Paul Mooney (Paul Gladney) Quotes

c is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

Paul Mooney

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• Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Mean
  • Living
  • Tradition

• Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

  

  Edmond Halley
  • May
  • Gods
  • Approach

• This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.

  

  H. L. Hunt
  • Man
  • Fifty
  • Loveliness

• I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Think
  • Politics

• A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Work
  • Great
  • Sometimes

• We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Peace
  • Belief
  • Building

• Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Moving
  • Body
  • Path

• It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Up
  • Book
  • Growing

• I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of the Internet.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Artist
  • Internet
  • Generation

• The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

  

  Alan Turing
  • Done
  • May

• I don't know who had it out for me, but somebody did.

  

  Jim McMahon

• Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that storytelling isn't just necessarily about filmmaking.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Great

• But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

  

  Payne Stewart
  • Friends
  • Game
  • Golf

• We wanted to do something different and have a surprise release. At first, naturally, the label was getting a little scared about that, because they wanna sell records, and a surprise release means it might not go as quickly.

  

  Johnny Christ
  • Different

• The days of dictatorship are over. … We have come a long way. Millions of Egyptians and Iraqis have cast their votes at the ballot box. The Palestinians will follow suit.

  

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali
  • Long

• Sooner or later, each desire must encounter its lassitude: its truth...

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Truth
  • Desire

• Once while waiting at Auckland airport, Lange insisted on buying himself a newspaper and joined a queue at a newsstand. The woman in front of him turned around and said, 'Good God!' Lange replied affably, 'No madam, you are mistaken. I have never made that claim.'

  

  David Lange
  • Good
  • God
  • Waiting

• I dropped out of college and ended up making this feature film I wrote when I was 19 with some friends. It was terrible.

  

  Jason Woliner
  • Up
  • Friends
  • College

• I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Important
  • Gender
  • Other

• The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that it excluded domestic workers or agricultural workers, you might not see race in it, unless you knew that that covered a huge chunk of African Americans, particularly in the South.

  

  Barack Obama
  • True
  • Law
  • Race

• I see someone like John Williams, the classical player, and the amount of discipline and the natural ability that man has is so frightening. That requires so much natural talent. And I think my talent came from just practising, and I feel a bit intimidated when I see players that good.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Player

• c is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

  

  Paul Mooney
  • Speech
  • Insanity