Yoko Ono Quotes
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Broadway is really my life.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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I'm a nationalist. I'm a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I'm a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I'm a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I'm a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I'm patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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I love books.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived at by some sort of compromise.
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I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
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A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
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It takes at least three trees to make a row, and it needs at least three facts to make a truth.
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I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.
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We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.
