DJ Paul Quotes

I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.

A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.

This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

The wrong one will start saying things like "withdraw with honor." We've heard phrases like that before, and they led to thousands and thousands of deaths. Democrats always want to look tough.

What happens when these young men and women come home so scarred and so wounded? We are ignoring that fact. We're just shoving them under the carpet.

As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.

We never did just one take. Multiple takes. Many. I did a bunch. Sometimes I do one take. Sometimes I did 20.

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.

It takes me awhile to find something that I'm passionate about. I'm reading a lot and thinking a lot, and torturing myself a lot because I'm feeling really guilty for not writing something today.

It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.

There's something that's so basically corrupt about any system in which a good and fair profit is not enough. There has to be more, every year, every quarter, because your stock price has to rise.

There are very few guys like me. I make a lot of money. I didn't always.

Right after we invaded Iraq, I put a sign on my lawn that said "War is not the answer." That sign was either defaced, ripped up, or stolen every week. I had to replace that sign twelve times.

When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures.

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough.

I wanted to do a political film that is as nonpartisan as can be, because I wanted to do a story that was American. I wanted to tell an American tragedy.

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.

Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.

I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author.

I worry that if whatever pops into your head at any instant immediately goes online, you lose the crucial time for your thoughts to simmer and evolve and build up nuance, depth and empathy.

He smelled cold water and cold intrepid green. Those early flowers smelled like cold water. Their fragrance was not the still perfume of high summer; it was the smell of cold, raw green.

Unfair and unkind behavior in exchange for your loving efforts is the rule rather than the exception

Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings.

How much harm does a company have to do before we question its right to exist?

Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good.

In short, industrialism is over.

Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections.

What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.

Don't go to business school.

We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.

You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.

Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.

What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

Cancer is cancer. I've got a great life if I can just stay alive.

I always thought Christians were the weak people. When you can't make it in life then you have to ask God. I really prided myself on being a self-made man.

The Bible says not to worry so I don't. I just get up in the morning and ask God for help to get through the day. If tomorrow shows up then I'll take the same shot tomorrow.

I'm pretty transparent and have no problem sharing my weaknesses.

I'm a very, very proud Canadian, and having the privilege to represent my country on the international level was the highlight of my 18-year career.

In a war, you do whatever you have to do.

My philosophy, don't let cancer ruin your life. You get up every day and use what you have and what time you have left.

The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent out of shape about it.

I didn't handle fame very well at first. I got a little resentful.

There is no wrinkle-free life.

After I started to understand the spiritual dimension of life, I understood the responsibilities you have as a husband, a father, a friend and a hockey player.

[Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation.

When you have hope, and you have peace, you can handle anything.