Paul Kantner Quotes

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

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• It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Important
  • Why

• The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Future
  • Enjoy
  • Matter

• I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • God
  • Bad
  • Earth

• People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Women
  • Fun

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Generation

• Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Powerful

• On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.

  

  Iman
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Night

• The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Relationship
  • Harmony
  • Grow

• Politics is not an exact science.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Science
  • Politics
  • Exact

• Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Society
  • Science
  • Culture

• I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Sense
  • Scene
  • Crowd

• Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Family
  • She
  • Think

• I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Up
  • Anxiety
  • Very

• If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.

  

  Larry David
  • She
  • Know
  • Woman

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Done
  • Past

• I have a hyper personality.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Personality
  • Hyper

• My mother actually does most of my shopping for me. I love fashion, but I don't really love shopping.

  

  Danielle de Niese
  • Mother
  • Fashion
  • Shopping

• The real question is, Did God use evolution as His plan? If it could be shown that man, instead of being made in the image of God, is a development of beasts we would have to accept it, regardless of its effort, for truth is truth and must prevail. But when there is no proof we have a right to consider the effect of the acceptance of an unsupported hypothesis.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Men
  • Real
  • Science

• All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Done
  • Faith
  • Religious

• He was no respecter of windy theories about inborn racial traits, but there was something to be said for traditions so ancient as to be unconscious and ineradicable.

  

  Poul Anderson

• The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

  

  Paul Kantner
  • Real
  • Positive