Yoko Ono Quotes
You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
Quotes to Explore
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.
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Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.
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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I love 'Capote.' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my top five. I just love him so much.
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My home has always been show business.
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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
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Every manager dreams of a job like this [the England job] and I will be sure to learn English within one month.
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Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.
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You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
