Paul Weller Quotes
Most people my age, their musical life ended in the '80s. They stick with what they know. But my tastes are much broader. And I don't want to stop learning.
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Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
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I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.
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Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao was one of the worst boxing matches I've ever seen, but millions of people watched it because of the personalities involved.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.
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We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.
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I have always thought of myself as an athlete - even at the ripe old age of 52.
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In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue, but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
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Listen to and sing the music of heaven.
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We are an army of dreamers, and that's why we're invincible.
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Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.
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Most people my age, their musical life ended in the '80s. They stick with what they know. But my tastes are much broader. And I don't want to stop learning.
