Yoko Ono Quotes
Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price. I'm throwing the dice in the air. Why must we learn it the hard way And play the game of life with your heart?
Quotes to Explore
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Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
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I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.
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Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.
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That's why I got into Pilates: because I can reduce the stress and impact in my joints while still being able to increase strength and flexibility, and it's going to pay dividends.
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Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who I could be, I accepted the stories others told me about myself, stories which diminished and belittled me and people like me. I want to write against that.
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Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price. I'm throwing the dice in the air. Why must we learn it the hard way And play the game of life with your heart?
