L.A. Paul Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Daft as a brush? I'm daft, but I'm not daft as a brush!

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

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

The real danger with debt is what happens if lots of people decide, or are forced, to pay it off at the same time.

If you like cats and have some, you get kittens; and if you like kittens and enjoy having them about, they grow up and you get more cats.

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 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.

The mountain represents your purpose in life. You and your people will enjoy the greatest success and satisfaction if you relentlessly pursue your purpose.

To show a well-founded fear of persecution, an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.

We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.

The planet will continue to cook.

I don't want a job in the administration; I think I'm more effective carping from the sidelines.

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.

Things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.

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

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.

Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.

Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.

Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.

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.

You can't love nature with a gun

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.

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.

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

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

We should listen to both philosophers and scientists, because the philosophical contribution is different from the scientific contribution, and both of them are worthwhile.

Philosophers, especially metaphysicians, explore features of reality and of our mental life that are different from those explored by scientists.

We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.

The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.

My father knew all about this stuff [C.W. Leadbeater]. I owe a lot of what I'm doing, I think, to him. I'm sort of continuing my father's work.

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.

In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it

I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in the role of choreographer in a way, worrying about physical movement and such.

My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.

Focus on the opportunities, not on the constraints.

I love Madonna. She is the only woman I have asked to marry me. She refused, of course.

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.

With pencil there is a tendency to be timid, either using very faint lines or erasing bad lines... Line sketching tends to emphasize the structure of a drawing rather than the nuances of media.

We hear things, but we can't always see them, or, even if we do see them, we're not sure that we're seeing correctly. Hence: Invisible.

I don't want to be the honored guest. I want to be the invisible person.

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

I went to tranny bars and kind of got used to being around that and then getting dressed up.

Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.