Ringo Starr Quotes
We were honest with each other and we were honest about the music. The music was positive. It was positive in love. They did write – we all wrote – about other things, but the basic Beatles message was Love.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.
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Steve Hackett is a very underrated writer and actually a very good singer.
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A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.
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It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.
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If you only have the mind of, "We have to sell this music and I have to make money on this music," then it's not really about the music anymore; it's about the money. I'm not saying I don't want to make money, but I'm thinking a little more long-term than just making a buck today.
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We were honest with each other and we were honest about the music. The music was positive. It was positive in love. They did write – we all wrote – about other things, but the basic Beatles message was Love.
