Yoko Ono Quotes
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
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I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many negative things about it. I don't want to go back.
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It was the Cosby issue that made me realize how much I really cared about women's issues and how much I realize it's important for me to be an advocate for issues that aren't necessarily my own, to be an ally for issues.
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When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive.
