Yoko Ono Quotes
What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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I definitely enjoy the kind of magic that happens being on stage with a group when everything's working. The vibe when that's happening gets even better if the audience is involved and you can feel that interaction. That's something you don't get with your headphones on in a studio; it's much different.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual's particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out.
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To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.
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I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.
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For John le Carre, it was always who's betraying who: the hall-of-mirrors kind of thing. When you go back to the '30s, it's a case of good vs. evil, and no kidding. When I have a hero who believes France and Britain are on the right side, a reader is not going to question that.
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I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.
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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
