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

• 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

• 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 can be a lady - surprise!

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips

• The fact that Facebook presents facial recognition programmes as a desirable development, well, that in itself is a decisive step toward fascism, as far as I'm concerned.

  

  Christoph Waltz

• I remember my very first training session. It was raining hard. It was cold, and I went home. I couldn't train. I stayed for ten minutes then told my dad to take me home.

  

  Anthony Martial
  • Home
  • Remember
  • Dad

• No matter what happens to you, you can maintain your own control about what you believe and who you are.

  

  Alexis Wright
  • Believe
  • Control

• I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • Life
  • Live

• I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.

  

  Elvis Costello

• You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Want
  • Know
  • Promise

• One of the Sunday newspapers asked me to make my favorite dish, and they photographed me holding it in the kitchen. It was roasted salmon with roasted vegetables. That's not cooking; that's putting things in a pan. It looked quite nice, but I'm not saying it was good.

  

  Lesley Nicol
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Cooking

• 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