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

• '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

• 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

• 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

• Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song.

  

  Jake Owen
  • Great
  • Music
  • Song

• Look at every show on television; it's derivative of another show that came before it. It was only a matter of time. So all you 'Mentalist' fans, it's okay to like the show, but don't be in denial of where it came from. Friday nights, U.S.A., basic cable-style baby.

  

  James Roday
  • Time
  • Style
  • Baby

• My first movie was with Mike Nichols.

  

  Carol Kane
  • Movie

• For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Method
  • Personalities
  • Multiply

• I kick off every monthly team meeting with 'core value stories' - team members stand up and recognize how another team member exemplified a core value.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Up
  • Team
  • Value

• For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.

  

  Jean Stafford
  • Home

• 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