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?
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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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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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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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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'm a historian in my own mind.
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I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
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I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
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For us, when we think about the Middle Ages, it's sort of this rarefied, distant time that we have no connection to, especially if you grew up in America.
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It's important to have quiet time and isolation.
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Many gloat over their own troubles.
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I'm not here to – as a parent, I believe we are specifically here to help our children mature in the way that they can take on their own lives. I'm not here to live their lives for them. That's not my job.
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Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
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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?
