David Pajo Quotes
My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
-
Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
-
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
-
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
-
I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
-
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
-
From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
-
A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
-
It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
-
I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned performance a little more than that.
-
Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
-
I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important.
-
According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father.
-
All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
-
In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.
-
For an impression, I just find that I can do a lot of the people I love without much research, because I've already watched hours and hours of them on video and it seeped into my brain while I wasn't thinking about it.
-
This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
-
Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food.
-
We use competitive markets to arrange for delivery of our food supply.
-
Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.
-
I've come to appreciate how special a song is compared to other art forms, because you can carry it around in your head and your heart, and it remains part of you. It just comes as natural as a bird to me, always did. It's the way singer-songwriters make sense of our lives.
-
The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.
-
You spend so much time in a studio writing for other people, you forget you sing, you know?
-
My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.
