Ringo Starr Quotes

The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right.

Ringo Starr The Beatles

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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.

  

  Karen Mills
  • President
  • Priority
  • Top

• 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.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Anxiety
  • Groups

• I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.

  

  Abby Elliott
  • Focus
  • Never
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • You
  • Know
  • Deserve

• 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.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Long
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Single
  • Process
  • Building

• Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Identity
  • Changing
  • Vampire

• I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Think
  • Sick

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Running
  • Happiness

• There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.

  

  Wale
  • America
  • You
  • Win

• 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.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Real
  • Money
  • Problem

• Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Career
  • Acting
  • Aesthetic

• There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Nature
  • Think
  • You

• 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.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Gun
  • Lose
  • Worst

• With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Hard
  • Exposure

• You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Book
  • Age
  • Black

• 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.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Artist
  • Honor

• Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Children
  • Reading
  • Gift

• I'm obsessed with Juice Press - they're everywhere. I spend so much money at that place it's crazy.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Money
  • Crazy
  • Place

• Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.

  

  Anna Chlumsky
  • Business
  • Kids
  • Truth

• Football is so popular, people know they can sell their story in a newspaper form or a rating on TV, so they use football because what they are more about is the business of, you know, selling newspapers or seeing commercial time on TV.

  

  Jim Irsay
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• There are periods where you think, "What am I doing?" or "What am I doing it for?"; that's a more scary question. "I've made s---loads of money, I've left my mark in music, why am I still doing this?," and it takes a while to answer that question.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Music
  • Money
  • Why

• As medical data has such power to deliver better understanding of disease and better patient outcomes, it is important we find the best way of sharing it.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Important
  • Power
  • Understanding

• The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Money
  • Business
  • Driven