L.A. Paul Quotes
Time, time, time, see what's become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.
Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.
It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Will you stand up an fight? he wondered bitterly. Or do you intend to remain on your knees for ever?
People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.
When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they already know.
I'm a firm believer that all sports will eventually be global. Someday, we may have a quarterback from China named Yao Fling.
A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't enough to get the results they want
It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.
Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.
Loneliness in travel directs you and tells you about yourself. You don't become lonely unless you're alone.
For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.
I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.
The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.
Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.
In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject.
Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.
Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.
Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they’re more likely to pick themselves up and try again.
Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.
Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.
Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.
America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.
There's such an emphasis on making money that we've really taken the humanity out of business.