Ringo Starr Quotes
Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
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When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position, and salary is important, there's another consideration that matters just as much: culture.
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As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.
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Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.
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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
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If I had any humility I would be perfect.
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We do have choice, but not without some agony.
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I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
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It's hard to remain patient when it seems so debilitating to do so. The balance comes with staying ambitious while being patient.
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The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
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Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
