

  “He loves trying out new things that he hadn’t done before, same as myself. We like to spend a lot of time in real places, on real locations, having stuff in front of the camera that is tangible and tactile.”

• Christopher Nolan

  “When you shoot on IMAX, you have to think a lot about where you put your camera, because it's so big, it's difficult to move. And you don't have zoom lenses,”

• Christopher Nolan

  “I’ve had an image of that horse sinking into the sand in my head for 20 years.”

• Christopher Nolan

  “When I was briefly attached to direct Troy, I did a lot of thinking about the Trojan Horse and how I would portray that and make it credible,”

• Christopher Nolan

  “after years of driving towards heavily virtual environments, we’re seeing a renewed interest in more tactile, more real forms of storytelling.”

• Christopher Nolan

  “And while that doesn’t mean that every aspect of the technology is useless or meaningless, in filmmaking it’s hitting at exactly the wrong time.”

• Christopher Nolan

  “They see it for what it is very quickly — and it’s much easier for them to identify it, because it grew out of an online world they know really well,”

• Christopher Nolan

  “I always want to feel like I can give them an experience they haven’t had before,”

• Christopher Nolan

  “I re-filmed them off the screen and cut them in, thinking no-one would notice”

• George Pataki

  “It's not about a Republican beating a Democrat or a Democrat beating a Republican,”

• George Pataki

  “One of the most disappointing things since I left office, and certainly since September 11, is the sense of unity we had has fallen apart,”

• George Pataki

  “It's about you being able to make people's lives better.”

• George Pataki

  “This is America. We’ve been through worse times,”

• George Pataki

  “Today, we seem to be as divided as we’ve been in my lifetime.”

• George Pataki

  “Teaching them about government—not about politics, but about government and how you can run things right and appropriately.”

• George Pataki

  “I think the Democrats saw it as a very effective marketing issue—and thought they would never lose the presidency, so they could use the presidency, regardless of the makeup of Congress, for regulation to impose policies that were justified by global warming,”

• George Pataki

  “I’m all for wind, solar, biomass, geothermal sources of energy for the United States and the world, but I do think we’re at the point where they should be required to compete economically without the government favoring one industry or another,”

• George Pataki

  “So I’m not in this to come in second.”

• George Pataki

  “He’s a global celebrity. And who wants to pick a fight with a billionaire?”

• George Pataki

  “We don't have to agree with the decision. I have grave reservations about the deal that appears to be negotiated with Iran, but I don't think Congress independently reaches out to another government to express a different standpoint.”

• George Pataki

  “if I were leading the country, I would say, 'We want to have that server.'”

• George Pataki

  “You work hard, you have the right ideas, you connect with people, you get them to believe in you, and then you win.”

• George Pataki

  “Those casinos are well-regulated, and subject to tremendous law enforcement and other regulatory authorities. It's completely different from just sitting around a college dorm at 1 in the morning and deciding to play online poker or gamble.”

• Sonia Sotomayor

  “This is from a man whose parents were professionals. And probably doesn’t really know any person who works by the hour.”

• Sonia Sotomayor

  “I regret my hurtful comments. I have apologized to my colleague.”

• Sonia Sotomayor

  “At a recent appearance at the University of Kansas School of Law, I referred to a disagreement with one of my colleagues in a prior case, but I made remarks that were inappropriate,”

• Sonia Sotomayor

  “During September 11th, we stopped thinking about race and language and our differences. We all came together as Americans. But more importantly, as human beings suffering a common tragedy. We shouldn't wait for tragedies.”

• Sonia Sotomayor

  “that all Latinos, U.S. citizens or not, who work low-wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents' satisfaction.”

• Sonia Sotomayor

  “There's no secret to it, but there is an art to it. It's an art that was taught to me by my mother, which is if you meet someone that is different than you, try to find your commonalities with them,”

• Sonia Sotomayor

  “Democracy does not survive unless the people in it understand that they are the agents of law, that they're the ones that decide the world they live in,”

• Sonia Sotomayor

  “Every loss truly traumatizes me in my stomach and in my heart.”

• Sonia Sotomayor

  “Sonia, none of us is born a justice. We grow into becoming one.”

• Sonia Sotomayor

  “The life I gave up was the most fun I ever had.”

• Sonia Sotomayor

  “I could be more me. I could go out with friends and not think twice about it.”

• Sonia Sotomayor

  “I have never ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive. And I know one thing: If affirmative action opened the doors for me at Princeton, once I got in, I did the work. I proved myself worthy. So, I don't look at how the door opened.”

• Sonia Sotomayor

  “As much as I know Clarence, admire him and have grown to appreciate him,”

• Anne Wojcicki

  “Part of the reason why we became a nonprofit was to protect the data in perpetuity,”

• Anne Wojcicki

  “We have, in many ways, the same mission and the same business, but it’s 100 percent aligned now with having a scientific impact,”

• Anne Wojcicki

  “I think market cap and reality of a company are always two different realities,”

• Anne Wojcicki

  “I believe in the company. I believe in the long-term mission. But I believe it's essential for us to restructure,”

• Anne Wojcicki

  “At the heart of what 23andMe does…we're about consumer empowerment and research. Okay. So help me navigate because this has never been done before. So I love getting feedback for all those reasons because it has never been done before,”

• Anne Wojcicki

  “We're doing all kinds of things for the first time. So we will make mistakes. 100% admit all of that. But…my commitment to the world has always been I will always learn from my mistakes. I will make them, and I will learn from them, and we will be better going forward.”

• Anne Wojcicki

  “We absolutely are in a situation where we're figuring out cash burn and we're looking at all the ways that we're gonna drive revenue growth.”

• Anne Wojcicki

  “From day one, it was set up to be a database you could leverage for research,”

• Anne Wojcicki

  “The No. 1 reward I can imagine is, at some point, we have a therapy that benefits our customers,”

• Anne Wojcicki

  “Her relatives finally said, ‘enough! The only way to stop you is to move to Siberia,’”

• Anne Wojcicki

  “You have genes and you have environment,”

• Anne Wojcicki

  “One of our biggest competitors in this space of science is Goop health and Gwyneth Paltrow because she has such pull,”

• Anne Wojcicki

  “And it has real consequences on their life. And so we’re messing with people’s identity. And it’s really important that we take that seriously.”

• Anne Wojcicki

  “You tell someone that they’re a carrier for BRCA, or you tell someone, ‘You’re a high risk for blood clots.’ Or you tell someone that you’re one-64th Native American,”

• Alec Baldwin

  “He’s not that interesting. Someone was reviewing people’s Trump impersonations, past and present, and they said that Alec Baldwin was a mean and nasty Trump, and I’m like, great, that’s what I wanted. I wanted to play Trump as just a horrible person.”

• Alec Baldwin

  “I’ve lived in New York my whole adult life and Trump was the guy with a tuxedo in the glove compartment,”

• Alec Baldwin

  “I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them, never,”

• Alec Baldwin

  “She was someone who was loved by everyone who worked with [her] and liked by everyone who worked with [her], and admired... I mean, even now I find it hard to believe that [she's gone]. It doesn't seem real to me.”

• Alec Baldwin

  “Someone put a live bullet in a gun, a bullet that wasn't even supposed to be on the property,”

• Alec Baldwin

  “I hit a big, fat tree. And crushed my car -- my wife's car. I crashed my wife's car. I feel bad about that. But it's all fine, and I'm fine and my brother's fine.”

• Alec Baldwin

  “I think that John was a narcissistic and overreaching Type A guy,”

• Alec Baldwin

  “He had an enormously successful career at GM. He could have stayed that course and probably run the company. But John just had a contrarian streak in him — and his ego as well — he just found it very difficult to work for other people.”

• Alec Baldwin

  “It's a scab that never heals, 'cause it's being picked at all the time by other people. And ... I think my daughter, that's hurt her in a permanent way.”

• Alec Baldwin

  “I'm glad I got it when I did, 'cause not many people get sober when they're young. I got sober when I was just about to turn 27. And those two years that I lived in that white hot period as a daily drug abuser, as a daily drinker ... to my misery — boy, that was a tough time.”

• Alec Baldwin

  “They wanted to be happy and they were crushed by debt and money ... and that really drove me nuts.”

• Alec Baldwin

  “Ford, in person, is a little man, short, scrawny and wiry,”

• Alec Baldwin

  “I just was obsessed with work and making money 'cause of my dad,”

• Alec Baldwin

  “I’m like the greatest actor who ever lived since I came in here. I’m like Anthony Hopkins, Richard Burton and John Gielgud rolled into one.”

• Charlie Cox

  “Once we got into production, it very quickly became apparent that the lessons we’d learnt from the [Ben Affleck] movie that we had got right in the show, we were now almost unlearning a little bit,”

• Charlie Cox

  “and that the character really does work best in a serialized platform, but also when it’s darker and grittier and there’s less tongue-in-cheek levity.”

• Charlie Cox

  “It was like, Okay, this is a big challenge. It’s shocking. I think at that point I thought maybe that would be the final season,”

• Charlie Cox

  “Honestly, I still am pinching myself. It’s still bonkers to me that I’m still making this show, and that I’m still able to play this character,”

• Charlie Cox

  “It’d be so cool to kind of have some kind of crossover with all of the Avengers, with Spider-Man as Daredevil, rather than as Matt Murdock, all of that kind of stuff.”

• Charlie Cox

  “Sometimes with the challenges that come with being a father and a parent, being right-sized in a moment that's very challenging feels like a huge victory,”

• Charlie Cox

  “I loved being part of Expedition 33, I was blown away by the success it's had and how far-reaching that game has been,”

• Charlie Cox

  “My son thinks I’m a superhero,”

• Charlie Cox

  “I FaceTime with him when I’m in the full [costume], which is quite sweet. And the look on his face, his eyes just wide.”

• Charlie Cox

  “I had said to them, ‘I’m getting ready to play Daredevil,’ ’cause I am! I’m getting ready to play Daredevil in season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again.”

• Charlie Cox

  “I was genuinely concerned that we were suffering from ego, because the show has kind of become famous for these fight sequences that take place in one shot, and it’s almost like a burden, or a pressure that I didn’t want.”

• Charlie Cox

  “The truth is, I didn’t think it was achievable,”

• Zac Efron

  “I hadn’t talked about that experience with anyone. After spending 10 minutes with John, I realized that probably nobody knows more about what I’ve just been through in that experience than this guy right here.”

• Zac Efron

  “In the best way possible, I did not look anything like me. It was jarring at first, but we kind of put it together piece by piece,”

• Zac Efron

  “For that I'm just eternally grateful. I still think about it every day -- I sing the songs in the shower.”

• Zac Efron

  “It was shocking at every point of the transformation,”

• Zac Efron

  “I remember Harris [Dickinson] and I were walking out of hair and make-up and it was like the first time we had to wear the full kit, and we were both thinking, 'What the hell are we doing here, man? How did we get into this?'”

• Zac Efron

  “The physicality he brought to the ring every single day was really unique. It changed wrestling,”

• Zac Efron

  “He told me he was happy with it last night, so I'm stoked! I cried a little bit, if I'm going to be completely honest.”

• Zac Efron

  “This movie's a true story, and that man, Kevin Von Erich right there, he really motivated me to get in shape for this movie,”

• Zac Efron

  “Stephen King is a hero of mine — I think that he creates fascinating worlds,”

• Zac Efron

  “A movie that could have been procedural and boring now explores a brand-new perspective, and is told through the eyes of Liz, the girl closest to Ted.”

• Andrew Barth Feldman

  “I am so in love with this show and with Helen J Shen,”

• Andrew Barth Feldman

  “I didn't feel like I was making a movie with Jennifer Lawrence,”

• Andrew Barth Feldman

  “I’m not the guy to go to about Gen-Z pop culture – I’m not even on TikTok – but I do know that Splash Mountain is becoming Tiana’s Bayou Adventure.”

• Andrew Barth Feldman

  “What I’m most excited for people to see and hear from me in the years coming is the stories that can be told with music,”

• Andrew Barth Feldman

  “But I live out loud more than Percy does. I’ve had this beating heart full of anxiety, but I never let it consume me.”

• Andrew Barth Feldman

  “And I learned that the best way to go after a role is to be yourself — if being yourself doesn’t work, you’re not right for the role.”

• Andrew Barth Feldman

  “Let the, you know, the Jennifer Lawrence of it all -- she lets it fade into the background so much. She's a person first, she's a mother first, she's a friend first and that was a huge, huge thing to learn.”

• Andrew Barth Feldman

  “It was truly right away. I think there was just something very kindred between the two of us, and day one we were just like oversharing, telling each other our deepest darkest secrets,”

• Andrew Barth Feldman

  “I mean, when Andrew left his audition, the door closed and we all looked at each other and we were like, 'That's our -- that's Percy,' and then they were like there's one complication, he's supposed to go to Harvard, and we were like, 'Is that a joke?'”

• Andrew Barth Feldman

  “Kamala Harris could be Heidi and Marianne Williamson as Cynthia.”

• Andrew Barth Feldman

  “One of the things I do before the show is I'll have a conversation with Evan in the mirror,”

• Andrew Barth Feldman

  “People want to know what's going on backstage at a Broadway show and whether Smash is accurate or not , it's still fun. I know a Bombshell musical is still on the table, they can cast me as Megan Hilty because I'm Team Ivy. She worked harder for it, and that's my hot take.”

• Andrew Barth Feldman

  “There were all these people [from ‘Dear Evan Hansen’] that saw me perform and win the Jimmy Awards, so they emailed me to come in and audition, and I did, and the rest was history.”

• Dolly Parton

  “Because I’ve always tried to stay true to me. And always, when people ask me for advice, that’s kind of what I tell them.”

• Dolly Parton

  “There are some people just born beautiful, and then if they add more stuff, they're just more beautiful. But then there are people, like me, that you just try to make the most of what you got,”

• Dolly Parton

  “Find out who you are and do it on purpose. And do it with purpose,”

• Dolly Parton

  “My hair, I used to try to tease it to make it all it was, and with the bleach and all that, I thought, ‘Well, I’m gonna start wearing wigs,’”

• Dolly Parton

  “I'm not tall. I'm never going to be like a supermodel, so I like to wear my high heels.”

• Dolly Parton

  “To thine own self be true.”

• Dolly Parton

  “We just dream and think, what do we want? We don't want things that’s just going to last a season or two…we want things to be lasting.”

• Dolly Parton

  “It just does my heart good to see that Dollywood has done so well. And after 40 years, it just gets better and better and better,”

• Dolly Parton

  “I would love to just close the park down, just bring my family and friends and have a big old party,”

• Dolly Parton

  “it just brought so many more tourists in, and other people started building other businesses and hotels and all that. There were some things here, but not near like it was after Dollywood opened.”

• Dolly Parton

  “People in this area are just great people, period. They're just good people. And then you put them on a park to welcome guests, you feel that. You feel that they really mean it when they say, ‘Well, welcome (to Dollywood)’,”

• Dolly Parton

  “You want every experience they have to be a memory worth repeating.”

• Dolly Parton

  “I loved bright colors, and I still do. Through the years, I just wore what I felt matched my personality.”

• Emma Stone

  “Not only was it in competition, but I actually adopted a stage name for, I would say, like six months. Because the Screen Actors Guild, it’s like the Business Bureau. You can only have one person with that name,”

• Emma Stone

  “I was 16, and I decided I wanted to be Riley for like six months. So I was Riley Stone, which is a beautiful name,”

• Emma Stone

  “I did an episode, like a guest part, on Malcolm in the Middle, and they kept going like, ‘Riley! Riley!’ And I had no idea who they were talking to. Truly. And I was like, ‘I cannot be Riley,'”

• Emma Stone

  “He was completely safe and did an incredible job. I broke no bones,”

• Emma Stone

  “I don’t think there’s going to be a moment in here where I’m full of regret,”

• Emma Stone

  “I remember it being nine countries in two weeks…you're functioning at a state of jet lag never previously known to you. I felt truly psychotic at this time. I’m half dead in this photo, but I love the look.”

• Emma Stone

  “Well waffles are my favorite food, so you got got,”

• Emma Stone

  “What’s the point? Every time period of your life is different.”

• Emma Stone

  “Whatever he does is special and surprising and exquisite,”

• Emma Stone

  “It feels like I always get to have a piece of him with me.”

• Emma Stone

  “Rehearsal is a little bit of mixed bag for me sometimes. Sometimes I really really enjoy it and sometimes I’m like, ‘Oh God we’re just doing it and it’s going to ruin everything,’ but this was one of the good ones.”

• Emma Stone

  “All my friends still call me Emily.”

• Eric Adams

  “I refused to stand down when hundreds of thousands of people were coming to the city without any economic support.”

• Eric Adams

  “So I’m looking to get my citizenship in Ghana, in Gambia, in Uzbekistan, from other countries as well.”

• Eric Adams

  “a choice between real progress and empty promises.”

• Eric Adams

  “This election is a choice between those who believe in this city and those who don't,”

• Eric Adams

  “Let me tell you something, this is a city not of socialism,”

• Eric Adams

  “I've been to socialist countries. This is a city where you can come as a dishwasher, and you can own a chain of restaurants. This is a city where you could be a cab driver and then become a doctor. This is a city where you could go from homelessness to building housing.”

• Eric Adams

  “Safe Street, Affordable City”

• Eric Adams

  “They're running from their record. I'm running on mine.”

• Eric Adams

  “I didn't change my party. But I'm running on an independent line — and for me, it's all about what New Yorkers care about: safety and affordability.”

• Eric Adams

  “It's Cuomo and the seven Socialists,”

• Eric Adams

  “After years of praying and hoping and struggling and working, we are headed to City Hall.”

• Eric Adams

  “Tonight, New York has chosen one of you -- one of our own. I am you. I am you,”

• Lionel Messi

  “We'll try to put on a good match, but I hope he and his team don't put on a good one,”

• Lionel Messi

  “I have never been a believer or thought that anything was destined to occur, but I am beginning to have my doubts. This is beyond all reasonable explanations,”

• Lionel Messi

  “but I hope he [Yamal] and his team don’t put on a good one.”

• Lionel Messi

  “I’ve followed him a lot because he plays for a club I love so much. He has a chance to achieve something historic. We’re going to try to make sure that doesn’t happen this time.”

• Lionel Messi

  “Messi also credited Argentina's fighting spirit, saying the squad's refusal to give up had once again carried them through a difficult situation.”

• Lionel Messi

  “It was a moment of pure happiness and relief; we wanted to stay in the tournament. We didn't want today to be the end, we didn't want to go home.”

• Lionel Messi

  “Turning a match around like that – coming back from 2-0 down – it wasn't easy, especially given how this World Cup is playing out and the fact that no-one is just rolling over,”

• Lionel Messi

  “Well, obviously as you get older, you lose things that you had when you were younger — things like speed, reaction time, or seeing the game faster, making decisions,”

• Lionel Messi

  “We’re coming off winning the last World Cup, and being able to defend it on the field again is spectacular because it’s always a dream to play with the national team, especially in official competitions, so hopefully God will allow me to do it once again.”

• Lionel Messi

  “Sometimes your mind is faster than your legs. But I think I always tried to overcome those things and keep trying to be at my best and get the most out of my physical abilities, my game, and I tried to adapt to the new circumstances.”

• Lionel Messi

  “Every team should have the opportunity to bring in players and sign whoever each team wants without limitations or rules for players to bring them in,”

• Lionel Messi

  “And I would like to be there. To feel well and to be an important part of helping my national team, if I am there. And I’m going to assess that on a day-to-day basis when I start preseason next year with Inter and see if I can really be 100%.”

• C.C. Wei

  “If you take the yolk out of an egg, what's left?”

• C.C. Wei

  “Employee profit sharing increased by about 30% from 2023 to 2024 and again by about 30% from 2024 to 2025,”

• C.C. Wei

  “We won’t raise prices like memory chips – all of a sudden 400% hikes in the short term,”

• C.C. Wei

  “Now Intel is still one of our top 10 customers. We want to earn money from them and also would continue to protect our own intellectual properties and trade secrets.”

• C.C. Wei

  “The explosive growth of the AI industry has left the entire supply and ecosystem unprepared and unable to cope,”

• C.C. Wei

  “That is not something South Korea can easily replicate [overnight],”

• C.C. Wei

  “We are trying not to become the bottleneck. Supply is a little bit tight as customer demand has outstripped what we can supply,”

• C.C. Wei

  “It is humbling to receive SIA’s Noyce Award and to follow in the footsteps of so many industry visionaries, including TSMC Founder Dr. Morris Chang,”

• C.C. Wei

  “I was not allowed to give a speech without going through my legal department…I don’t make a public comment on China,”

• C.C. Wei

  “TSMC does not develop any technology only for certain products or certain industries.”

• C.C. Wei

  “Export controls and banning products from other foreign countries destroy productivity and efficiency gained under globalization, or at least they reduce benefits offered by a free market,”

• C.C. Wei

  “But the scariest thing is that mutual trust and cooperation among countries is beginning to weaken,”

• Jay-Z

  “We love the excitement and the sparring, but in this day and age there’s so much negative stuff that comes with it that you almost wish it didn’t happen,”

• Jay-Z

  “I took that really hard. And I knew that we was going to walk through that because, first of all, it's not true. And the truth, at the end of the day, still reigns supreme.”

• Jay-Z

  “Why would I sell out? I'm already rich, don't make no sense / Got more money than Goodell, a whole NFL bench.”

• Jay-Z

  “I was heartbroken. I’m glad we got right to that so we could get that out the way. I was really heartbroken by everything that occurred. We’re in a space now where consequence is not thought about enough, because everything is so instant.”

• Jay-Z

  “Black people, for sure. I don’t think that the world has to agree with everything I do.”

• Jay-Z

  “So, the things that we care about — ‘But it’s the right cultural thing!’ — they’re like: ‘I don’t even know what you’re talking about. I have no idea what that means.’”

• Jay-Z

  “I chose the guy who was having a monster year. It was the right choice. What do I care about those two guys battling? What’s that got to do with me? Have at it. People drag everyone into it, like there’s some conspiracy to undermine Drake. It’s like, what the fuck? I’m Jay-Z!”

• Jay-Z

  “You got all that in the music for $10.99. Take the $500,000, go buy some albums and listen to the albums.”

• Jay-Z

  “Everything I said was going to happen, happened. Everything I said I wanted to do, I've done. There's the blueprint”

• Jay-Z

  “The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need,”

• Jay-Z

  “It's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.”

• Jay-Z

  “But actually, in last year's American election, Jay-Z voted Democrat.”

• Kevin Hart

  “I wasn’t shocked. That’s what they do. Go look at [The Roast of] Tom Brady, like, that’s what they do. It happens every year when they do a roast. It’s not new.”

• Kevin Hart

  “Pete [Davidson] had a great set, too. Pete had a Charlie Kirk joke in it. Like, would I tell those jokes? No. But do I get why they’re being told? Yes. I’m not looking at Pete crazy. I’m not looking at Tony. That’s what I know what you’re going to do. I know your style of comedy.”

• Kevin Hart

  “Whatever the dialogue is, my rebuttal is simplicity. Remove me from it. I didn’t say it. If you are upset that the night went on, that’s a different conversation. It’s nothing I could do. It’s a production,”

• Kevin Hart

  “This partnership is about acceleration, growth and diversification. I’ve spent years building businesses and creating opportunities, and joining Authentic gives me the platform and global infrastructure to take my brand to the next level,”

• Kevin Hart

  “Becoming a shareholder allows me to co-own some of the most recognizable IP of all time while building my own brand legacy. I want the Hart name to live on for generations to come and be something that my grandkids and their grandkids will be able to be proud of.”

• Kevin Hart

  “Comedy will always be in our DNA. But it’s not just comedy. Going forward, you’re going see a lot more of us leaning into cultural, broad-audience shows that reflect the premium nature of the stories we want to tell.”

• Kevin Hart

  “Careerwise, I’m pretty happy with what I have achieved, but that star getting brighter isn’t an option,”

• Kevin Hart

  “There’s been times where we have looked at each other and we balled our papers up and said, ‘We gotta start over, we gotta start over.’ Not because of jealousy or envy? Because we challenge each other. We want the best for not only each other, but for ourselves.”

• Kevin Hart

  “The biggest drug. It’s not cocaine, it’s not heroin, it’s fame. Anything you want, everything you want, it’s a thing,”

• Kevin Hart

  “And if you can’t handle this thing, the consequences attached are severe. Do you know you? And are you okay with you? If you are not, it’ll break you.”

• Kevin Hart

  “That’s a Monster That You’re Feeding”

• Serena Williams

  “It's nothing too new, and at the same time it's everything new. Change is good.”

• Serena Williams

  “I thought I should really take this opportunity. Who knows if I'll ever make it here again. This could be it,”

• Serena Williams

  “I think in general, my expectations are definitely different for the first time in my career. And I feel like my feelings are just, not that I never enjoyed it before or else I wouldn't be here today, but I feel like I'm really going to enjoy being out there.”

• Serena Williams

  “I had my opportunity, and I'm very happy with where I am.”

• Serena Williams

  “So I think it was on, I had until Monday to decide. I think it was like Sunday. I just wasn’t sure up until then,”

• Serena Williams

  “People live to be an athlete. I have this great opportunity to showcase what I do, what I do best, I suppose. Yeah, I think ultimately I was like that is pretty cool, so I should do it.”

• Serena Williams

  “I was like, ‘What’s wrong with me, Serena? What are you thinking? Are you nuts? Like you really should do this,’”

• Serena Williams

  “I expect to be nervous. I was also nervous every single match I ever played in my life,”

• Serena Williams

  “That's a question I can't answer. Who knows? Who knows where I'll pop up?”

• Serena Williams

  “You think I'm ready for singles? I need to get to work.”

• Serena Williams

  “I was really motivated by what Venus was doing at US Open, I thought she played really well. Quarterfinals in doubles, I thought was really interesting,”

• Serena Williams

  “I don’t have anything to lose, and everything here is just to gain … This whole journey is like, I’m putting no pressure on myself.”

• Serena Williams

  “I can’t say no right now, I feel like I probably need to train a little bit more if I want to play singles, and we will see if I get there, and if not… that’s not my journey right now,”

• Larry Ellison

  “For these models to reach their peak value, you need to train them not just on publicly available data, but make privately owned data available for those models as well,”

• Larry Ellison

  “AI changes everything. That’s saying a lot, but it is close,”

• Larry Ellison

  “The great opportunity is the use of these remarkable electronic brains to solve society’s most-enduring problems… We will live better lives through better health care, homes, productivity at work.”

• Larry Ellison

  “There are a lot of brilliant, really brilliant scientists in our business. Bill, forgive me, there are a lot of people in the world smarter than Bill Gates. There are very few people in the world that have his focus and endurance.”

• Larry Ellison

  “Today, 18 months later, I think it’s very, very clear: AI is a much bigger deal than the Industrial Revolution, electricity, and everything that’s come before,”

• Larry Ellison

  “The secret is to get all that data in one place. Without having the basic data, the AI model doesn’t have the context and cannot answer the [specific] questions about your country.”

• Larry Ellison

  “We will soon have not only artificial intelligence but also — much sooner than anticipated —artificial general intelligence and then, in the not-too-distant future, artificial superintelligence.”

• Larry Ellison

  “I can go on and on, but AI will fundamentally change our lives in medicine, agriculture, and robotics across the board.”

• Larry Ellison

  “And we’re short. We are expanding as fast as we can. It’s really interesting. It’s an exciting opportunity. But it’s challenging when there’s more demand than supply.”

• Larry Ellison

  “There’s actually more demand for AI processing than there is available capacity,”

• Larry Ellison

  “People talk about ChatGPT being really cool because it can write my high-school essay for me,”

• Larry Ellison

  “The other guys can’t do that … can’t do it dynamically.”

• Larry Ellison

  “They run their workload and the moment their workload is through running, we can reallocate that cluster or break that cluster up and allocate it to other users,”

• Larry Ellison

  “Well, how about reducing hospital readmissions at MD Anderson by 30 percent? You decide which is more important. … And GPT is very cool. There are other applications other than generative language in these large language models.”

• Bernie Sanders

  “My message to Democratic leaders: Ban super PACs from Democratic primaries NOW.”

• Bernie Sanders

  “Right now, the Democratic Party has the power to prohibit super PACs from participating in its primaries. That can be done. That must be done,”

• Bernie Sanders

  “it will have to be the American people who say ‘no’ to authoritarianism”

• Bernie Sanders

  “People are worried that right now, many young people, teenagers, are relying on companionship from AI rather than fellow human beings,”

• Bernie Sanders

  “Right now, politicians — at least sometimes — have to worry about loss of life when they decide to go to war. If you don’t have to worry about loss of life, and what you worry about is loss of robots, what does that mean for issues of war and peace globally? It’s a big issue.”

• Bernie Sanders

  “The top 1% of Americans own more wealth than the bottom 93%,”

• Bernie Sanders

  “I think we are not all that far away from the development of robotic soldiers,”

• Bernie Sanders

  “Today, before we have seen the full implications of robotics and AI, you’re looking at unprecedented wealth and income concentration,”

• Bernie Sanders

  “Musk recently said that ‘AI and robots will replace all jobs. Working will be optional.’”

• Bernie Sanders

  “People who know a lot more than I do about this, people like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Dario Amodei, they are talking about massive, massive job dislocation,”

• Bernie Sanders

  “What we have now is a terrible situation, and Republicans are making it worse. Well, what are you going to do? If Republicans are doing it, you have to respond. It’s pathetic, but I think you have to respond,”

• Bernie Sanders

  “I think support for this right-wing agenda, which is not only about authoritarianism and oligarchy, it is about a proposal which will give over, if passed, over $1 trillion in tax breaks to the top 1% and allow for massive cuts to Medicaid, nutrition, housing and other programs,”

• Bernie Sanders

  “The idea of a third term? Why not? They don't believe in the rule of law. They don't believe in the Constitution. So, yeah, I would take that seriously.”

• Bernie Sanders

  “They do. Because for them, you know, they're zillion-dollar law firms, and money, money, money. So, they're gonna sell out their souls to Donald Trump in order to continue to be able to make money here in Washington.”

• Drew Houston

  “Whenever there's a new technology, people extrapolate very quickly,”

• Drew Houston

  “It really felt like something only I was super interested in as far as file syncing, and focusing on one customer, which was myself.”

• Drew Houston

  “They just totally nuked our business model ... [It was] even worse because it was so easily anticipated,”

• Drew Houston

  “Steve Jobs was on stage in 2011 announcing iCloud, calling out Dropbox by name as something that will be viewed as archaic. And similarly, we always felt like we were in the shadow of the hammer of Google launching Google Drive.”

• Drew Houston

  “Every time you move up a league, your reward is a stronger and better opponent and potentially a more unlevel playing field,”

• Drew Houston

  “So this became a very public and personal embarrassment for me. How could we not have predicted that, or been out in front of that?”

• Drew Houston

  “The key question is: How do we retain all the things that are great about working remotely, but bring back the things that are good about the in-person experience?”

• Drew Houston

  “When you think more broadly about the effects of the shift to distributed work, it will be felt well beyond when we go back to the office. So we’ve gone through a one-way door. This is maybe one of the biggest changes to knowledge work since that term was invented in 1959,”

• Drew Houston

  “I never wanted to have the problem again, so having nothing else to do... I started writing some code [to find a solution], having no idea what it would become.”

• Drew Houston

  “It was like getting an email from the dean of admissions to your favourite college, but the application deadline was in the next couple of weeks, and you need to get married in that time, not just find a date,”

• Drew Houston

  “We met in the student centre for an hour or two, then Arash dropped out of school the next week.”

• Drew Houston

  “This is an acquired skill set, and, furthermore, it's one that you learn on the job. So everyone is a first-time CEO by definition at some point.”

• Andrew Garfield

  “clearly on the side of the angels, against intolerance and bigotry,”

• Andrew Garfield

  “Daniel is so goddamn good. Honestly, I hadn’t watched the ‘Harry Potter’ movies until recently,”

• Andrew Garfield

  “I’ve not really played a part that has the darkness this person has.”

• Andrew Garfield

  “I’ve been very, very gun-shy around other films that deal with the same world,”

• Andrew Garfield

  “’Oh fuck. I can’t actually see the fucking teleprompter. Did I bring my — [glasses]? Yes, they’re in my right hand. Put the glasses on. OK, great, now I can see,’”

• Andrew Garfield

  “And then, everyone thinks I’m trying to be sexy. But in truth, neurosis is, I guess, kinda sexy ultimately.”

• Andrew Garfield

  “Maybe that’s too strong a word — call it ending and restarting. A midlife crisis happens when people are reluctant to stop being young, and I’ve just accepted it,”

• Andrew Garfield

  “I woke up and I was like, I don't want to move. What is going on? Am I sick? And I hadn't connected it. I hadn't thought about the emotional rawness of the previous day at all.”

• Andrew Garfield

  “she was more concerned with the nurses than she was with her own pain and discomfort.”

• Andrew Garfield

  “So in terms of my own personal experience, yeah, it felt like a very simple act of healing for myself, and hopefully healing for an audience.”

• Andrew Garfield

  “Why the fuck am I doing this?”

• Andrew Garfield

  “I know that I’m an actor and it’s part of the job, and I feel lucky I get to do that, but with the interviews, it’s such a weird thing. What do I have to say?”

• Daniel Ek

  “But what we can say with great certainty … it’s very important … that we shouldn’t have to rely on anyone else to defend ourselves.”

• Daniel Ek

  “We’re at a crossroads for the kind of future we want to build”

• Daniel Ek

  “Big challenges often appear impossible until someone decides to tackle them,”

• Daniel Ek

  “At Spotify, we started with what felt like an impossible idea. Nearly 20 years later, that idea is used by almost three-quarters of a billion people around the world ... What once looked unreasonable is now obvious.”

• Daniel Ek

  “It's been an honor of a lifetime for me to be able to lead Spotify for close to 20 years,”

• Daniel Ek

  “It’s a company that builds companies,”

• Daniel Ek

  “I’ve spent twenty years, nearly my entire adult life, as Spotify’s CEO,”

• Daniel Ek

  “I’m ready to go from a player to a coach.”

• Daniel Ek

  “They’re more than capable and more than ready to take it on. And in many ways, they are way better at leading this company than I ever was, as a combination.”

• Daniel Ek

  “I’m going to be involved in the long arc of the company, the big strategy decisions, the big capital allocation decisions. But to be brutally clear, so that there’s no doubt, they are going to run the company, they are the CEOs, they’ll make the decisions.”

• Daniel Ek

  “We are trying to do things traditional VCs aren’t set up to do—industries where investors can’t go or where the timeline doesn’t make sense.”

• Daniel Ek

  “Our challenge was: how do we get the benefit of their amazing execution but still remain founder-led?”

• Daniel Ek

  “I always believed that Spotify could play an important role in revolutionizing listening around the world, and with more than 700 million users, we’ve truly charted a new course bringing creativity to every corner of the globe,”

• Dawn Song

  “We want to innovate. We want to actually make the world a better place. But we can only do that if we can ensure the safety and security of the AI systems we are building and deploying.”

• Dawn Song

  “With secure multi-party computation, any hacker would need to simultaneously compromise many different entities at once to steal the data,”

• Dawn Song

  “It’s all about a responsible data economy,”

• Dawn Song

  “I loved that physics is the language of nature,”

• Dawn Song

  “It was a really early time in the field, and the community was very small, but I liked the interdisciplinary nature of the field of computer security,”

• Dawn Song

  “I’m a very curiosity-driven person who loves to explore uncharted domains,”

• Dawn Song

  “How can we help users maintain control of their data and at the same time let the data be used in a privacy-preserving way that is for the betterment of both society and individuals?”

• Dawn Song

  “This is the kind of dataset, on hundreds of thousands of people, that you really don’t want to become compromised,”

• Dawn Song

  “Privacy is absolutely missing and is absolutely essential. With Oasis’ new technology of Sapphire, this confidential EVM, we really hope that this can be a gamechanger for that.”

• Dawn Song

  “The whole point of blockchain in a permissionless setting is to have a distributed protocol and entities coming together to reach consensus,”

• Dawn Song

  “There is a real need in the real world. We are at an inflection point. The Internet has changed everybody's life -- for the most part for the better -- but we face many challenges, particularly around the question of who has control of data and how data should be utilised,”

• Dawn Song

  “Without enforcement of [data property rights], anyone can take data and derive value from it without attributing value back to the original owners,”

• Elena Kagan

  “What we can decide, we can undecide. But stare decisis teaches that we should exercise that authority sparingly.”

• Elena Kagan

  “Rarely, if ever has the Court overruled a decision—let alone one of this import—with so little regard for the usual principles of stare decisis.”

• Elena Kagan

  “Well, that didn’t take long. Now one may wonder yet again.”

• Elena Kagan

  “It is a court. It speaks best when it speaks as a court, rather than a place when nine people get together and write individually.”

• Elena Kagan

  “Courts are supposed to explain things, to litigants, to the public generally,”

• Elena Kagan

  “I don’t enjoy that. I find it frustrating.I find it disappointing. I find it sometimes maddening.”

• Elena Kagan

  “A casual observer might think we said the president has the authority to dismantle [the agency]…. That [question] wasn’t even before us,”

• Elena Kagan

  “As we have done more and more on the emergency docket, there becomes a real responsibility to explain things better.”

• Elena Kagan

  “would, I think, go far in persuading other people that we were adhering to the highest standards of conduct.”

• Elena Kagan

  “I didn’t really pull [any] punches about the importance that I thought that decision had about our political system and the way we govern ourselves… There, you’re not writing the dissent because you just thought you saw the thing differently and you think everybody should know that there were two sides to this issue. You are writing the dissent because you want to convince the future. You want to convince the present, too, but for all those people out there who in some way can carry on the efforts against this kind of undermining of democracy, go for it… Maybe the Court will change its mind…maybe it won’t.”

• Elena Kagan

  “At the same time, he had a real passion for justice…,”

• Elena Kagan

  “was a brilliant lawyer in the technical and craft aspect of the job,”

• Elena Kagan

  “Somebody said that Justice Jackson served on the Court for barely longer than I have now, and it made me feel so deflated,”

• Elena Kagan

  “This is a long process. It's a process that in no country is over. We can all improve,”

• Elizabeth Holmes

  “It’s been hell and torture to be here,”

• Elizabeth Holmes

  “Bill has never met her. Like he said, we looked at them earlier and decided not to go forward based on the information we saw in the outside world and the tests we did,”

• Elizabeth Holmes

  “If he just wants to talk badly about us he’s free to talk badly about us. It’s a free country.”

• Elizabeth Holmes

  “When we use venous draws we use commercially available machines. When we do finger pricks that is proprietary technology not available.”

• Elizabeth Holmes

  “never seen The Wall Street Journal as a tabloid magazine.”

• Elizabeth Holmes

  “It’s not that we don’t want to go that route. It’s that if you are doing 120 FDA submissions at the same time you don’t have time to sleep,”

• Elizabeth Holmes

  “But we are doing things differently and we are working to make a difference and that means people raise questions, and that's okay,”

• Elizabeth Holmes

  “This is what happens when you work to change things, and first they think you're crazy, then they fight you and then all of a sudden you change the world,”

• Elizabeth Holmes

  “We're not going to be bought,”

• Elizabeth Holmes

  “my question is always, ‘Why?’ Because there’s got to be a mission—there’s got to be a reason you’re doing it so that no matter how hard it is, you want to keep doing it over and over and over again, because you love it.”

• Elizabeth Holmes

  “We will fail over a thousand times till we get this thing to work, but we will get it on the 1001 st time.”

• Josh Safdie

  “It’s a shared psychiatric experience where a thought can lead to a recollection of something from the past — something neither of us has thought of since the day it happened — and then we’ll give the floor for that person to ruminate on it, which will lead to an idea,”

• Josh Safdie

  “One person may think that it’s a good idea, and then it’s time for it to be interrogated in such an intense way that sometimes you forget that you’re fighting for it. You’re trying to find the weaknesses, almost like it’s a courtroom.”

• Josh Safdie

  “In my past films, I had the luxury of being able to just step out and steal shots in the streets,”

• Josh Safdie

  “I can’t live with the idea of things not feeling like I’m stealing them.”

• Josh Safdie

  “I told Ronnie [Bronstein], my co-writer, ‘I think I want to be an architect. I don’t know if I want to do this anymore,’”

• Josh Safdie

  “Ronnie and I were working together every day. There was no vaccine. It was a scary time. We’d sit in our office — in the beginning sat 10 feet apart — talking about our lives and we would wonder why we were thinking about them in the context of these characters,”

• Josh Safdie

  “I sent him a video of a player playing, set to Peter Gabriel’s ‘I Have The Touch’. That was the energy I wanted. I said, ‘I want to do period, but with this timeless feeling.’”

• Josh Safdie

  “All these misfits, guys with high IQs who did terribly at school or were dropouts; super serious dreamers who would bet on who could throw a peach pit higher on Broadway and 52nd Street,”

• Josh Safdie

  “No one in this film is spared from humility. This film is about control and no one has control of their own lives. They’re all being led by this invisible force. And I think that makes the characters malleable in a sense of relatability.”

• Josh Safdie

  “In the casting process you’re looking to align the character with the essence of that person. Kevin is the epitome of the American dream. He’s almost the performative sense of the American dream. He represents cold, corporate, cruel capitalism,”

• Josh Safdie

  “I showed it to Timmy because he and I were talking at the very beginning of all of this. I said to him, ‘I want to do a movie in this world. Check out what this player looks like.’ He’s like, ‘Holy shit, that looks like me.’”

• Josh Safdie

  “I had been like, ‘Wow, this guy’s trying to be this big actor, showing up at this party tripping on acid.’ But he played it so well — I believed it. It was really good acting. And so I was like, ‘OK, this is a weird dude.’”

• Reid Hoffman

  “One of the things I realized over the last month was that, we’re seeing such progress with Manas. I need to get back to founder mode,”

• Reid Hoffman

  “And so you don’t want to be saying, ‘Hey, as opposed to being the England of the Industrial Revolution, we’re going to be the Poland of the Industrial Revolution.’”

• Reid Hoffman

  “Like if you do the analysis of rising electricity costs, it has no correlation with the data centers, or even what is relatively modest AI usage so far. And yet all blame for increasing electricity prices today is AI.”

• Reid Hoffman

  “I obviously feel enormously bad that it took me a few years to understand kind of what the monstrosity was,”

• Reid Hoffman

  “Just about everything is going to be blamed on AI,”

• Reid Hoffman

  “The talent race to your average American looks crazy. The amount of money you're paying individuals in order to do this,”

• Reid Hoffman

  “The fact that universities have not changed, and it's like, 'Well, but I already have my curriculum, and this is the way I've been teaching it for the last X decades,' etc.”

• Reid Hoffman

  “Wishing for the 1950s past is a bad mistake,”

• Reid Hoffman

  “Every month, every year, every week that there’s earlier [AI] access causes human goodness,”

• Reid Hoffman

  “XAI is, as Elon himself has described, it's a complete train wreck for its kind of building of foundational models and other kinds of things.”

• Reid Hoffman

  “It wasn’t like we rolled in, and it was like ‘Oh, that was fun and easy,’”

• Reid Hoffman

  “OK, there was a certain amount of blood lost on that one.”

• Safra Catz

  “Oracle's technology and business have never been stronger. And our breathtaking growth rate points to an even more prosperous future. At this time of strength is the right moment to pass the CEO role to the next generation of capable executives.”

• Safra Catz

  “Today, Oracle is recognized as the cloud of choice for both AI training and inferencing. I'm very proud of that,”

• Safra Catz

  “We are on the side of freedom. We are on the side of democracy,”

• Safra Catz

  “And by the way, this is true not only in companies — whole civilizations survive or disappear because of whether they’re adaptable to new conditions and new capabilities, and those that really take advantage of them are going to prosper,”

• Safra Catz

  “And one of the reasons that businesses succeed is when they’re adaptable and when they’re absorbing those new technologies. But those that sort of stick with what they have? They get passed over.”

• Safra Catz

  “Transforming yourself and modernizing yourself — that’s not a destination, it’s a constant journey,”

• Safra Catz

  “One thing we can agree on — in every company — is that the one thing that’s not going to change is that everything is changing all the time, and that you’ve got to be ready, and you’ve got to see it–and often see it before your competitors.”

• Safra Catz

  “But what we saw during COVID was, in fact, that companies who did not adjust…weren’t going to survive COVID. And what we saw is that changing fast, actually, isn’t risky at all — in fact, changing slowly can be fatal,”

• Safra Catz

  “From October 7th I feel like we have been in this trauma, catastrophe really from the first moment. There's before October 7th, and there's after, and it's been a really remarkable and difficult time,”

• Safra Catz

  “We believe now is a very good time to be in Israel”

• Safra Catz

  “The question is whether the company can survive or is it burning its cash.”

• Safra Catz

  “We have great respect for the Israeli government but think it made a mistake in the cloud tender,”

• Safra Catz

  “Not everyone was betting on Oracle to cross the chasm and be such a leader in the cloud.”

• Tim Ferriss

  “I went from $8 an hour working in libraries to $500 an hour. But it still required me in one place, trading time for money.”

• Tim Ferriss

  “But the [people] who really implode and fail completely are very often the ones who don't embrace and kind of engineer some type of identity diversification.”

• Tim Ferriss

  “It just needs to be consistent. Like, a couple times a week — one time a week, even — so that you have some type of way to make progress in an area that is not your primary lane.”

• Tim Ferriss

  “professional insurance [and] psychological insurance,”

• Tim Ferriss

  “I would say at least 70%, probably more than 80%, [of those people] have some type of what I and even they would describe as a meditative practice, whether that's actual meditation or something very similar in terms of [the] benefits,”

• Tim Ferriss

  “That means internal and external distractions are blocked off,”

• Tim Ferriss

  “It could be something like swimming, running: something that has a sort of rhythmic nature to it,”

• Tim Ferriss

  “There’s nothing glamorous or justifiable about it—I just hit my threshold.”

• Tim Ferriss

  “There’s a lot of struggle right now, whether that’s lowercase ‘s’ struggle or capital ‘S’ Struggle,”

• Tim Ferriss

  “I am not focused on maximizing productivity because that begs the question: to what aim?”

• Tim Ferriss

  “I just became a pouty three-year-old, who felt the need to throw a tantrum,”

• Warren Buffett

  “Out of eight billion people, I may be one of the 10 luckiest in the world.”

• Warren Buffett

  “Fortunately I got exposed, partly accidentally, to what I liked to do very early on, and that was just an accident.”

• Warren Buffett

  “If my father had been a plumber, I would not have.”

• Warren Buffett

  “The casino has gotten very attractive to people,”

• Warren Buffett

  “I’ll wait and see what unfolds ... I don’t have to make that decision today. And I haven’t made it today.”

• Warren Buffett

  “I’ve learned things I didn’t know about something for all these years.”

• Warren Buffett

  “I’m impressed by the fact that my kids really want to give the money away”

• Warren Buffett

  “read a great deal since Jan. 1 in terms of what happened with Bill and Epstein. And I have read his remarks to Congress given under oath, and I read the cross-examination.”

• Warren Buffett

  “No one bats a thousand in the business of choosing people,”

• Warren Buffett

  “It’s tough to find values when everybody is preferring gambling,”

• Warren Buffett

  “If you're Apple, you've got very, very smart people all over the world shooting and trying to figure out how to make sure that, that Apple's future, the future is as bright as the past.”

• Warren Buffett

  “That's the game they're playing now. They weren't playing that game with computer software.”

• Warren Buffett

  “I know more about Apple than I knew many years ago,”

• Warren Buffett

  “The trick in life is to find — I mean investing — is to find businesses that are going to earn high returns on capital for an extended period of time,”

• Brett Adcock

  “There’s absolutely no teleoperation into this,”

• Brett Adcock

  “We want to create intelligence that lets you offload your mental workload into a system that begins to think like you and sometimes ahead of you.”

• Brett Adcock

  “The A.I. systems I use today are far from my vision of what the future should be,”

• Brett Adcock

  “We're building a new species here,”

• Brett Adcock

  “We want the robot to be able to do most things in your home, autonomously, all day… We're not there yet. We think we can get there in 2026, but it's a big push.”

• Brett Adcock

  “The world was built for humans,”

• Brett Adcock

  “We see a tremendous advantage of having a large language model or multi models model on the robot so that we can interact with it and give what we call ‘semantic understanding,’”

• Brett Adcock

  “I think it’s getting more clear that this [humanoid robotics] are becoming more and more an engineering problem than it is a research problem,”

• Brett Adcock

  “Actually being able to build a humanoid [robot] and put it into the world of useful work is actually starting to be possible.”

• Brett Adcock

  “I think over time every human will have a humanoid,”

• Brett Adcock

  “[They could] even help colonize planets on the moon and Mars.”

• Brett Adcock

  “Most problems are solvable in the world, and we have a lot of problems over here every day.”

• Brett Adcock

  “I have a saying that the only way out is through,”

• Brett Adcock

  “With Figure we hope to do a lot of the dirty and dull and dangerous jobs that humans do today. I think that can be really important for the world if we can help automate a lot of this work that people don’t want to do or is really dangerous.”

• Bruce Springsteen

  “I should have f–king done it. I have to apologize.”

• Bruce Springsteen

  “I warned everybody what the tour was gonna be like so they didn’t waste their money before they came,”

• Bruce Springsteen

  “Our justice department has completely abdicated its independence”

• Bruce Springsteen

  “These are the hard times, but we’ll make it through. This is a tour that was not planned. We’re here tonight because we need to feel your hope, and your strength.”

• Bruce Springsteen

  “I tend to write more nuanced even with my political or topical songs,”

• Bruce Springsteen

  “We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times, but do not despair — the cavalry is coming!”

• Bruce Springsteen

  “The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock & roll, in dangerous times,”

• Bruce Springsteen

  “Right now we are living through incredibly critical times,”

• Larry Page

  “If you type Stanford, you get sort of random pages that mention Stanford. This obviously wasn’t going to work.”

• Larry Page

  “Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google,”

• Larry Page

  “Search engines didn’t really understand the notion of which pages were more important,”

• Larry Page

  “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

• Larry Page

  “In tech, we should have some safe places where we can try out some new things and figure out what is the effect on society and what is the effect on people, without having to deploy them in the whole world,”

• Larry Page

  “I think money is more important to them than having any collaboration.”

• Larry Page

  “We should be building great things that don’t exist. Being negative is not how we make progress, and the most important things are not zero sum.”

• Larry Page

  “We certainly struggle with people like Microsoft.”

• Larry Page

  “the pace of change is increasing”

• Larry Page

  “And that’s good, we don’t want to change the world. But maybe we can set aside a part of the world.”

• Larry Page

  “There are many exciting things you could do that are illegal or not allowed by regulation,”

• Larry Page

  “In some sense, I feel like music training led to the high-speed legacy of Google for me”

• Larry Page

  “from a very early age, I also realized I wanted to invent things. So I became interested in technology and business. Probably from when I was 12, I knew I was going to start a company eventually.”

• Larry Page

  “In music, you're very cognizant of time. Time is like the primary thing”

• Paul Krugman

  “I knew I had you beat when you came out with all these tech leader endorsements and I had all the PTA leaders and there are a lot more PTA leaders than tech leaders.”

• Paul Krugman

  “And since this is a quadruple beginning (new year, new century, new millennium and, for me, new column), I won’t even try. What follows are some broad opening-night thoughts about the world economy.”

• Paul Krugman

  “Pros: I can’t think of any.”

• Paul Krugman

  “Beginnings are always difficult: Even the most tough-minded writer finds it hard to avoid portentousness,”

• Paul Krugman

  “But yes I tell people the prize is not about the columns, the prize is about papers that you can’t read.”

• Paul Krugman

  “I’m a ruthless simplifier, I you know pair away everything, I try to make the math disappear and it never quite does but I’m a little model guy, I say here’s this huge complex subject, there’s got to be some little model that we get to the essence of it.”

• Paul Krugman

  “All the you know so we're back to to textbook macroeconomics but textbook macroeconomics has never been as relevant as it is right now.”

• Paul Krugman

  “Resources. We're we're probably significantly damaging the future but above all we're destroying millions of people's lives and we should stop doing it right now.”

• Paul Krugman

  “What is so terrible about the way we're messing up our policy right now uh it's terrible we're we're losing $900 billion a year probably of you know wasted resources.”

• Paul Krugman

  “Some observation and uh and we've been having those uh not unfortunately experiments lately of massive job creation programs but instead we've been having experience with massive job destruction programs.”

• Paul Krugman

  “It really is pretty clear that countries that uh that have pursued massive austerity have also um suffered uh large job losses so fiscal policy does move employment.”

• Sergey Brin

  “too scared to bring it to people”

• Sergey Brin

  “anybody who's a computer scientist should not be retired right now. They should be working on AI.”

• Sergey Brin

  “made a lot of mistakes with Google Glass”

• Sergey Brin

  “didn’t know anything about consumer electronic supply chains,”

• Sergey Brin

  “It’s a big, fast-moving field,”

• Sergey Brin

  “It’s funny, because it’s like the perfect hardware,”

• Sergey Brin

  “We haven’t fully understood why it leans left in many cases”

• Sergey Brin

  “I think it was mostly due to just not thorough testing. It definitely, for good reasons, upset a lot of people.”

• Sergey Brin

  “Seeing what these models can do year after year is astonishing,”

• Sergey Brin

  “We definitely messed up on the image generation,”

• Sergey Brin

  “I almost feel like we’re at Burning Man, but we’re all wearing clothes.”

• Sergey Brin

  “We’re lucky to have an environment that tolerates lots of risk and tolerates the inevitable failures.”

• Sergey Brin

  “First of all, let me just tell all of you that you should doubt my answers,”

• Sergey Brin

  “You can’t just think narrowly about your business … that you’re just going to maximize earnings and not be concerned about what’s going on around you,”

• Elton John

  “I’m so thrilled with it because it’s given me another chance to make music.”

• Elton John

  “It’s very frustrating when you’ve got the tools in your hand to end it, and then you find that countries won’t help”

• Elton John

  “You know, there’s a big war that’s being settled, hopefully,”

• Elton John

  “I was in pretty low spirits, kind of ornery for the first five or six days, to put it mildly. And a couple of times, I thought, 'I don't know whether we should continue with this.' But once it fell into place, it just went ahead like a rocket.”

• Elton John

  “We had nothing. But that's what excited me. I didn't want to know what was going to happen. I was wanting to be unprepared and have a big adventure.”

• Elton John

  “I thought, ‘No one’s really called Elton, so I’ll be Elton, and I’ll be the only Elton.’”

• Elton John

  “I realized I put everything into my work, and my art, and my recording, and there was nothing underneath it,”

• Elton John

  “You drove around in a convertible, and you listened to Joni Mitchell and you listened to Jackson Browne and James Taylor, and it was just a magical time.”

• Elton John

  “I will never be in Australia again or all over Europe. I’ll be in England or America and that’s it but I don’t know where, I don’t know when and I don’t know if it will even happen… Life throws curveballs at you.”

• Elton John

  “It’s not to say I’m going to stop doing things. I’m going to make records, I’m going to write musicals and I will do the odd show, here and there, maybe a residency, but it won’t be traveling,”

• Elton John

  “John was such a fun person. He was one of the naughtiest people I ever met and we got on like a house on fire,”

• Ezra Klein

  “Who’s going to be taking care of our elderly two generations from now? It’s going to be AI. But do you want all males in their early 20s and 30s creating the AI that’s gonna take care of you when you’re older?”

• Ezra Klein

  “I do not like the conflict. I’m not here for the plot. What I enjoy living in is the 20 or 30 minutes where people are just witty, and they’re hanging out together.”

• Ezra Klein

  “Comics have this fascinating myth-like capability to start and restart and be retold in ways that are more congruent to what’s going on then,”

• Ezra Klein

  “My favorite part of any movie is the 20 minutes before anything bad happens,”

• Keir Starmer

  “better shape than I found it”

• Keir Starmer

  “I will remain in post as prime minister until the contest is complete. And I will do everything I can to ensure an orderly handover of power.”

• Keir Starmer

  “I have spoken to his majesty the king this morning to inform him of my decision,”

• Keir Starmer

  “The question my party is asking now is whether I am best placed to lead us into the next general election. I have heard the answer of my parliamentary party to that question, and I accept that answer with good grace,”

• Keir Starmer

  “I'll be sitting in this seat by 2027,”

• Keir Starmer

  “We will see material change in the first term of a Labour government but we are talking about a decade of national renewal and I intend to lead from the front.”

• Keir Starmer

  “But in the end the politics of easy answers isn’t right for our country because easy answers don’t change things for the better. All the populist right has to offer are supposedly easy answers that don’t actually materialize into change.”

• Keir Starmer

  “I think it’s really important to put this into context: This is what the Ukrainian people face every single day and that is the price that they are paying,”

• Keir Starmer

  “it's not just not fair, it's not growing.”

• Keir Starmer

  “I don't pick heroes from history”

• Keir Starmer

  “I know traditionally Labour leaders might have said, 'it's the tax lever I can't wait to get my hands on' - that's not the case as far as I'm concerned because all of my focus is on growing our economy”

• Keir Starmer

  “what we can have is a serious plan for growth - and we can start that on day one.”

• Keir Starmer

  “The biggest problem in the last 14 years is that we've had too much flatlining in relation to our economy,”

• Marc Benioff

  “GAAP operating margin of 21.1%, up 130 points.”

• Marc Benioff

  “We have delivered record revenue, record deals, and just incredible cash flow.”

• Marc Benioff

  “Revenue was $11.13 billion, up 13% year over year nominal and 12% at constant currency.”

• Marc Benioff

  “And we delivered $6.7 billion in operating cash flow.”

• Marc Benioff

  “And we are seeing incredible demand for agentforce with ARR now greater than $1 billion.”

• Marc Benioff

  “Well, I think as everybody can see, this was really an outstanding quarter for Salesforce.”

• Marc Benioff

  “Agentic AI, well, it is the biggest growth opportunity for our customers, for us at Salesforce.”

• Marc Benioff

  “Tens of thousands of businesses across every industry are building their agentic enterprise with Salesforce.”

• Marc Benioff

  “And combined with Data 360 and Informatica Cloud, we have delivered $3.4 billion in AI and data ARR.”

• Marc Benioff

  “Salesforce says half of its work is being done by AI now. What happens to half of Salesforce's workers?”

• Marc Benioff

  “I’m probably the last CEO that you’ll meet who only managed humans,”

• Marc Benioff

  “All of us going forward are going to manage humans and agents together.”

• Marc Benioff

  “an important institution that is having a positive global impact on the world and is deeply aligned with our family’s values and we’re delighted to be the new stewards of Time Magazine.”

• MrBeast

  “It wasn’t enough to say I have a 160 IQ, the same as Einstein, we had to actually have them prove it.”

• MrBeast

  “Everything in my body said, let’s go to 10,000 contestants. But listening to the feedback, obviously people wanted to know more about them, and so we toned it down; people seemed to love those big changes.”

• MrBeast

  “Very rarely do we turn things down,”

• MrBeast

  “give millions of young people the financial foundation I never had.”

• MrBeast

  “It was literally their crew, their camera people, their everything,”

• MrBeast

  “I realize sometimes I ask questions where it’s a little obvious what they’re going to answer whereas he will say something very open ended, so the contestant just starts blabbing about something instead of leading them,”

• MrBeast

  “The more good you do, the more people think you are secretly evil.”

• MrBeast

  “So it’s pretty, pretty brutal, to be honest, and then it randomly clears up sometimes and just makes you very sick, very tired. It hurts like crazy, because it gets very inflamed, and it feels like someone’s stabbing me in the gut with like a knife constantly.”

• MrBeast

  “We were not meant to receive this kind of feedback from basically anyone, anywhere in the world.”

• MrBeast

  “Life is so easy when you just wake up in your own bed and work 15 hours compared with all this fucking bullshit where I’m like, ‘I don’t know the time zone I’m in, I don’t know what place on it’…some days I’m going to 10am, other days I’m going to 5pm.”

• MrBeast

  “tens of millions of dollars”

• Steven Spielberg

  “She always said, ‘Let’s not be conceited to think that we’re the only intelligent life in the universe,’”

• Steven Spielberg

  “'Disclosure Day' is about how, if somebody had the power and if somebody had possession of the entire archive of visual evidence of what's been happening for the last 80 years, what would happen if they decided to do a data dump across the entire world all at once?”

• Steven Spielberg

  “But I also remember seeing these points of light darting across the sky. And I just remember thinking that was one of the most extraordinary things I had ever seen.”

• Steven Spielberg

  “And the people who are trying to stop that data dump from happening, that is basically the core of this chase movie.”

• Steven Spielberg

  “I’ve been a believer since I made ‘Close Encounters’ 50 years ago,”

• Steven Spielberg

  “I didn’t care whether people thought ‘The Fabelmans’ was just a tale, a yarn, or if they cared that it was all true. I didn’t care about that. It was something I did for myself. I always used to say it was $40 million of therapy that I didn’t have to pay for. Universal did,”

• Steven Spielberg

  “It’s my first film that will be considered science fiction that I do not consider to be science fiction,”

• Steven Spielberg

  “It was the hardest question I ever had to ask myself because there was such completion in resolving so many personal issues that I had never aired in public before ‘The Fabelmans,’”

• Steven Spielberg

  “We’d be in different time zones and I would wake up to 30 or 35 texts from his most current reading of the script. When the leader of the project has that level of commitment, it tends to bring along everyone. You up your game.”

• Steven Spielberg

  “an appetite for a Western, which I will someday hopefully do. It’s something that’s eluded me for all of these decades.”

• Steven Spielberg

  “I’m making a lot of movies and I have no plans … ever … to retire.”

• Benny Safdie

  “I want to know what it feels like to go through that,”

• Benny Safdie

  “That everything outside is worthy of being on screen if it's truthful and it's emotional. You can find the opera out there on the street.”

• Benny Safdie

  “But you're like, I'm going to put my money on him that he's going to get there. I don't know how, but I'm confident he's going to make it. That uncertainty is what makes it really beautiful.”

• Benny Safdie

  “[Redford's performances are] able to give you full confidence that he's going to get through whatever obstacle he has in front of him, but at the same time, he has no idea if it's possible or if it's even going to happen,”

• Benny Safdie

  “There's an opera out on the turnpike. That is something I wholeheartedly believe in,”

• Benny Safdie

  “He said to me, 'Not a lot of people talk to me about my acting. Everybody comes up to me and talks to me about the things I've done in the industry, or the movies I've made, but they don't talk to me about my performances,'”

• Benny Safdie

  “He’s such a larger than life guy you don’t know what to expect, and then when I met him I was just like, ‘Wow, this guy’s unbelievable, he really is like the real deal,'”

• Benny Safdie

  “There’s a juxtaposition of grit and desperation along with these loving moments in Gems,”

• Benny Safdie

  “You walk in, and there are all these loud noises, big guys punching shit, hitting each other,”

• Benny Safdie

  “I’d sit and watch ‘House Hunters,’ ‘Fixer Upper,’ ‘Flip or Flop,’ all of them. I became hypnotized by it,”

• Benny Safdie

  “It’s a natural progression of what we each want to explore,”

• Benny Safdie

  “I will direct on my own, and I will explore things that I want to explore. I want that freedom right now in my life.”

• Benny Safdie

  “What if she wasn’t there? Your life is potentially over because you’ll never see her again.”

• Benny Safdie

  “That was the first time where I had a vision beyond four feet in front of me,”

• Brian Kemp

  “With what the new administration is doing, we want to go and learn more about that.”

• Brian Kemp

  “The White House is talking to and working with these companies,”

• Brian Kemp

  “The U.S. has not paid enough attention to South America,”

• Brian Kemp

  “There’s something good going on in Argentina,”

• Brian Kemp

  “There’s real opportunities here we need to take advantage of. … The Chinese are in Brazil. We need to make our presence known.”

• Brian Kemp

  “I had a good conversation with President Trump about my decision. I’m going to continue talking to him about the races in Georgia,”

• Brian Kemp

  “I think, if it’s possible, it would be great if we could line up on things. That’s hard to do sometimes in primaries. But it’s really too early to tell how that’s going to shake out.”

• Brian Kemp

  “And I really feel like I still have a lot left to do. And I just want to stay focused on the job that people elected me to do. And then after that, we’ll see what happens.”

• Brian Kemp

  “I voted, but I didn’t vote for anybody,”

• Brian Kemp

  “Look, at that point, it didn’t really matter.”

• Brian Kemp

  “And what I told them I’d do when I was running, I actually did as their governor. And I think the longer things went, the more people realized that, and that paid off big.”

• Brian Kemp

  “The greatest thing ever to happen to Brian Kemp was when Donald Trump decided he hated the guy,”

• Sam Bankman-Fried

  “It would be obviously, you know, ultimately up to the president, not up to me,”

• Sam Bankman-Fried

  “I'd give anything to be out there, trying to make a positive difference in the world, but I know that's not going to happen. I can't help from prison,”

• Sam Bankman-Fried

  “At the root, SullCrom's role in the prosecution, the one-sided media frenzy they incited, and the defense's inability to get in critical evidence at trial, infected the whole process,”

• Sam Bankman-Fried

  “It's most of what I think about each day,”

• Sam Bankman-Fried

  “I've heard and seen the despair, frustration and sense of betrayal from thousands of customers; they deserve to be paid in full, at current price,”

• Sam Bankman-Fried

  “I'm deeply sorry about what happened,”

• Sam Bankman-Fried

  “On Nov. 5 I was feeling quite good about that. On Nov. 7 I was feeling quite uneasy about that.”

• Sam Bankman-Fried

  “I realize I’m being a difficult pain in the ass right now and that I’m not in a position to be a pain in the ass and like, that’s shitty,”

• Sam Bankman-Fried

  “I was shocked by what happened this month. And you know, reconstructing it, there are things I wish I had done differently.”

• Sam Bankman-Fried

  “I saw it as a thriving, growing business,”

• Sam Bankman-Fried

  “I have a duty to talk. I have a duty to explain what happened. And I have a duty to do everything I can to try and do what's right.”

• Taylor Swift

  “I called him up and I just really quickly blurted out, like, I got to see the new 'Toy Story.' I have to tell you all about the film, but we need to write this song. We need to write this song,”

• Taylor Swift

  “What means a lot to me about this song is that in life you have friendships, you have memories with people, you form bonds, and then sometimes a path takes you a different way,”

• Taylor Swift

  “That really made me feel like I knew exactly what I wanted to write for her.”

• Taylor Swift

  “Sometimes you see somebody again down the road and you're just like, 'Man, it's been a while.' Like, but you're the same person that I had all these memories with.”

• Taylor Swift

  “We've seen her have her heart broken. Like, we've watched, you know, the car pull away,”

• Taylor Swift

  “It was just, I was so excited. It was such a frenetic form of excitement.”

• Taylor Swift

  “Knowing I had his blessing to enter this world was really special for me and kind of helped ease what might have been a stressful situation, if I didn't know that he was good with it,”

• Taylor Swift

  “That’s too much of it. Like, you’re inundating yourself with too much criticism that doesn’t really have a focus.”

• Taylor Swift

  “But don’t like... God, don’t go to the Notes app and post it. Like, write about it. Make art about this. Don’t respond to trolls in your comments. That’s not what we want from you. We want your art.”

• Taylor Swift

  “You have to hold tight to your perception of your art and your relationship with it, and then you just have to kind of like, ‘There it goes, hope you like it! If you don’t know, hope you do in five years! And if you never do, then I was doing it for me anyway.’”

• Taylor Swift

  “That song doesn’t exist if I don’t get criticized for every aspect of my personality that people have a problem with or whatever,”

• Taylor Swift

  “My favorite thing when I sit down with new artists or songwriters is I’m like, ‘Why are you reading your comments?’”

• Taylor Swift

  “I can only speak to me but as I’ve grown up, the intensity of the sort of no-pun-intended ‘message in a bottle’ nature of my songwriting has shifted and changed into something else,”

• Demis Hassabis

  “hundreds of diseases. That’s the aim. These are the first test cases.”

• Demis Hassabis

  “We’re at the foothills of the singularity,”

• Demis Hassabis

  “I think that AI, it's actually going to be almost a new era for humanity,”

• Demis Hassabis

  “I think AI, in the next 10 years, is going to save far more energy than it uses in the long run,”

• Demis Hassabis

  “building out their own energy infrastructures to make sure that the brunt of those costs and the energy that they're using is not passed on to the consumer.”

• Demis Hassabis

  “Understanding the deep mystery of the universe is my religion, kind of.”

• Demis Hassabis

  “I’ve dedicated my whole life to working on AI because I believe in its potential to change the world,”

• Demis Hassabis

  “... the reason I spent my whole career on AI is because I believe it could be the ultimate tool to help with science.”

• Ejae

  “I'm figuring it out as I go,”

• Ejae

  “I think music in general, if there's just music there, I will do it...I'm willing to do all. You know, wear all outfits,”

• Ejae

  “So to be hearing that now, it's just such a confidence booster. I'm trying to rewire my brain,”

• Ejae

  “I was at this panel the other day, and I was talking about that. And literally in the crowd while I was saying it, it was like, ‘We love your voice, EJAE!' And that just like, immediately, I couldn't not cry,”

• Ejae

  “It's just so foreign to me to hear that, really. I think for so long, I heard kind of the opposite, or just like, no comment on my voice.”

• Ejae

  “Oh yeah. I feel so honored to even be nominated for that, but to be given the award, [it] truly means a lot. Because I love K-pop, and as a lot of people know, I trained to be a K-pop idol.”

• Ejae

  “I would love to one day work on a project like ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ or do the soundtrack for a James Bond film.”

• Ejae

  “It would be a message to every Asian-American girl who’s ever felt impostor syndrome in this industry.”

• Ejae

  “Rumi’s lyrics reflect her desperation to fix her patterns. It’s like her personal pep talk – telling herself not to give up and that she can reach her dreams.”

• Ejae

  “As a trainee, I learnt to think about how a song might translate into choreography or a music video,”

• Ejae

  “I learned to think about how a song might translate into choreography or a music video. That perspective has shaped my songwriting ever since.”

• Ejae

  “After getting dropped, my dream to become a singer—I let that go,”

• Jeff Dean

  “We think there is opportunity for AI to more fully automate what has traditionally been a very human-intensive experimental loop,”

• Jeff Dean

  “By fundamentally accelerating how engineering and scientific discovery are conducted, we can deliver the benefits of transformative technologies to the world far sooner.”

• Jeff Dean

  “You will get both a higher quantity and a higher quality of experiments, and that will lead to scientific breakthroughs and advances.”

• Jeff Dean

  “Vietnam is in a very good position. With your strong education system, bringing more people into this field is very, very important.”

• Jeff Dean

  “This is absolutely shameful.”

• Jeff Dean

  “Agents of a federal agency unnecessarily escalating, and then executing a defenseless citizen whose offense appears to be using his cell phone camera. Every person regardless of political affiliation should be denouncing this.”

• Jeff Dean

  “Having low latency systems that can do that seems really important, and flash is one direction, one way of doing that.”

• Jeff Dean

  “a million tokens kind of pushes what you can do.”

• Jeff Dean

  “I think you'll see pretty similar levels of difference in the models five years from now.”

• Jeff Dean

  “If you think back five years ago to what these models could do, it's a major difference between the models of today,”

• Jeff Dean

  “It’s a difficult problem because the models are trained to generate probabilistically plausible sentences, and those are not always true.”

• Jeff Dean

  “I do think we’re making progress,”

• Jeff Dean

  “It's important to engage with governments around the world in how they're thinking about AI — to help inform them,”

• Tom Sturridge

  “And he trusts that you are enough. You don’t have to present. He will find.”

• Tom Sturridge

  “Tom, your hair is really messy. You look sick, you’re so pale. And if I stare into your eyes, I can see the cosmos. So it’s fine. We’re good.”

• Tom Sturridge

  “I wanted to build a body that felt like a creature and was true to the images that are in the comics. Which meant just kind of… It’s someone whose flesh is burnt away, and is just sinew and bone,”

• Tom Sturridge

  “There’s so many aspects of his physicality that were important to me, simply because he doesn’t express himself traditionally, often. And so the way that he moves, I think, could be an enlightening way of how he can articulate himself,”

• Tom Sturridge

  “It’s just so unusual when you’re building a character or when you’re embarking on a job to have a bible that’s over 2,500 pages long where you can really discover every fragment of who these characters are,”

• Tom Sturridge

  “going to the gym for long periods of time and not eating anything – and D will happen.”

• Tom Sturridge

  “to have a physicality that could convey this powerful animal, as if you had shaved a panther.”

• Tom Sturridge

  “I wanted to see the creature that I bore witness to in the books,”

• Tom Sturridge

  “We’re literally sitting in bird shit,”

• Tom Sturridge

  “Ask anyone in this park [who I am] or tell them my name,”

• Tom Sturridge

  “One would assume you’re alone when you do it, right? And, actually, the thing we discovered pretty much the first time we performed is how integral the audience is and how a monologue is a dialogue with them,”

• Tom Sturridge

  “No! It’s true and it’s beautiful. I said this about Amy Adams and I feel the same way about him: He’s ruthlessly compassionate.”

• Tom Sturridge

  “I can't imagine having done this experience any way else,”

• Tom Sturridge

  “This man is entirely aware that he’s standing in front of a thousand people telling story,”

• Yann LeCun

  “Elon is now in a position that is very, very difficult for him to kind of hire top people in AI, because he's kind of, you know, not behaved in sort of very good ways toward the ... previous team.”

• Yann LeCun

  “They [LLMs] basically just accumulate knowledge... They can regurgitate something, you train them to regurgitate, but they're not particularly smart. They don't have an underlying understanding,”

• Yann LeCun

  “going to have to increase prices, they're going to have to cut costs, or there's going to be a big bubble explosion.”

• Yann LeCun

  “the cost of running those systems with this kind of performance is very high compared to the amount of money that users are ready to pay.”

• Yann LeCun

  “The prices are going up of those AI services, but the cost of running them is going down, but not nearly fast enough. And so all of those companies are losing money, and basically, the use for most people is funded by the investors. That can't go on for a very long right?”

• Yann LeCun

  “We don't have robots that are nearly as good at understanding the physical world as a rat,”

• Yann LeCun

  “I personally don't think we're going to have generalized reliable agentic systems until they're based on world models,”

• Yann LeCun

  “Will AI take over the world? No, this is a projection of human nature on machines,”

• Yann LeCun

  “We need machines that understand the world; [machines] that can remember things, that have intuition, have common sense, things that can reason and plan to the same level as humans,”

• Yann LeCun

  “Despite what you might have heard from some of the most enthusiastic people, current AI systems are not capable of any of this.”

• Yann LeCun

  “You’re going to have to pardon my French, but that’s complete B.S.”

• Yann LeCun

  “do not understand the physical world, do not have persistent memory, cannot reason in any reasonable definition of the term and cannot plan… hierarchically.”

• Fei-Fei Li

  “For all the young women I work with and the generations of girls to come, I'm okay now accepting this title,”

• Fei-Fei Li

  “We're used to even disagreement, and I think that's healthy. A topic as profound and impactful as AI requires a lot of healthy debate and public discourse.”

• Fei-Fei Li

  “Some of you might know that I have been vocal about my concerns about this bill [SB 1047], which was vetoed, but right now I’m thinking deeply, and with a lot of excitement, to look forward,”

• Fei-Fei Li

  “I come from academic AI and have been educated in the more rigorous and evidence-based methods, so I don’t really know what all these words mean,”

• Fei-Fei Li

  “I frankly don’t even know what AGI means. Like people say you know it when you see it, I guess I haven’t seen it.”

• Fei-Fei Li

  “I was very flattered, or honored, that Governor Newsom invited me to participate in the next steps of post-SB 1047.”

• Fei-Fei Li

  “I absolutely respect that. I think, intellectually, we should talk about all this. But if you ask me as an AI leader… I feel there are other risks that are what I would call catastrophic risks to society that are more pressing and urgent,”

• Fei-Fei Li

  “This moment in AI is an inflection moment,”

• Fei-Fei Li

  “Because of that, it impacts our world in a more profound way,”

• Fei-Fei Li

  “It takes people to call out the imperfections of ImageNet and to call out fairness issues. This is why we need diverse voices,”

• Fei-Fei Li

  “Our collective understanding of the role data plays is so much more sophisticated now… compared to 2009, when we were the first to call out the importance of data,”

• Jennifer Doudna

  “Science funding is not a political football but in fact a down payment on discovery, the seed money to fund a critical step toward ending Alzheimer’s or curing cancer.”

• Jennifer Doudna

  “Studying how bacteria fight viral infections may sound like a niche area of biology, and it was,”

• Jennifer Doudna

  “What if I could become a scientist who worked on discovering things about the natural world, maybe things no one had ever known before?”

• Jennifer Doudna

  “I loved the process of discovery,”

• Jennifer Doudna

  “But this curiosity-driven research led in directions that none of us anticipated at the start of the project.”

• Jennifer Doudna

  “I ended up getting a full scholarship, you know, so that kind of settled the question.”

• Jennifer Doudna

  “I certainly didn't start out in my career thinking I'm doing this to win prizes.”

• Jennifer Doudna

  “I deeply love Hawaii. I love the culture there. It's a very special place,”

• Jennifer Doudna

  “I felt totally unprepared and totally over my head,”

• Jennifer Doudna

  “Everybody else seemed to be a lot more sophisticated than me. . . . I had grown up in such a different place.”

• Jennifer Doudna

  “Lets do this now before the technology is applied in ways which people might feel very uncomfortable about,”

• Jennifer Doudna

  “It’s a wonderful honor to have this opportunity to share with you the science that we’ve done over the last few years, and to discuss the extraordinary opportunities and exciting advances that are happening right now with CRISPR-Cas9 as a genome editing technology.”

• John Oliver

  “That’s the only way that we can really move forward, total denial.”

• John Oliver

  “so I’ll just conclude by saying this: Let’s see Byron Allen do that on Comics Unleashed.”

• John Oliver

  “And if you’re thinking, ‘Why would you find a cartoon character sexually attractive in the first place?’ First, lots of people do, but that’s not what this thought exercise is asking, really,”

• John Oliver

  “I know to some, Vance might appear to be just another abrasive Maga asshole with a load-bearing beard,”

• John Oliver

  “But to many on the right, he’s a towering intellect.”

• John Oliver

  “Do you mean this show or this career? Certainly it feels like I've got some decisions to make.”

• John Oliver

  “That feels like a massive misuse of time, to wonder whether someone hates you … because you have to know deep down the answer is yes.”

• John Oliver

  “We were writing the show in one or two days. We now have six researchers and six stories in different stages of development at the same time. We’re definitely better at it than when we started.”

• Ken Griffin

  “We are extremely excited and bullish about the potential returns from this project,”

• Ken Griffin

  “We intend to be here for decades. And he will be here for a few years.”

• Ken Griffin

  “I believe Citadel will be a principal player in financial services for far longer than [New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani] will be mayor,”

• Ken Griffin

  “How have we ended up with so many 20- and 30-year-olds who actually think socialism is the path to prosperity?”

• Ken Griffin

  “You just don’t want to go on the frontal assault. You’re going to lose,”

• Ken Griffin

  “Of all the things that this man could have around him, he’s got this cheesy $10 plaque that says, ‘If we’re all going to eat, someone has to sell,’”

• Ken Griffin

  “When you’re in your 20s, what’s your worst-case scenario? It’s not that bad. If you’re in your 40s and you go to start a venture, there’s more downside,”

• Ken Griffin

  “The entrepreneurs of any moment in time are the people that have the skill set that is relevant to solve the problems of that moment in time,”

• Ken Griffin

  “I really deduced that in my 20s, I would take risk in my career. Why not? I have nothing to lose.”

• Ken Griffin

  “But how do you get under the radar of your competition? How do you solve a problem with a customer that they’re not paying attention to? You need to think outside of the box in building a startup.”

• Peter Thiel

  “So the GDP grows, but it’s a giant windfall to the boomer homeowners and to the landlords and it’s a massive hit to the lower-middle class and to young people who can never get on the housing ladder.”

• Peter Thiel

  “The basic Georgist obsession was real estate and it was if you weren’t really careful, you would get runaway real estate prices and the people who owned the real estate would make all the gains in a society,”

• Peter Thiel

  “benefit the boomers, whose properties keep going up in value and [are] extremely detrimental to the millennials.”

• Peter Thiel

  “when the Democratic Party goes, this country is over,”

• Peter Thiel

  “There are all these anti-Trump protests: we don’t want kings, we want rule of law,”

• Peter Thiel

  “The Republican Party doesn’t matter that much. It’s the less important one,”

• Peter Thiel

  “working for the Chinese Communists.”

• Peter Thiel

  “My generation was the first one where things felt really stuck,”

• Barack Obama

  “Ultimately if we get that part of our democracy right, if our politics reflect our better instincts rather than our worst, we can solve a lot of the problems that we confront,”

• Barack Obama

  “I'm not interested in the center and the exhibits being an exercise in nostalgia. I don't want people to just be looking back and say, 'Oh, wow. Hope and change. That was so much fun. And I miss you.' Those are nice sentiments,”

• Barack Obama

  “You get the baton. You run your race, then you hand off the baton and all you have control over is that portion of the race that you run. And I could say unequivocally that the country was much better off by the time I finished my race than when I started.”

• Barack Obama

  “I don't believe democracy's broken.”

• Barack Obama

  “It is a healthy aspect of our democracy that you get eight years, at most, and then it's time for some fresh legs,”

• Barack Obama

  “Punch me in the face, and I'm not going to retaliate.”

• Barack Obama

  “I face the world as it is, and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people.”

• Barack Obama

  “This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.”

• Beyoncé

  “I don’t like too much structure. I like to be free. I’m not alive unless I am creating something.”

• Beyoncé

  “Anyone who perceives my message as antipolice is completely mistaken. I have so much admiration and respect for officers and the families of officers who sacrifice themselves to keep us safe. But let’s be clear: I am against police brutality and injustice. Those are two separate things.”

• Beyoncé

  “I had to tell myself, ‘At some point, you have to be the adult that your father has raised.’”

• Beyoncé

  “My parents taught me how to work hard and smart. Both were entrepreneurs; I watched them struggle working 18-hour days,”

• Beyoncé

  “We both knew it was time, maybe a few years before, but I love my father so much, and he has taught me so many things. So [choosing to part ways] was something that was hard,”

• Beyoncé

  “They taught me that nothing worth having comes easily. My father stressed discipline and was tough with me. He pushed me to be a leader and an independent thinker. My mother loved me unconditionally, so I felt safe enough to dream.”

• Beyoncé

  “If Beyoncé came to me and said, ‘Dad, I wanna be a doctor,’ I would find a way of buying a hospital.”

• Beyoncé

  “I worked so hard during my childhood to meet this goal: By the time I was 30 years old, I could do what I want.”

• Beyoncé

  “You lose touch with who you are,”

• Beyoncé

  “You wanna think she’s a bitch because she’s so fine,”

• Beyoncé

  “When you work so much like we did, it’s just too much.”

• Eddie Redmayne

  “The amount people talk about it,”

• Eddie Redmayne

  “I can literally say nothing,”

• Eddie Redmayne

  “It’s completely all consuming. I was doing Cabaret in New York but in the mornings, all day, I was working on the edits and on the marketing, the visual effects, the music, and it was sort of all encompassing.”

• Eddie Redmayne

  “It’s about what happens when humanity is consumed by hate. And the idea of the creation of the other and the exploitation of the other to instill fear.”

• Eddie Redmayne

  “There is great joy that comes from that—from each time getting to re-mine the character and re-look at it in a different context and with a different inspiration.”

• Eddie Redmayne

  “He came to see the show with John Kander the other night. I’m not going to lie, I was utterly terrified and intimidated, but they could not have been more generous and kind.”

• Eddie Redmayne

  “When you’re doing a musical like this, it’s quite monastic living, and it’s almost more like being an athlete than an actor sometimes because when you’re doing eight shows a week, you’re keeping your voice in decent nick,”

• Eddie Redmayne

  “You’re rehearsing from 9 o’clock in the morning to 6 in the evening, and you’re doing these numbers over and over again. Your voice is a muscle, so it’s about getting to the point where it’s able to sustain,”

• Eddie Redmayne

  “‘Spotted without his ring!’”

• Eddie Redmayne

  “Charlie was really two different people,”

• Francis Collins

  “when we get to the point where we can say we changed medicine, then I'll feel like we've got somewhere.”

• Francis Collins

  “not allowed to speak — in any kind of scientific meeting or public setting.”

• Francis Collins

  “NIH is the largest supporter of biomedical research in the world,”

• Francis Collins

  “They are individuals of extraordinary intellect and integrity, selfless and hard-working, generous and compassionate. They personify excellence in every way, and they deserve the utmost respect and support of all Americans.”

• Francis Collins

  “It is the main piston of a biomedical discovery engine that is the envy of the globe. Yet it is not a household name. It should be.”

• Francis Collins

  “Investment in medical research was seen as a high priority and a nonpolitical bipartisan effort -- saving countless lives, relieving human suffering and contributing substantially to the U.S. economy,”

• Francis Collins

  “I was so grateful for the opportunity to reassure this young man and his friends that there is a wonderful answer to the dilemma they face and to walk them through what that might be,”

• Jamie Dornan

  “I think I've done two shoots in my underwear ever. They both happened to be for Calvin Klein,”

• Jamie Dornan

  “And the exposure from it was very minimal in a way. Today, it would be everywhere, it would be frenzied.”

• Jamie Dornan

  “Also the whole sequence of events, so it looked like there was a lot of scale for having fun with that, so I was like, I want to be the one having fun with it.”

• Jamie Dornan

  “I like being surrounded by Irish people. It is a sincere, real comfort for me.”

• Jamie Dornan

  “It was really nice to spend another four months there doing the second series to really remind myself how much I love it there,”

• Jamie Dornan

  “It's a second album syndrome, second season syndrome. But I think it's beneficial that we're offering up something slightly different.”

• Jamie Dornan

  “Like trying to meet your mates on Saturday afternoons in town and there’d been a bomb scare.”

• Jamie Dornan

  “I always think back to stuff that became normal, that was not normal,”

• Jamie Dornan

  “From the day I was born, until the day I left, people pretty much were fighting a civil war.”

• Jamie Dornan

  “I may never be in a job again where I say so many times, 'Uh, what are we doing?'”

• Katalin Karikó

  “I think about all of the young girls who may become inspired by my story and want to become scientists. To them I say: Stay curious, adopt the right attitude and stay on the track no matter how long and winding that road may be.”

• Katalin Karikó

  “My science teachers made sure that I stayed curious for life and encouraged me to keep learning,”

• Katalin Karikó

  “It was like winning the lottery,”

• Katalin Karikó

  “were constantly educating each other,”

• Katalin Karikó

  “If I don't bring in the money I don't deserve the working space,”

• Katalin Karikó

  “Because you are fired, don't start to feel sorry for yourself. You just have to focus on what's next because that's what you can change.”

• Katalin Karikó

  “If you are fired from your job you don’t panic, you think I’ll get a new opportunity. Everything has a positive, you have to find it.”

• Katalin Karikó

  “Maybe they burned their hands when cooking … You can apply [the RNA] and accelerate healing.”

• Katalin Karikó

  “There is so much more to discover.”

• Katalin Karikó

  “I was very much surprised. But I am very happy.”

• Katalin Karikó

  “I always had one or two person who believed also with me, and then we proceeded together.”

• Katalin Karikó

  “I could figure out things, that something is important, and I thought always it is important, and I tried to believe that it is doable, and not listen to those that said not so.”

• Morris Chang

  “I was 54 years old, and I knew I had reached the ceiling,”

• Morris Chang

  “Leaving TI was the most important decision I made for my future.”

• Morris Chang

  “I quoted Shakespeare in my autobiography,”

• Morris Chang

  “By all means, let’s avoid even a Cold War, if we can.”

• Morris Chang

  “Without national security, we will lose everything, everything that we value,”

• Morris Chang

  “Because TSMC also gets good, well-trained technicians, and even well-trained operators from a lot of trade schools in Taiwan. … Their students aspire to make a good living as technicians.”

• Morris Chang

  “It works, the learning curve, the experience curve, it works only when you have a common location,”

• Robert Pattinson

  “Seeing him on the mast, I’m like, ‘Jeez you’re really taking years off your life doing this.’”

• Robert Pattinson

  “And I was just like, ‘Jeez’ ‘cause he’s such a nice guy and… I thought he was on the phone and I’m like, ‘He’s a complete psycho,’”

• Robert Pattinson

  “I had to do a meeting with the director, and he’d done this horror movie, and I watched it, and I kept thinking that someone was breaking into my house,”

• Robert Pattinson

  “It was probably a squirrel.”

• Robert Pattinson

  “My girlfriend came in and she was like, ‘What is happening? Why do you have two knives in your face and you’re sleeping?'”

• Robert Pattinson

  “And so I was sitting on my sofa with two kitchen knives waiting for the person to come in. And then I fell asleep with them basically in my neck on the couch.”

• Robert Pattinson

  “If someone told me I was going to die in a week, I'd be like, 'What? I want to spend some more time with my kid',”

• Robert Pattinson

  “Robert Pattinson doing another weird freaky little accent,”

• Robert Pattinson

  “Are you still stuck on that s—? How can you be sad about something that happened almost 20 years ago? It’s crazy.”

• Robert Pattinson

  “I love that people keep telling me, ‘Man, Twilight ruined the vampire genre.'”

• Robert Pattinson

  “I mean, it's now my longest professional relationship by far, like, in my life, and I never thought that it was going to happen at all. I was surprised in the first place for the relationship to begin, but it's been so great.”

• Robert Pattinson

  “I mean the legacy of the actors who played (Batman), they’ve all been such massive parts of my life and my interest in film and why I wanted to be an actor in the first place,”

• Ruth Porat

  “It’s models, it’s chips, it’s research, and it’s the application across all of our platforms,”

• Ruth Porat

  “One area we care immensely about is delivering for everyone in a high-quality way, especially when models were hallucinating,”

• Ruth Porat

  “If you wake up in the middle of the night and your child has a fever, and you want to give Tylenol, it better be right. Google stands for quality, and that was very important to us.”

• Ruth Porat

  “People come into their careers with a preordained notion of what work they're going to do. Given that the world is dynamic, not static, they miss seeing things that otherwise might be extraordinary.”

• Ruth Porat

  “A star is someone who is in my face, because I want them to challenge me in different ways,”

• Ruth Porat

  “I don't want people who process. I want people who think,”

• Ruth Porat

  “The next big thing starts with search,”

• Ruth Porat

  “It’s about a radical rethink of ‘What is your business?’”

• Ruth Porat

  “There’s an overused expression [that is meaningful nonetheless]: ‘You’re not going to lose to AI; you’re going to lose to the person who is using AI.’”

• Ruth Porat

  “You do not want to be the one that’s waking up too late and realizing that you’re behind in your industry,”

• Ruth Porat

  “Google started as ‘10 blue links’ and then evolved to tech search, then to voice search, and now multimodal search,”

• Gavin Newsom

  “He was never going to invade Greenland; it was never real. So that was always a fake, and so he says, ‘We should negotiate.’ Everybody here has been willing to negotiate for a year.”

• Gavin Newsom

  “I’m not coming in to punch anybody in the face, but I’m not pleased that, in the face of this invasive species that is Donald Trump, who’s completely changed the rules of the game, that we’re still playing by the old rules of the game,”

• Gavin Newsom

  “His head is in the sand, or it’s in the pockets of Big Oil and other carbon interests. He’s selling out your health, he’s selling out our kids’ future, for a quick buck.”

• Gavin Newsom

  “He’s changing the rules. He’s rigging the game because he knows he’ll lose if all things are equal,”

• Gavin Newsom

  “He did not expect California to fight fire with fire.”

• Gavin Newsom

  “Four months ago, if you asked me that question, I would have been struggling to find positive signs of the party. I feel it’s a completely different moment,”

• Gavin Newsom

  “He's a wrecking ball. Not just the symbolism and substance of the East Wing; he's wrecking alliances, truth, trust, tradition, institutions.”

• Gavin Newsom

  “But he at least expressed that — I see you, you matter, I care.”

• Gavin Newsom

  “I'm not worried about [whether] we will find a great candidate,”

• Gavin Newsom

  “This party needs to rebuild itself from the bottom up, not top down. We are as dumb as we want to be.”

• Geoffrey Hinton

  “What’s happening is these things are getting smarter,”

• Geoffrey Hinton

  “I think as they get smarter, we’re going to see more and more complex intentions they have – and more and more ability to escape control.”

• Geoffrey Hinton

  “my guess is in between five and 20 years from now there’s a probability of half that we’ll have to confront the problem of AI trying to take over”

• Geoffrey Hinton

  “I had no idea this would happen. I'm very surprised,”

• Geoffrey Hinton

  “It’s going to be like the Industrial Revolution - but instead of our physical capabilities, it’s going to exceed our intellectual capabilities,”

• Geoffrey Hinton

  “This stuff will get smarter than us and take over,”

• Geoffrey Hinton

  “And if you want to know what that feels like, ask a chicken.”

• Keanu Reeves

  “Go to work and respect who you're working with until they prove they don't get your respect,”

• Keanu Reeves

  “Try not to be [an asshole]. It might not work out, but try.”

• Keanu Reeves

  “I was in Toronto, Canada, and then I got a manager who lived in Los Angeles.”

• Keanu Reeves

  “I think the idea of looking at video games and movies and so on, it's just a way of exonerating the people who are really profiting from the violence.”

• Keanu Reeves

  “I love words and storytelling and I love the way that you can have this engagement that overlays. And so you can look at the art and then you can follow the story.”

• Keanu Reeves

  “Grief changes shape, but it never ends. [...] People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone, and I'm better.' They're wrong.”

• Keanu Reeves

  “where I would pick up pins and clean on the weekend for allowance money.”

• Keanu Reeves

  “I think there’s an English formality my mom carries, and that’s become a part of me, too,”

• Lloyd Blankfein

  “We had to run things 50 times and be perfect the last 49 times before we could go that way.”

• Lloyd Blankfein

  “You could put on hedges, and those hedges could be worthless tomorrow, if things go another way,”

• Lloyd Blankfein

  “But in America, people do come from the projects and do that and do those things.”

• Lloyd Blankfein

  “He's made a contribution if he focuses everybody's attention on the affordability and sustainability of the city.”

• Lloyd Blankfein

  “Taking away the Fed's independence and making it another tool of fiscal policy … would diminish its value, just making it more expensive for the U.S. to function in the world,”

• Lloyd Blankfein

  “We have to do … a better job of distributing the wealth without putting too much of a burden on what we do to generate the wealth,”

• Lloyd Blankfein

  “It is a certainty that this will - that this situation will cause - will act in a way that’s similar to a rate rise in some ways. Banks will have to, you know, because of the tension, because of the pressure and uncertainties, banks will husband their equity,”

• Lloyd Blankfein

  “At some point there needs to be a forcing function or a reckoning that causes you to come to grips with what your balance sheet really is worth,”

• Lloyd Blankfein

  “So I'd say all the signs are good, and usually when all the signs are this good, I really worry.”

• Lloyd Blankfein

  “I'm generally bullish, and by the way, it's been good to be bullish on Big Tech,”

• Megan Thee Stallion

  “I feel like the main thing for me is always selling it. Making sure who I am comes through in my voice when I’m rapping. You’re not going to believe what I’m saying if I don’t deliver it strong. My delivery lets people know that I’m strong.”

• Megan Thee Stallion

  “This is music I would like if I wasn’t Megan Thee Stallion. I don’t want to say I’m tapping into other genres. I’m just tapping into other sounds. But it’s still very much Megan Thee Stallion. It won’t feel like I went so left. It’ll feel true to me,”

• Megan Thee Stallion

  “I am 100% from Houston, Texas,”

• Megan Thee Stallion

  “This abt to be a REAL HOT GIRL SUMMER.”

• Megan Thee Stallion

  “My mother was pregnant with me in Houston. My grandmother is from San Antonio and she was like, 'You need to come have this baby in San Antonio.' So my momma drove to San Antonio, had me in the hospital, and took me right back to the H.”

• Megan Thee Stallion

  “He's, 'I'm so sorry. Please don't tell nobody. I'll give y'all a million dollars if y'all don't say nothing.' And I'm like, 'What are you talking about? Like, why are you offering me money right now? Help me. Like, and if you sorry, just help me,'”

• Megan Thee Stallion

  “It was an argument because I was ready to go and everybody else wasn't ready to go. But that's, like, normal friend stuff,”

• Megan Thee Stallion

  “Every time she put on a new song, [she would say] ‘Put you on some real shit right quick,”

• Megan Thee Stallion

  “I was kind of shy about telling people that I could rap for the longest.”

• Megan Thee Stallion

  “I’ve been writing since I was maybe seven,”

• Paul McCartney

  “It brings me back to the people.”

• Paul McCartney

  “My uncles and aunties and my parents were so relieved that Hitler wasn't sending these bombers any more - so it was piano, it was music, it was jokes.”

• Paul McCartney

  “I had a little school-exercise book where I wrote those lyrics down. And in the top right-hand corner of the page, I put ‘A Lennon-McCartney original.’ It was humble beginnings,”

• Paul McCartney

  “We’d had enough of playing rain-soaked stages with lousy PA’s,”

• Paul McCartney

  “It’s always held a fascination for me, getting up in front of people and performing,”

• Henry Paulson

  “was the last consequential bipartisan legislation that came from Congress. And it was done in 16 days.”

• Henry Paulson

  “On the one hand, we all look back and we say, ‘Well, the system worked’ in one sense, in that we got the emergency legislation we needed in Fannie or Freddie before there was disaster,”

• Henry Paulson

  “I felt that the huge benefit that my experience in China brought with it was the working relations I had with China’s leaders,”

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