John Paul DeJoria Quotes
My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the 'L.A. Examiner.' Get up at 4 o'clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school.
Quotes to Explore
-
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
-
There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
-
I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
-
There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
-
When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
-
Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
-
I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
-
There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
-
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
-
I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
-
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
-
I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
-
I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
-
The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
-
The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
-
I gave a Christmas party last year - well, two Christmases ago - where I did a Sam Cooke show. I didn't perform as R. Kelly. I performed the Sam Cooke show from 1964, when he performed at the Copacabana.
-
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
-
I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
-
In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
-
I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine.
-
I love 'True Blood!'
-
I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.
-
I think it is wrong to spend $4 or $5 million in a campaign.
-
My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the 'L.A. Examiner.' Get up at 4 o'clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school.
