Yoko Ono Quotes
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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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.
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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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.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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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.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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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.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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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.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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And if you do all you can, that's all you can ever do.
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I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.
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Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.
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I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.
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The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next.
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I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.
