Paul Weller Quotes

I take my hat off to people like the Stones, but it's not for me. I couldn't do that. Jagger is brilliant and long may he rock. I couldn't make my career out of old songs; it would do my head in.

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• I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Inspiration
  • Movies
  • Video

• I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • Regret
  • Questions

• My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Dad
  • Die
  • Mad

• I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Silence

• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Age
  • Ideas
  • Class

• When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • School
  • Thing
  • Athletics

• I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • World
  • Work
  • Why

• I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • People
  • Good
  • Alone

• With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Sadness

• Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Precedes

• I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Music
  • Attention

• I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Why
  • Success
  • Day

• In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Important
  • Business
  • Know

• Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • People
  • Love
  • Give

• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Circle
  • Round
  • Praised

• I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • People
  • Know
  • Inside

• I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Me
  • Lucky
  • Diagnosed

• I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • People
  • College
  • Year

• My favorite films left the camera rest, and the actors and characters have a stage to act. Move the camera when it's motivating.

  

  Kelly Asbury
  • Rest

• You know, I understand that a lot of people, especially up north, put fruits and nuts in their stuffing, which is good, but for myself personally, I love an old-timey savory dressing.

  

  Paula Deen
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The basis on which the Good Friday agreement was constructed was in addressing those problems in the history of Northern Ireland, the social and constitutional problems as well as the military problems that have been unaddressed for centuries.

  

  John Reid KC and the Sunshine Band
  • Good
  • History
  • Military

• Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.

  

  Klaus Schulze Ash Ra Tempel
  • Music
  • Dance

• When I approach any script, I always try to find what I would relate to most in it.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

• I take my hat off to people like the Stones, but it's not for me. I couldn't do that. Jagger is brilliant and long may he rock. I couldn't make my career out of old songs; it would do my head in.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • People
  • Long
  • May