DJ Paul Quotes

Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.

I don't really think in terms of genre, I think in terms of story and character.

At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I'm from New Jersey.

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

Persistence and love of one's work is the key.

There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads turned backwards.

In your 20s, you're checking your bank account to make sure you're not broke. In your 30s, you're looking at yourself and realizing you're broken.

Donald Trump pulled off an amazing political feat. He deserves tremendous credit for that.

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.

It's no coincidence that trust in government is at an all-time low now that the size of government is at an all-time high.

Leaking classified information is a crime. And if we have evidence that somebody in the executive branch is committing a crime, we should prosecute that person.

I think [Donald Trump] is now talking about engaging in countries on a bilateral basis.

I do politics in order to do policy.

I think it's important to not have some sort of one-size-fits-all program in Washington, which has downsides, like killing entry-level jobs. But pulling people into the workforce...

People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, 'Just criticize and don't do anything and let's win by default.' That's ridiculous.

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.

Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you.

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans’ fears about the future.

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

I worry about a society that can remember everything.

Perhaps there really are managers who can outperform the market consistently - logic would suggest that they exist. But they are remarkably well-hidden.

Man does not live by GNP alone.

I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.

Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk.

God walked down the stairs of heaven with a Baby in His arms.

To take all that we are and have and hand it over to God may not be easy; but it can be done; and when it is done, the world has in it one less candidate for misery.

Don't ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you.

Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.

Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!

I decided a long time ago I didn't want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I don't think it's a good idea to wave personality about like a flag and become labeled.

Oh, I suppose my wife and I will open a bottle of champagne with another couple.

A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

Your job as a leader is to try to inspire them to do more work than they've ever done in their life under conditions that they can't imagine.

Beauty is the love that we devote to an object.

Life is nutty; anything can happen.

Strategy is not focused on ROI, but on winning.

I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.

People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence.

A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time

The phrasing didn't work as well.

I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.

I don't think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn't really escape the influence.

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.