Yoko Ono Quotes

I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.

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• The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
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  • Down

• It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.

  

  Ferran Adria
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  • Eyes
  • Discipline

• You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.

  

  Magic Johnson
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  • Friend
  • Hug

• You've got to be taught to hate and fear.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
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  • Fear
  • Hate

• If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.

  

  Natalie Portman
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  • Everyone
  • Hot

• When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.

  

  Laura Prepon
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• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
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• Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.

  

  T.I.
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  • Talent
  • Greatest

• You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.

  

  Pat Paulsen
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  • Understand
  • Credit

• When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

  

  Daniel Craig
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  • Movies
  • Got

• Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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  • Layers
  • Vine

• You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

  

  Victor Kiam
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  • Serving

• I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.

  

  Idris Elba
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  • Moment

• The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
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  • Push
  • Nurturing

• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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  • Interesting
  • Study

• You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.

  

  Zoe Kazan
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• The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

  

  Vince Cable
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• You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• I mean, like, I can go in a room and say, look, 'Watchmen' should be at least 15 minutes longer than 'Batman.' I mean, that's, like, any geek will tell you that.

  

  Zack Snyder
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• Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
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  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
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  • Helping
  • Born

• Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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  • Prejudice

• Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

  

  Washington Irving
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  • Wishes
  • Great Minds

• I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.

  

  Yoko Ono
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