Ringo Starr Quotes
The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That’s all they’ll ever be.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
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We don't wake up happy and looking absolutely perfect and feeling amazing every day, you know? We're only human. So I think, with me, I'm not really scared to let people see that - because it's real.
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Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.
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Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
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I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in.
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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
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Treat your life like a game.
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Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.
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White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.
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The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That’s all they’ll ever be.
