John Lennon Quotes
Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.John Lennon The Beatles
Quotes to Explore
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Walter Benjamin -
I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
Katee Sackhoff -
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Malcolm Forbes -
Anyone who's been through divorce will know that every day is really hard.
Kate Winslet -
My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
Gary McCord -
It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.
Rachel Cusk
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
Maggie Cheung -
I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
Barry Goldwater -
It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
M. Russell Ballard -
I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.
Lamar Alexander -
I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.
Lasse Hallstrom -
I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
Sadie Frost
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
Kanye West -
Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
Francine Pascal -
Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
C. S. Lewis -
We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.
Tara Brach -
As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
Zola Jesus -
Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
J. August Richards
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The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.
Quentin Bryce -
I never want to play the same character twice. I like to do different roles. I have fun with that.
Abigail Breslin -
Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
Aaron Allston -
God bless Tony Romo.
Jon Gruden -
We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
Byron Katie -
Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.
John Lennon The Beatles