Yoko Ono Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
-
There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
-
Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.
-
Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
-
Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.
-
I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
-
At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
-
I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'
-
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
-
All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
-
When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
-
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
-
The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.
-
Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.
-
If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
-
I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
-
Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.
-
I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
-
We need a science to save us from science.
-
Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.
-
When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.
-
When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them, but at least you're very strong. In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain, more and more loss and it makes you more fragile.
-
The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.
-
Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.
