DJ Paul Quotes

With each passing year, because of advances in computer technology, there are more things, each more sophisticated, that we aren't allowed to do any more.

In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.

I particularly like the catchphrase of Leonardo Da Vinci: Ostinato Rigore! (Which means, pretty much, Relentless Rigor).

While I read almost all my newspapers online, I'm not a big fan of e-books because I like to see what I've read and remember it. Books are a way of making memory physical.

I need my trusty Mac laptop to write. I can't work with anything else. I'm used to the feel of the keys. I also like, more than anything else, Apple's Pages.

I write in Times New Roman, 12 point, and arrange the margins so that the screen looks like a page from a book. This spurs me on to make the writing as perfect as I can make it.

My body may have been abused, but it certainly hasn't been neglected.

I'm used to living alone, and I like it that way. You become so selfish living alone...I'd make a terrible husband anyway.

Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.

It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage.

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.

My sisters said, Why do you make those faces? You make yourself so ugly.

My kitchen is not a place to live in. I made it white so I can tell instantly if it's not clean-and I like it clean enough to be able to eat off the floors-or the tables,for that matter.

If I'm not working, I don't know what to do.

Someday I'm going to go onstage in a dress if I want to.

Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse.

I think basically an actor is a salesman.

I don't understand why people don't remember my name.

Women are my best friends, my best audience. If I look out from the stage and see a lot of men, I know I'm in trouble

The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.

We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the insanity.

I think someone's sexual orientation is great fodder for gossip. But again, it's non-news to me or anyone who knows me.

I've spent hundreds of days on commercial sets in the last ten years. If I didn't learn something along the way, I wasn't paying very close attention.

I feel like the places where I like to live, or study, or visit are places where people's differences are celebrated rather than just tolerated.

The main goal in any criminal statute is to produce what's best for the victim. And sometimes, a mandatory minimum doesn't accomplish that.

I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible.

This is the province that pioneered dreaming big.

As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.

Mr. Anwar is a respected colleague and a man of integrity, who in his capacity as finance minister showed strong dedication to enhancing the financial well-being of the Malaysian people.

Almost every actor goes into almost every picture very frightened. He is positive he really can't do it. The bigger the star, the more frightened he is.

I don't like movies that are morally simple.

I've rarely met couples who - they both love to do everything together.

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.

I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.

There isn't a single one of us who hasn't harvested either the positive or negative effects of a simple choice of behavior.

I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.

I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop.

And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?

When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.

Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.

And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be...

There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.

I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back.

But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.

I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.

Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.

Drugs had shown me little bits here and there-they had rolled across the carpet once or twice, but I had been able to get them out of my mind.

Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time.