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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• If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

  

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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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• My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
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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
  • Life
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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
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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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• For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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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• Who on earth would expect a band such as Nightwish, to give you, of all people, the phone call, 'Hey, can you come and join us now?' Yeah, that turned everything upside down.

  

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• I think what's important to understand is if the United States hits the debt ceiling and is unable to pay its debts, the consequences will be immediate and dramatic.

  

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• Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• I'd be very suspicious of anybody that seems to have to move to the next level of expression. I distrust that: now I'm writing a book, now I'm being an actor. It should be a natural thing. I think it's a natural thing for you to act. But I think that people that feel that, because they've written one maybe quite beautiful love song that equips them to play Romeo, is probably misguided.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Expression
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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