Yoko Ono Quotes

Art for me is like breathing.

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• I like going after good material, well-written material.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Good
  • Like
  • Going

• 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.

  

  Jack London
  • Dog
  • Charity
  • Hungry

• 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.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Passion

• Nothing is absolute in security.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Nothing
  • Security
  • Absolute

• 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.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Kids
  • Light

• Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Heart
  • You
  • Decision

• 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.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Friends
  • Political
  • Space

• 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.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Great
  • American
  • War

• 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.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Job
  • Career

• It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Desire

• 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.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Cancer

• I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!

  

  Odette Annable
  • Want
  • Like
  • Lift

• I'm an actress, not a pinup.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Actress

• I want to see as many black professionals as possible.

  

  Orlando Jones
  • Want
  • Black
  • See

• 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.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Hand
  • Security
  • London

• I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • God
  • Think
  • Man

• Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Career
  • Politics
  • Strength

• It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Time
  • Memory
  • How

• Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Awkward

• It's tougher for women than men in Hollywood, period, if you ask me. As with most professions, women have generally not found equality with men when it comes to income and influence. There aren't as many female directors, producers, and writers, which translates to fewer complex roles for women.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Period

• We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Me
  • Define
  • Blackness

• I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.

  

  Jane Rule
  • People
  • Long
  • Art

• Art for me is like breathing.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Me
  • Breathing