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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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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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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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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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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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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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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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
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Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.
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It's a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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.
