Yoko Ono Quotes
Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Abandoning traditions of responsibility and civility won the GOP control of both houses of Congress in 1994. Rejecting any compromise brought Republicans the perks and power of majority control for the first time in 40 years. Thus did the politics of total resistance become their path of least resistance.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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I have a platform, and I can help. I can be in spaces that reporters will never be in because I'm a protester.
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In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
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In life, you have to learn how to heal. You never get over stuff, but you have to learn how to heal.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
