Paul Rodgers Quotes
The one thing I loved about blues and soul was the way they taught the world how to express such deep feelings.
Quotes to Explore
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Clinton was super attuned to other people to the point where he talks about feeling other people's pain. Clinton is probably the most buoyant, resilient person in American political history.
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I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.
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Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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In late January 2016, as quoted in 'The Obama Doctrine' by Jeffrey Goldberg, in The Atlantic (April 2016)
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I would enjoy doing what cats do: singing, sleeping, and licking my nuts.
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The one thing I loved about blues and soul was the way they taught the world how to express such deep feelings.
