DJ Paul Quotes
Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little - or there are many fools.
But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.
It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.
Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken.
In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting.
Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows.
For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.
I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer.
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.
Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money.
What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation.
A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.
There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.
Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.
When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.
You'd be safe to hold 5% of your assets and savings in gold and silver. Insurance for the future.
If Shakespeare had been in pro basketball, he never would have had time to write his soliloquies. He would have always been on a plane between Phoenix and Kansas City.
You ought to be able to make a nice profit and also do something to change the world.
I'd been through crappy day jobs and stupid garage bands. I was determined to make it as a musician.
The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.
With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.
The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.
Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.
I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!
Management philosophy: Pay attention to the vital fiew and ignore the trivial many. I could go insane if I obsessed over every little details of all my companies.
People like to see human error when it’s honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you.
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.
There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.
The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?
But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend.
You learn, right, a lot of people's problems - why they get upset, why they get down, why they turn to drink - is because they can't say one word and it's N-O, no.
