Paul Weller Quotes

I never saw myself as a spokesman for a generation. It was all a bit heavy for me. I saw myself as a songwriter and wrote for myself, which I still do, and I also wanted to communicate with my audience.

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• Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Live
  • Small
  • City

• We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Look

• I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Want
  • Respect
  • Need

• To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Cat

• Trends don't interest me.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Me
  • Interest
  • Trends

• I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Money
  • Free
  • Value

• I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to Heaven, no one will be able to say, 'I merited this.'

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Believe
  • Heaven
  • Human

• I can't hold a grudge anyway.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Hold
  • Grudge
  • Anyway

• I can't tell you how many times I've gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That's how it goes in my house, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Home
  • House
  • Present

• There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Money
  • Success
  • Feeling

• Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Book
  • Well
  • Memoir

• I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Better

• Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Age
  • Space
  • Red

• I think the more yellows, the more lights, the better. It alerts everybody. I mean, I guess I'm always a little bit afraid when the yellow comes out, we all get out of it, that someone won't notice it, pile into the back of you.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Think
  • Better
  • Lights

• Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Done
  • Help
  • Lies

• I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Believe
  • Serious
  • Prison

• I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• The criteria of art are the imponderable, the immeasurable.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • Art

• What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • Insurance

• My uncle is a mechanic, and I wish I had paid more attention, but I never did.

  

  Lucas Till
  • Attention
  • Wish
  • Uncle

• Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

  

  Jane Seymour
  • Art
  • Character
  • Movie

• Life is full of horrible mistakes.

  

  Louis C. K.
  • Life

• I have twins. They are 4 years old. They know the word 'concert,' so they know father's job is 'concert,' and they prefer concert over father.

  

  Psy
  • Job
  • Father

• I never saw myself as a spokesman for a generation. It was all a bit heavy for me. I saw myself as a songwriter and wrote for myself, which I still do, and I also wanted to communicate with my audience.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito