Yoko Ono Quotes

I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

Yoko Ono

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• If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Help
  • Car
  • Dog

• If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Movie
  • You

• There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Long
  • Political

• I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Day
  • Woman

• I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Great
  • Art
  • Think

• Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Me
  • Present
  • Gift

• I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Guy

• Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Free
  • Crazy
  • Effort

• Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Long
  • Job
  • Movie

• I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Today
  • Feeling

• Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Enemy
  • Crush
  • Communism

• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Girl
  • Sexy
  • Train

• Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • People
  • Art
  • Politics

• It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn, however, that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Learn
  • Doors

• It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm even more of a dissident than I was then.

  

  Felice Picano
  • Age
  • Old
  • Now

• Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Important
  • Art
  • Society

• The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Children
  • Real
  • Father

• Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading bathing all, the fulfill'd noon, The coming eve delicious, the welcome night and the stars, Over my cities shining all, enveloping man and land.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Night
  • Light
  • Stars

• Gossip is irresponsible communication. Irresponsible because it is at the expense of another person who is not there to defend herself. Irresponsible because it is not constructive: it helps no one, least of all the person being gossiped about.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Helping
  • Communication
  • Gossip

• Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views.

  

  Evan Davis
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Shame

• Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Light
  • Speak
  • Grief

• I'd like to dress up more often and wear dresses, but I never get the chance. I'd also like to learn to do my own makeup.

  

  Caster Semenya
  • Never
  • Chance
  • Makeup

• I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Problem
  • Yourself
  • Calm