Yoko Ono Quotes
People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.
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I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do.
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Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.
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What am I doing with my life? Am I just going to some humdrum job that I don’t really want to be at, doing some minuscule task, getting paid to be a mindless drone? Or am I out there living life, on my terms, the way I want to live it, doing the things that I want to do?
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God wants to supply your needs from a place you never expected, through people you never knew, in ways you never thought, but first you have to believe that it is possible. Once you understand that His ability to meet your needs is bigger than your job or your business, you will find that your source of life is bigger than the resources that you have been accumulating.
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I do think there's gonna always be a group of country people that are always going to love the old traditional sound.
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I know what it's like to finish the laundry and to look in the basket five minutes later and it's full again. I know what it's like to pull all the groceries in, and see the teenagers run through, and all of a sudden, all of the groceries you just bought a few hours ago are gone.
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People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.
