Yoko Ono Quotes
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
Irvine Welsh -
I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
Kate Adie -
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
Gary Hume -
Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
Adam Cohen -
The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
Barbara Corcoran
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
Malcolm X -
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster -
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis -
I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.
Finn Jones -
The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
Jack Youngblood
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
Gautam Singhania -
I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
Barnett Newman -
I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no curfew, no rules - I loved it. I was in charge. I couldn't believe I didn't have to answer to anyone.
Karen Finerman -
Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
Rachel Stevens -
I'm a little bit of a control freak.
Harlan Coben -
My main incentive now is to be so successful that I can get a private jet and sit with the pilot. I got upgraded to first class the other week, but even there I was still scared. I could be massaged for the whole flight and still think I'm going to die.
Sam Smith
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Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.
Aristotle -
The human body as an obedient coolie, to be fed and hosed down, and given just enough sexual freedom to sedate itself.
J. G. Ballard -
Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differently. It actually feels like different bits of my head are springing into action.
Denise Mina -
… I believe it to be a duty of the General Convention of Harrisburg, not only to support the wool growers and wool manufacturers, but to lay the root at the axe of the tree, by declaring the system of Adam Smith to be erroneous – by declaring war against it on the part of the American System – ...
Friedrich List -
My life was pretty rough.
Yoko Ono