I think, a lot of times in Hollywood, the right idea comes along at the right time, and it becomes in retrospect, 'Wow, why didn't I think of that?'

Nobody would think that anybody on a terror watch list should have a gun, right?

I was a teenager with braces and into sporty dresses with bright colors and cut-outs. For awhile, I really experimented with what I wanted to do. Some really extreme things, I recall.

I just love where I am right now in my career.

The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

Right now I'm single. Single, and loving it.

Right now I'm happy to be on the ice anywhere, anytime.

This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.

Just do the best to do things the right way.

It was a total accident that I walked into my 'Super 8' audition looking exactly right for the part.

We actually tried to invest in Twitter in April 2007, right when it launched. At the time, the company was wary of having a classic, tier-one traditional venture firm involved.

Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?

The key thing is, always put the right content on the right network, on the right platform, make it great, and then figure out how to monetize it.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.

The words walked right out of my mouth.

I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.

I started at 'The Post' as an intern in 2000 right after I got out of college.

The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.

If I'm walking down the riverbank, and a man is drowning, even if I don't know how to swim very well, I feel this urge that the right thing to do is to try to save that person. Evolution would tell me exactly the opposite: preserve your DNA. Who cares about the guy who's drowning?