DJ Paul Quotes

Journalists should be people in whom there is at least a flicker of hope.

Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses.

Race is a part of every conversation in America, whether you know it or not.

Those who don't set goals in life end up being controlled by those who do.

I was always busy doing something, being an only child.

There were neighbors that I played with and did all the things that children do. I did mow the lawn. I did help with various things that needed to be done to occupy my time.

I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art program.

At home, the radio was a big source and the classic radio programs we would listen to like Amos and Andy and whatever other ones there were.

It [piano lessons] wasn't a priority, but it was an interest and through that I became acquainted with classical music, which was a main interest at the time.

There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around doing nothing.

Fortunately, I had cousins who lived in Buffalo and would often go to visit them, which I loved to do because I liked Buffalo as it was a big city. Even today, the bigger the city, the better.

Even today, the bigger the city, the better. That's why I live in New York.

Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching.

I know that I was conscious of all the aspects of the war, having had cousins who were in the army, who would send me notes and memorabilia. I began to collect things that they would send me.

Upon graduation, in the yearbook I was voted "Most likely to succeed." which I know was credited to my artistic achievements.

Being born in '31 was during the Depression and in my earlier youth World War II took place - so it was not the best of times, and yet I don't recall ever having experiences that were a burden.

I was there [in school] the full time with one teacher, and the student body was never more than 10 or 12 students of all ages.

I developed friends in the community that were in walking distance or a bicycle ride away, so that I socialized and did a lot of things that children do in their early years.

Going back to the elementary school days, I was always drawing. I entered a Victory poster competition and won the top award that recognized my artistic instincts.

I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up.

At school there were some programs in music. I did take piano lessons, and we had a piano at home. I got very interested in that.

The pastors and ministry leaders came away energized to have voter registration drives at their churches and motivated to encourage their congregations to "vote their values."

I don't know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven't heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of the jazz world.

Once I leave the studio I'm ready to do the next thing. There are records I made that I haven't heard.

I use a lot of double-tonguing [using the tongue to control airflow]; that allows me to play as fast as if I was slurring, but with clean articulation on every note.

I have heard that the most valuable thing in today's world, postindustrial world, is the human being's attention and how to get it.

To make America great is about, hey, this country's in trouble. By doing things the old-fashioned way, I'm going to bring in people, deal-makers, who know how to change things dramatically.

Donald Trump says he'll cut taxes and that will make the more productive members of our society more productive still and that he'd create more jobs.

One guy can't create a field, but you can get people thinking.

A lot of people think, particularly the people who have benefited, that they're entitled to the fruits of their abilities, their labor.

People see me in powerful roles. That's what people want to see. That's what I want to do.

Where the material is, that's where you go. I'm a workman: I go to work. I've done movies for nothing, literally nothing; I did 'Last I Heard' for next to nothing.

Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.

For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe.

Growing the mycelium of the Chaga mushroom under laboratory conditions provides an ecologically friendly alternative supply of this unique medicinal mushroom.

If we're lucky we realize that life is really about family - your children, your family and your friends. Without that, the rest is hollow.

We are still not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame but there are 3,000 Kiss products, a Kiss musical toothbrush, everything from Kiss caskets to Kiss condoms. There are no Radiohead condoms.

I am one of the biggest Laura Nyro fans. I still listen to that stuff incessantly. Laura Nyro does not belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Songwriter Hall of Fame? Absolutely.

I tend to fly a bit under the radar.

In terms of merchandise, you can't force anyone to buy something.

The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color.

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.

Gene sometimes... well, he has his dream list.

You have to put your body on the line from time to time in order to make a statement or change a law.

What's to be the reason for becoming man and wife, is it love that brings you here, or love that gives you life?

Woman draws her life from man and gives it back again, and there is love.

To be a photographer you must have something to say about the world.

If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.

Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws of photography... you have produced something that is dead. (1923)