Yoko Ono Quotes
The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
Quotes to Explore
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers -
We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.
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It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home.
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It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana.
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Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.
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There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
