Yoko Ono Quotes
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.
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Nothing is absolute in security.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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Life has become a compromise.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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The chandelier suddenly started to sway
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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Art for me is like breathing.
