Yoko Ono Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.
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The elephant in the room has always been simulator sickness and disorientation. That's one of the biggest challenges.
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I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.
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I want what's mine. I see other actors who are doing very interesting roles, and I just want to continue to do things that are interesting, and things that people will go see in theaters.
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The international community . . . allows nearly 3 billion people-almost half of all humanity-to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
