Ringo Starr Quotes
I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.
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I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
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I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on the issue of gay rights. It is not easy to stand up on that issue when you are single and male in New York City. I did it anyway.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.
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The Caribbean calls upon the enslaving governments of Europe and their national institutions, all enriched and empowered by their crimes against humanity, to return to the region in order to participate in cleaning up their colonial mess.
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I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.
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I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.
