Paul Dini Quotes

Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It's the only place they feel comfortable. It's the only time they feel like they're being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.

Paul Dini

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• I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Tired
  • Administration

• To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Country
  • Power
  • Running

• Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.

  

  Barret Oliver
  • Character
  • Want
  • Myself

• On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Internet
  • Information

• Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Together

• I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Mother
  • Hand
  • Now

• I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.

  

  Dana Plato
  • You
  • Working
  • Pleasure

• There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Characters
  • Cash
  • Bitcoin

• From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Time
  • Always
  • Neck

• I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • World
  • Writing
  • Night

• Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • World
  • Political
  • Change

• Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Speak
  • Name
  • Grass

• Downloading songs is not good.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Good
  • Songs
  • Downloading

• As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Girl
  • Stone
  • Recall

• I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Fight
  • Vacation
  • Much

• From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Learning
  • Year
  • Research

• We are confident that the Islamic logic, culture, and discourse can prove their superiority in all fields over all schools of thought and theories.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Culture
  • Logic
  • Islamic

• 'There is no situation so bad that the cops can't make it worse.'

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Bad

• The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Church
  • Brain

• We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

  

  E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Education
  • Air

• When it comes to creativity and to leadership, we need introverts doing what they do best.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Leadership
  • Creativity

• There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own field the biochemist Fritz Lipmann or the much maligned Linus Pauling were very talented people. But generally, geniuses everywhere seem to have died out by 1914. Today, most are mediocrities blown up by the winds of the time.

  

  Erwin Chargaff
  • Created
  • Mechanism
  • Winds

• Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It's the only place they feel comfortable. It's the only time they feel like they're being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.

  

  Paul Dini
  • Creativity
  • Comfortable
  • Mechanism