Sean Lennon Quotes

I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best

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• Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Like

• The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.

  

  Victoria Hanley
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Inspiration

• The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Failure
  • Cost

• We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Education
  • Organization
  • Graduation

• A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

  

  Walter Martin
  • People
  • Truth
  • Devil

• 'Ek Main Aur Ek Tu' was a very special film for me. Imran and we complement each other very well. He is sugar, and I am spice.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Film
  • Complement
  • Imran

• In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Ideas
  • End
  • Wealth

• I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Live
  • Years
  • Jerusalem

• Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Happy
  • Gratitude
  • Thanks

• Highlight reels are about that one person. After a barrage of highlight reels, you get the sense that you can do it without a team. But music thrived the most when groups were involved. People lose sight of that - that community makes the world run.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• You've got a couple of same-sex guys kissing, do you 'like' that? Well, that makes me want to throw up. To me, I would punch 'vomit' not 'like', but they don't give you that option on Facebook.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Couple
  • Sex

• We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

  

  Benjamin Harrison
  • World
  • God
  • Police

• I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Up
  • Universe

• Boxing is a really difficult sport! So I don't want to tell you I wouldn't try it, but I guess everybody that does know about it, my friends, they tell me how difficult it is, and I'm like, 'Eh.'

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Friends
  • Boxing

• I went to college when I was 27, and somehow, between high school and college, I became obsessed with getting A's. I can tell you exactly how many non-A's I had, and tell you honestly that I cried every time!

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• If you have 130 people on set, all with different opinions, sometimes it's going to kick off. There might be some people who say I'm a big problem to work with - that you couldn't tell me anything - but hopefully, they don't.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• Harvard was also a little bit of a villain in my first book, 'The Dante Club.' I guess there might be a way to make Harvard more of a sympathetic presence, but it's such a powerful institution that it more naturally lends itself toward not necessarily a negative but an obstructionist element in a story.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Book
  • Powerful

• I think I'd like my hair to be perfect.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Perfect
  • Hair

• I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • May
  • Wish

• I suppose I've always put the career, the job and politics, all of that first.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • Job
  • Career

• It takes a little work to be a vegan, but now it's really possible to have tasty stuff and it's better for you. I say the best test is go as far as you can and see how you feel. Personally, I feel great.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Stuff
  • Vegan
  • Beat Test

• It doesn't matter if it's a drama or a comedy, the need to get the emotion and the character arc across is way harder in something like this so was more of a preparation.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Character
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• With the arrogance of youth, I thought, 'I don't drink, don't smoke, I don't do drugs, so why would I get cancer?' The week I spent waiting for the result of the biopsy to see if it was malignant felt like the longest of my life.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Life
  • Why
  • Waiting

• I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best

  

  Sean Lennon