Paul Schrader (Paul Joseph Schrader) Quotes

Anything that doesn't bore me I think is doable because it's keeping me awake.

Paul Schrader

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• I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.

  

  Sam Childers
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Way
  • Say
  • Uncles

• When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Happened
  • Before
  • Punk

• It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Country
  • City
  • Cool

• Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Saying

• You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • You
  • Personality
  • Take

• Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you have to know a great deal of information about an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Writing so much text is difficult, but doing all the background research seems impossible.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Job

• Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.

  

  Doris Day
  • Animal
  • Sin
  • Killing

• We were trying to do as much science as we could because that was the main purpose of the international space station. But without the shuttle to bring up heavy laboratory equipment and bring back samples, we were limited by what we could do, but I was proud that we actually accomplished more science that was planned for the flight. And I got a chance to do two Russian spacewalks on that flight, I had become an expert in U.S. spacewalks and using U.S. suits and techniques, and this was a chance to put on a Russian Orlan suit and do two construction space flights outside of the space station.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Science

• If we don’t risk being hurt, we cannot give unconditional love. Unconditional love gives others the right to hurt us.

  

  John Bevere
  • Giving
  • Risk
  • Hurt

• We understand that the Iranian position is very bad because of the well-known sanctions against that country, and it would be unfair to leave it on this sanction level.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Country
  • Position
  • Levels

• As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Art
  • Lying
  • Compliment

• It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Strange
  • Faces
  • Stills

• A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.

  

  William Allingham
  • Men
  • Book
  • Forget

• My empathy for poor people comes from having been one of them for so long, from knowing that their humanity is more complex and that the truths of their suffering have to be told honestly.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Suffering
  • Humanity
  • Poor

• My goal is to become Canada's first multicultural prime minister and represent the changing face of Canada.

  

  Niki Ashton
  • Face
  • Canada
  • Multicultural

• I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around 1 pm I'm home and do music the rest of the day.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• Anything that doesn't bore me I think is doable because it's keeping me awake.

  

  Paul Schrader
  • Awake
  • Keeping
  • Bore