Paul Weller Quotes

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.

Paul Weller Incognito

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• For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.

  

  Haley Webb
  • Black
  • Myself
  • Woman

• There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Future
  • Successful

• I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Way
  • Better

• I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Body
  • Hollywood
  • Actress

• I like to laugh and make people have fun.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Fun
  • Laugh

• We are seeing entrepreneurs issuing their own blockchain-based tokens to raise money for their networks, sidestepping the traditional, exclusive world of venture capital altogether. The importance of this cannot be overstated - in this new world, there are no companies, just protocols.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • World
  • Money
  • Seeing

• What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Power
  • Kind
  • Corrupt

• I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Important
  • Children

• Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work.

  

  Carl Honore
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage-an inexorable demand-that we should cease to kill our fellow-creatures for satisfaction of our bodily wants.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Spiritual
  • Progress

• If you have not noticed, we are preparing for war. I’m sorry if that inconveniences you.

  

  Tad Williams
  • War
  • Sorry

• At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • World
  • Great
  • Important

• Oh, poverty parts good company.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Good
  • Poverty

• Bdelycleon: It is so that you may know only those who nourish you (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • May

• Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Criticism

• Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

  

  Bruce Lee

• I do know in the 1960s comics, Martian Manhunter took on the form of a black man - that could have been influenced by the political climate back then.

  

  David Harewood
  • Political
  • Black

• I never hitched my wagon to anyone, so what I achieved over the years was done with only my results on the field.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Done

• The way to plan the family is natural family planning, not contraception...This (use of contraceptives) turns the attention to self and so it destroys the gift of love in him or her. In loving, the husband and wife must turn the attention to each other as happens in natural family planning, and not to self, as happens in contraception. Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows easily . . . And abortion, which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• My parents were the exact opposite of stage parents. They did everything in their power to keep it from happening. But it was going to happen no matter what. I was like, 'Thanks for raising me, but I'm going to take it from here.'

  

  Jennifer Lawrence
  • Power
  • Parents
  • Thanks

• That's my life. But I don't glorify violence, and I hate jail. The rap game saved me, man: I've got three children, and I wouldn't even think of putting my hand in somebody's pocket or doing something stupid now.

  

  Black Rob
  • Children
  • Game
  • Violence

• I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito