L.A. Paul Quotes

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary.

The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.

We all know that looking back only gets you into an accident because you're going to run into something without seeing it.

If you're happy with what you're doing, then you don't get bored.

What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.

Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.

Essentially the soul of the planet is being controlled by corporations.

I think the internet and the web is just like a big consciousness of the planet, a big brain of the planet.

The remix culture became very much controlled by the corporate world, it's a marketing tool mostly, to create mixes for different genres. So it's very soul-less in a way.

I hate bananas. I just hate them. But I also think a banana suit is the funniest fruit costume a person can wear.

I just hope when my body goes, or when my mind does, I have the guts to end it the way Hemingway did. I don't want anybody wiping drool off my chin.

You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.

It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.

The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.

I am quite happy to take a cut. You've got to, if you want to work and continue working.

I love looking after animals. I find it very enjoyable.

My motto has always been that anybody can do it better than me.

If I find a great idea, I work on it at the beginning, then bring in other people to make things work. Actually, I've always been good at getting out of work.

There's no point in bragging in the good times. Your friends don't need to hear it and your enemies won't believe it anyway.

Many of the passages that describe the millennial kingdom also, in continuity, describe the new heaven and the new earth the eternal state.

The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led.

The Celtics don't celebrate anything but championships.

Listening and talking to my teammates has helped me learn the NBA game. I know that talent can only take you so far.

Children in a third world country. That's how we spread democracy.

I just want to keep creating stuff, work regularly and learn how to use a computer properly.

There are times when product is more important than people and sometimes the people are more important than the product.

The really blisteringly original games are incredibly simple.

We're in a situation now where fewer and fewer small films get made. People want these big giant tentpole sort of things, and I don't know, it's getting harder and harder to make a small movie.

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.

My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.

Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person, self-employed.

Artists make art... everyone else talks about it.

I'm very proud of my pro-life record, and I've always adopted the idea that, the position that the method of conception doesn't change the definition of life.

I believe in a free society, where aspiration and effort can make the difference in every life. Where your starting point is not your destiny and where your first chance is not your only chance.

We invent our technologies and then we turn around and use our technologies to reinvent ourselves as individuals, communities and cultures.

Reasonable men are not reasonable when you're in the bubbles which have characterized capitalism since the beginning of time.

Investing is like waiting for paint dry and grass grow so. If you like fun, let handle 800 USD and headed to Las Vegas

The consumer, so it is said, is the king each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done.

It isn't that greed's increased. What's increased is the realization that you've got a free field to reach out for what you'd like to do.

We are like highly trained athletes, who never run a race.

I couldn't reconcile what I was being taught at the university of Chicago, the lectures and the books I was being assigned, with what I knew to be true out in the streets.

Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive.

Traveller, let your step be light, So that sleep these eyes may close, For poor Scarron, till to-night, Ne'er was able e'en to doze.

The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.

There's no escape. I'm God's only man.

Anything that doesn't bore me I think is doable because it's keeping me awake.

I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting.