Yoko Ono Quotes
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Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
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Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
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It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.
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Nobody, I suppose, could devote many years to the study of chemical kinetics without being deeply conscious of the fascination of time and change: this is something that goes outside science into poetry; but science, subject to the rigid necessity of always seeking closer approximations to the truth, itself contains many poetical elements.
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Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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Photography was a way for me to freeze time and to capture the moments that were happy and healthy. I saw a photo as a way to go back to a memory if I ever needed to.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
