Paul Banks Quotes

It's not like changing one word with my lyrics is going to make them more intelligible or relatable. I was always very misunderstood and taken as very pretentious and serious all the time. I would think, "Do you not see there's a lot of tongue-in-cheek and humor here?"

Paul Banks Interpol

• Serious
• Misunderstood
• Pretentious
• Relatable

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• I've directed independent film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Film
  • Independent
  • Directed

• We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Peace
  • Religion
  • Harmony

• Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Good
  • Man
  • Doubt

• I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Trying
  • Value
  • Moon

• Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • Important
  • Live

• Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Space
  • Fashion
  • Architecture

• Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.

  

  Hall Caine
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Church

• I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• People used to think of me as a comedy actor.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Time
  • Me
  • Experiences

• The culture means the younger generation respecting the OGs, but at the same time, bringing it all to the older generation to where they can relate.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Generation

• I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• There are boxing fans, and there are fans of the UFC. People want to see blood, but people like both.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Want
  • Boxing

• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Process

• I try to be a good father, and my kids are the most important thing in my life.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

  

  Omar Epps
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• I want to be treated like a musician.

  

  Halsey
  • Want
  • Like
  • Musician

• I know dozens of authors who have had a lot of books published by New York, and they won't ever take another Big 6 contract since they've gotten a taste of the freedom, control, and money self-publishing offers.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Control

• I think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them.

  

  George Benson
  • Night
  • Musician
  • Crowd

• Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Man
  • Determination
  • Quiet

• 'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Reality
  • Film

• I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.

  

  NeNe Leakes
  • Women
  • Success
  • Reality

• If you go off into general-interest magazines, often women are being shoved aside into various ghettos that perpetuate the problem. Women's interests are specialized, they're secondary; they're somewhere over to the side of the serious work that's being done. Throughout history, there have been ladies' magazines, ladies' journals, and for years there have been women writers who would refuse to participate in women-only sort projects because of that stigma.

  

  Erin Belieu
  • Problem
  • Serious
  • Interest

• It's not like changing one word with my lyrics is going to make them more intelligible or relatable. I was always very misunderstood and taken as very pretentious and serious all the time. I would think, "Do you not see there's a lot of tongue-in-cheek and humor here?"

  

  Paul Banks Interpol
  • Serious
  • Misunderstood
  • Pretentious