Yoko Ono Quotes
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I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
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I have dangerous bones in my body.
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I will admit to hoarding beauty products. I'm a beauty lady.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.
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New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.
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I would like to be a legend, everyone wants to be a legend.
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The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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I want to shoot some indies, some independent features that give me some space to play a little bit.
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I don't believe in making movies to cater to a foreign audience. You never know what the reaction is going to be anyhow. At the time I made Maborosi, the Japanese movies getting any foreign attention were all period dramas and seemed to be about some representative element of Japanese life, and my movie was contemporary movie about one specific woman trying to understand her husband's suicide.
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The recent developments in Nepal are a matter of serious concern.
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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
