Yoko Ono Quotes
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.
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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.
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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.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
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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.'
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
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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.
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I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
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Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.
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I was abducted by aliens as a boy. Aliens is the name of a pedophile who lived in my alley.
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Clavain saw it all with sudden, heart-stopping clarity: all that mattered was the here and now. All that mattered was survival. Sentience that bowed down and accepted its own extinction-no matter what the long-term arguments, no matter how good the greater cause-was not the kind of sentience he was interested in preserving.
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When your heart tells you something, you have to go with it.
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A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.
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Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.
