Sean Lennon Quotes

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

Sean Lennon

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• I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.

  

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• This town was built on nepotism.

  

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• I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

  

  Maddie Hasson
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• Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.

  

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• The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
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• People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.

  

  Dan Pink
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• We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • World
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• My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

  

  Rachel Hunter
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  • Age

• For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
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• I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that.

  

  Vidya Balan
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• God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
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• I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
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• There's something artistic about skating. A psychologist could tell you exactly why that is, but I think there's something much more expressive that gives you a lot of room for unique and individual expression. Whatever you're interested in can become something you kind of own in your group of skater friends.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
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• I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
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• I am against nationalists, but I am very much in favour of patriots.

  

  Jean-Claude Juncker

• If I'd been born into a hearing family and went to a public school, I would have probably felt much more isolated, and being deaf would have become my identity.

  

  Nyle DiMarco
  • Identity
  • Being
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• Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

  

  Sean Lennon
  • Dream
  • Kind
  • Songwriting