Yoko Ono Quotes

I trust myself. You need that to survive.

Yoko Ono

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Control
  • Person
  • Situation

• I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Always
  • Poverty
  • Horror

• I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Food

• Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Women
  • Real
  • Woman

• Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • History
  • Humanity
  • Language

• When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Small

• I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Good
  • Work
  • Hope

• The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Rose

• My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Want
  • Hair
  • Grow

• People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.

  

  Kate Upton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Past
  • You
  • Mistakes

• I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.

  

  Adam Jones
  • People
  • Think
  • Boring

• We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Fear
  • Others
  • Greedy

• When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Die
  • Day
  • Myself

• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Happiness
  • Without
  • Admire

• I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Good
  • Think
  • Just Because

• I just don't think men fancy me.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Men
  • Think
  • Me

• Since 1989, public alarm at the prospect of atomic Armageddon has quietened, but the number of nuclear-armed states has increased, arsenals are being modernized, and powerful states remain convinced that a nuclear security umbrella is vital to national defense, domestic prestige, and geopolitical clout.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • Powerful

• I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Name
  • Down
  • Chair

• That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Great
  • Movie

• Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Mistake
  • Record

• If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Long
  • Control
  • Myself

• I trust myself. You need that to survive.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Myself
  • Trust
  • Need