Yoko Ono Quotes
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Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.
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Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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I enjoy Saturday night racing.
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
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I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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Equality in education is my number one battle.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
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I get cyber-bullied all of the time. Everybody has something negative to say. It is so hurtful. So I think that it is really important for kids to know how to deal with it correctly because it can be a really dangerous situation.
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All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.
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The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
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Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.
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I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?
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I took a job as a reporter in India, where I lived with several married couples, which got me interested in why some marriages work and others fail. Back home, many women of my generation were also putting off marriage or not getting married at all, which only led me to more questions.
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I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.
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Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.
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Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
