Yoko Ono Quotes

If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you.

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• We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • Development
  • Islamic

• My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Up
  • Career
  • Parents

• When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Job
  • Flying
  • Idiot

• I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Energy
  • Always
  • Try

• I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Write
  • Sing
  • Hum

• I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Money
  • Business
  • Value

• Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Different
  • Explore

• You can instantly spot a Chanel woman, so I want to develop the Dior woman.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Want
  • You
  • Woman

• In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • Job
  • Know
  • Oil

• I went in, and there, in the front room, a converted bedroom, sat the first radio I had ever seen. The equipment was so bulky that it took up one entire wall of the bedroom. The set, which could send or receive signals, was tuned to KDKA in Pittsburgh, and I remember being completely flabbergasted at the thought of sounds coming from that box.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Thought

• My inspiration is always love and history, and my passion to a fault is craftsmanship and responsibility. Those are the simplest things. It goes beyond jewelry. It's every part of my life.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Life
  • Love
  • History

• Of course, it's a dream to go to Mars. I want to find out whether there was life there or not. And if there was, then why did it die out? What sort of catastrophe happened?

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Life
  • Why
  • Dream

• I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Good
  • Something
  • Crime

• I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Failure
  • Yourself

• I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Mom
  • Artist
  • Said

• My philosophy is 'learn while you live.' 'LazyTown' is about balance. I'm not there yet.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Live
  • Balance
  • Philosophy

• Some one said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.

  

  Blair Underwood
  • People
  • Experience
  • Night

• Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth:If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Wisdom
  • Doubt

• When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • School
  • High
  • Words

• Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really are.

  

  Charlie Bell
  • Pretty

• We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.

  

  Joko Beck
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you.

  

  Yoko Ono