Yoko Ono Quotes

In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.

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• Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • People
  • May
  • Remember

• The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • True
  • Wrong

• I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.

  

  Vanity
  • Music
  • Old
  • Vanity

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.

  

  Gary Larson
  • People
  • Work
  • Ideas

• Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Political
  • Run

• As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Music
  • Something

• Square meals often make round people.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • People
  • Round
  • Square

• Marriage is socialism among two people.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Socialism

• The real guys that I knew were really cool people, who I played basketball with and traveled with on teams and knew their families and knew that they love their family. They just happen to do something that wasn't all the way legal, but it was a part of their life, and you knew that they hustled.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can't, or they can destroy people's lives.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Police
  • Destroy

• Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Think
  • Habit

• Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop for the past 10 years. It's the way we advertise our music to the public for free.

  

  Wale
  • Music
  • Important
  • Pretty

• Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Story
  • Just

• Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• When I talk about the Internet, it's because young people are there. TV and radio are still what moves the masses, and you can't ignore that. But you also have to feed that monster that grows daily, which is the Internet.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • People
  • Daily
  • Internet

• When I was saying, 'White people go to hell,' I never had trouble finding a publisher. But when I say, 'Black and white unite and fight, destroy capitalism,' then you suddenly become unreasonable.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • People
  • Black

• Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.

  

  James MacArthur
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• We all had our reservations about possibly overdoing it but, you know, the script was great. Basically it stuck to the formula that worked for the first two movies, and for that reason I think this works as well.

  

  Jason Biggs
  • Great

• I really don't like people that go on about getting followed around, I don't like it - there are people in the industry that don't want to take everything that comes with it. I take it all.

  

  Peter Andre
  • People

• In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Music
  • Rock