L.A. Paul Quotes

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids who really take it in the groin.

This is not mathematics; this is theology.

Mice deficient in this protein, called p11, display depression-like behaviors, while those with sufficient amounts behave as if they have been treated with antidepressants.

When the uniqueness of a place sings to us like a melody, then we will know, at last, what it means to be home

It does not matter how many talents we have, what matters is how we use them.

I've lived in America for many years. I mean, I love being a Canadian, but I truly identify with America. I love America so much.

If everyone thinks you have a good idea, you´re too late

I'm so proud to be Canadian. I've been to 58 countries, and they're wonderful countries, but Canada is the best.

My feeling is, music is a more eloquent international language than Coca-Cola or McDonalds.

Imagine how foolish you would feel if you didn't try only because someone said you're a lunatic.

We have to be careful not to let our game not be the game we know it should be.

It’s still there, same as it ever was. But we see it differently as we get older.

The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson, who became U.S. President when John Kennedy was assassinated. He exulted in this power and liked to inspire fear.

Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them.

One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.

In the end, rational policy is always good.

[Ronald Reagan] called the image of [George] Washington praying on his knees in Valley Forge "the most sublime image in American history."

The world we are in today is likely to end catastrophically, as many other human worlds have done before.

To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.

In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets lost very quickly, and I have to look for new ways.

If the guy that writes you checks says cut your hair, off to the barber shop you go. That's that.

Under the gold standard America had no major financial panics other than in 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1907, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933.

When stock prices are rising, it's called ''momentum investing''; when they are falling, it's called ''panic.''

You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor.

Please yourself, not others... It must first work for you if it is ever to be useful to others.

But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.

In hard times, beauty can seem frivolous - but take it away, and all you're left with is hard times.

We tear ourselves inside out for something the world may love, then base our worth on that.

Our job is to translate the lies, deceit, and anxiety that poisons our cultural water supply into an understandable form that we can digest.

Every Canadian who wants to learn should have the opportunity to do so.

Since one never knows what will be the line of advance, it is always most rash to condemn what is not quite in the fashion of the moment.

If you cast wrong, you are in a lot of trouble.

Everything that exists is created first in the imagination, and secondly in reality, through activity.

I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.

There is good and bad in everyone.

I think globally and act locally.

Lyricists play with words.

I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all. I'm still planning to write better songs.

I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.

She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?

No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.

I'm not a great practiser at all. We were never great practisers. The Beatles would come together for about a day before we had a tour, to make sure the amp worked.

I think the French girls are fabulous.

Jet, I can almost remember their funny faces

It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.

You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology