Ringo Starr Quotes

I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow.

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• There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Long
  • Political

• I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Like
  • Hair
  • Gray

• I have been the victim of heartless malice.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Been
  • Victim
  • Heartless

• Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Remember
  • American
  • Right

• I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Down

• I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Love

• Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Conversation

• Well, I'm an independent person.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Person
  • Independent
  • Well

• I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Tired

• The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Change
  • Oil
  • Climate Change

• Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Down
  • Trees
  • Graceful

• Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?

  

  J. B. Smoove
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  • Man
  • You

• There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • People
  • Power
  • Yoga

• I love grey. My mom told me that when I was younger, I would get mildly depressed when it was grey all the time. I'd be darker when it was dark out. But as an adult, I really love it.

  

  Banks
  • Time
  • Love
  • Mom

• The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Real
  • Language
  • Said

• In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Luck
  • Tragedy
  • Few

• You could easily tell that hardwork and perseverance go hand in hand with patience. We often hear people say patience is worth it, yet we don't practice it. I did and look how well it worked out for me.

  

  Aliko Dangote
  • People
  • Hand
  • Practice

• Some people seem to think football is like theatre and that everyone has to play the good guy. But I think that you transform when you cross the white line: you're not the same person as off it.

  

  Diego Costa
  • People
  • Good
  • Guy

• Ἕωθεν προλέγειν ἑαυτῷ: συντεύξομαι περιέργῳ, ἀχαρίστῳ, ὑβριστῇ, δολερῷ, βασκάνῳ, ἀκοινωνήτῳ: πάντα ταῦτα συμβέβηκεν ἐκείνοις παρὰ τὴν ἄγνοιαν τῶν ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν.

  

  Marcus Aurelius

• Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Money
  • Power

• Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Science
  • Deep
  • Religion

• I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
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