Sean Lennon Quotes
I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.
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My involvement with Guantanamo began as vice chief of staff.
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I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.
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Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.
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Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
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I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.
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It's hard for me to judge my own films as an artist sometimes. But as an artist, I did feel a fulfillment working on them, you know?
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For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.
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If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
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The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
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I'm a Nintendo geek, so I'm a pretty big Nintendo fan.
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As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life.
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Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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When people hear our record, they're not going to be able to put us into the 'New Metal' category or the 'pop-punk' category or the 'aggressive emo' category. I think people will be able to take it for what it is.
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I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.
