Yoko Ono Quotes

I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

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• I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Wife

• Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Record
  • Often
  • Killer

• I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Time
  • Work
  • End

• Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Think
  • Society
  • Black

• As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Model
  • Complex
  • Sophisticated

• I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • People
  • Hate
  • Things

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Think
  • Scary
  • Something

• Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Pain
  • Body
  • Ready

• I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Truth
  • Think
  • Ready

• Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Great
  • Game
  • Change

• One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Good
  • Technology
  • iPhone

• Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Society
  • Corruption
  • Every

• For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

  

  Cao Yu
  • Life
  • Best
  • Short

• There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Country
  • Control
  • Government

• Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.

  

  Xenophon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Escape

• We've never been anti-Semitic.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Never
  • Been
  • Anti-Semitic

• We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Love
  • Result
  • Judged

• You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Gay
  • Actor
  • Issues

• I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • War
  • Journalist

• Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Lyrics

• I can remember dancing around living room with my two sisters to the music of Paganini and Mozart. I can still remember my dad combing the newspaper, circling all the free concerts in town, and on the weekends, we would go as a family.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Music
  • Family
  • Remember

• On-camera stuff just hit. I decided to do it to supplement my voice-over career, but I ended up falling in love with it, and it actually hit a lot harder than my voice-over career.

  

  Matthew Moy
  • Up
  • Career

• I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Music
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