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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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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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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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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Whenever I wasn't working, I had my butt back in normal school.
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I think the good thing about Macklemore is that he is very precise about what he gets involved in. As you can tell, he's very passionate about what he puts his name on, because he talks about things people don't usually talk about, and his concepts are very, very passionate.
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If you listen to most songs, most people will not sing the words of the lead singer. They will sing the hook. The hook is what makes the record sell.
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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?