Ringo Starr Quotes
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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To be sure, ASPM isn't the gene responsible for building big brains - there's no such single gene. But it's critical to the process, and the primate line has almost certainly benefited from distinct changes in ASPM.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
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There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.
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What's the worst that could happen? You're going to come second or lose? It's not like someone has got a gun to your head.
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
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It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
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To get to record and to do things with the legends, and with the people that are your musical heroes, that's the biggest honor as an artist.
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Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
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I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.
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My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my family.
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Only artists without talent try to shock people.
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The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right.
