Yoko Ono Quotes
People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
Quotes to Explore
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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I like things simple.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future.
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I just remembered that I'm absent minded... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it.
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Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
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Sleep is probably my favorite activity. I wrote this piece out of gratitude that I'm able to sleep well as an offering to people who don't.
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If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.
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I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my people on the African continent, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo where I came from. Out first mission was to go and build a new hospital. Our next mission was to build a school.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
