Paul Sparks Quotes

When I got out of school, I just started doing plays of the off-off-Broadway route, and for many years, that's what I did, slowly doing work in tiny theaters, building relationships with people in the business. It's not a showy story.

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• In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Spanish
  • Court
  • Jews

• I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Long
  • Why

• I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Me
  • Connection
  • Kid

• Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Ocean

• Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Today
  • Best
  • Present

• Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?

  

  Feist
  • Know
  • Saying
  • Opinions

• Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Mean
  • Language
  • Dreams

• One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Alone

• Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Death
  • Kind
  • Going

• Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • May
  • Star
  • Moon

• I even done a doo-wop version of the Mickey Mouse march.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Done
  • March
  • Mickey Mouse

• I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Kind
  • Seeing
  • Egypt

• When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • New
  • New York
  • Teenager

• Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Real
  • Remember
  • War

• I don't think about people watching me on TV. I think it would stress me out.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Think
  • Stress

• Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Reality
  • Me
  • Social

• Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Want

• 'The Dante Club' was one of America's most important book clubs, as their Wednesday night meetings ultimately led to our country's first exposure to Dante's poetry on a wide scale.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Important
  • Country
  • Book

• I love to walk into places and have what I think is, like, the prettiest, smartest wife in town. I kind of enjoy that.

  

  James Carville
  • Wife

• No voters will be left behind.

  

  Donna Brazile

• Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Die

• I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Guy
  • Free
  • College

• I worked with Marlon Wayans on the show 'They Wayans Brothers,' and we hit it off. One thing about Marlon, when he casts a movie or a TV show, he expects you to bring it. You've got to be ready to improv, because Marlon will say anything, and you've got to be ready to come back.

  

  Kym Whitley
  • Movie

• When I got out of school, I just started doing plays of the off-off-Broadway route, and for many years, that's what I did, slowly doing work in tiny theaters, building relationships with people in the business. It's not a showy story.

  

  Paul Sparks
  • Business
  • Relationships
  • Plays