Yoko Ono Quotes
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold 600 copies but that was considered very wonderful. I would prefer to sell 20,000 copies because the readers loved it. When I write books I don't actually think about the market in that way. I just tell myself the story. I don't think I'm talking to a 10-year-old boy or a six-year-old girl. I just write on the level the story seems to call for.
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Do I believe in the devil? I don't believe in a figure with horns and a tail.
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If you want me to play second, I need time to get ready to play second. If you want me to play short, I need time.
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Any thing that proves that it is not in the power of Kings and Princes by their great armies to have every thing their own way is of such good example that without any good will to the French one can not help being delighted by it, and you know I have a natural partiality to what some people call rebels.
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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
