Paul Banks Quotes

In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.

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• I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Water

• I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!

  

  Kat Graham
  • Want
  • Cooking
  • Arts

• Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Control
  • Give
  • Potential

• You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Time
  • Crazy

• I don't want to get fat.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Want
  • Get
  • Fat

• For myself, the way that I learned comedy was doing it live for four years, and only after doing sketch for four years did I feel confident enough to be like, 'Okay, I feel good about starting to put stuff on the Internet where it lives forever.' As opposed to one time at a college sketch show where it bombs and we never speak of it again.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Time
  • Good
  • Live

• As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Live
  • Want
  • Kind

• I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Progress

• I always try to write the best I can.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Best
  • Try
  • I Can

• Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Time
  • Want

• You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can't pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a way to derail reform.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Law
  • Security
  • Immigration

• I really love 'America's Next Top Model.' I'm always tweeting about it, and people are like, 'You need to get a life!' Any time I do a photo shoot, I always think, 'What would Tyra say?'

  

  Carly Chaikin
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Even such is time, that takes in trustOur youth, our joys, our all we have,And pays us but with age and dust;Who in the dark and silent grave,When we have wandered all our ways,Shuts up the story of our days.But from this earth, this grave, this dust,My God shall raise me up, I trust!

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• I would be a drudge now, among the tents, and I would kneel before the warriors, and run from them when they shouted at me. I would be a woman, as women were reckoned in this place, a half-souled, witless animal, created to bear and pleasure men: an afterthought of the god.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• If power means having control over one's own life, then perhaps there is no better ranking of the impact of sex roles and racism on power over our own lives than life expectancy.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Power
  • Control

• Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Farewell

• Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Time
  • Knowledge

• Home is the center of life. It's the wellspring of personhood. It's where we say we're ourselves.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Life
  • Home

• Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• I don't want to be treated like I came from another planet or something or was somehow born with some weird birthright or super power. I don't view myself that way. I am a normal guy, picking up the crap from the dog and scraping the BBQ and having a beer and fixing the shed out back.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • Up
  • Power
  • Guy

• God calls us first... not to a platform, but to an altar!

  

  J. D. Greear
  • God

• Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Simplicity
  • Selfishness

• I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.

  

  Om Puri
  • Character
  • Film
  • Everyone

• In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.

  

  Paul Banks Interpol
  • Done
  • Spiritual
  • Happens