DJ Paul Quotes

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

When you are faced with an important decision, be sure that your choice will lead you nearer to Christ.

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

Do you not realise that dance is the pure act of metamorphosis?

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry.

Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices

We must always apologize for talking painting.

Sometimes I think and other times I am.

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.

I have my own charity organization in Berlin called Ruckenwind, which supports kids from - ya - not ideal backgrounds.

A flat black bug, that is London.

Television exposes the world to the accident. The world is exposed to accidents through television.

Sovereignty no longer resides in the territory itself, but in the control of the territory. And localisation is an inherent part of that territorial control.

The creation of a virtual image is a form of accident. This explains why virtual reality is a cosmic accident. It's the accident of the real.

The media is more concerned with what we feel about the refugees and so on rather than what we think about them.

A museum of accidents is needed. This museum already exists, it's television.

We have already seen some instances of systemic risk in recent times in the Asian financial crisis. But what sparked off the Asian financial crisis? Automated trading programmes!

I pursue through my research on speed and on my study of the organisation of the revolution of the means of transportation.

The Internet is no longer the kind of thing where only six guys in the world can build it. Now, you can write a couple of checks and get one of your own.

If, at the end of the day, we need to raise taxes, we should raise taxes.

To know that there's a good chance that this is something that could potentially be around well after I leave this planet... it's a good feeling.

There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.

People are concerned over safety and spillage, especially for the workers. Were all really hopeful even though we remain deeply concerned over the safety and the efficacy of an unproven technology.

North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish stocks.

You can't love nature with a gun

Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues.

There is no sustainable future for fisheries as long as human populations continue to increase.

I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really.

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.

I really enjoy playing America. I like the audiences there. It's the home of a lot of music I grew up with.

There's this British elegance that we, at times, have really missed in the States. We've always been more of a sportswear culture.

When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble.

I still want to do what I want to do, but we also have to think about some sense of protecting the business that's out there as well.

You do your runway show, and it's all over the Internet before I see anything on there.

It can get boring. Not the playing the songs necessarily, or doing the clothes. You know, you need stimulus.

It is nice to make a record and people like it, and it's encouraging.

Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives.

We can remake the world daily.

Without trying, I'm different.

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?

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.