Billy Paul Quotes

All my life, I wanted to sound like myself. I never wanted to sound like anybody else.

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• We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • School
  • Kids
  • Hope

• One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • American
  • Alone
  • Dark

• Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Men
  • Quotation

• When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Impossible
  • Task

• Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Moment
  • Become
  • Significance

• My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Kind
  • Attitude
  • Enthusiasm

• When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Think
  • Confidence
  • Dance

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Done

• Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • Business
  • War

• Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Heart
  • Beauty
  • Beholder

• I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Think

• To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Creation
  • Step
  • Destroy

• The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Great
  • War
  • China

• You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Time
  • You
  • Right

• I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Believe
  • Woman
  • Murder

• Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Women
  • Kind
  • Movies

• No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Country
  • Know
  • Nothing

• I am not quick to call someone a friend. It is OK to have acquaintances and be associates. We make these words sound bad, but it is about understanding everyone's place in your life. I have a great group of people around me. I value them more than anything.

  

  Karen Civil
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• I'd say that on 'Friends' my character was the guy bouncing around the room. I'm no longer that guy, necessarily, in my life. I used to be. But I'm not now.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Life
  • Character
  • Friends

• When it comes to anything you want to do in your life, you have to be passionate. Success may come, but in the end, the most important thing is that you are doing what you really want to do.

  

  Chiara Ferragni
  • Life
  • Important
  • May

• When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Old

• People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • People
  • Looking
  • Perfection

• All my life, I wanted to sound like myself. I never wanted to sound like anybody else.

  

  Billy Paul
  • Life