Ringo Starr Quotes
I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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The world is too violent right now.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep Coke's secret recipe on your iPhone.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.
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The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.
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A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.
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There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.
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If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.
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On your way towards becoming a bad theoretician, take your own immature theory, stop checking it for mistakes, don't listen to colleagues who do spot weaknesses, and start admiring your own infallible intelligence.
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There's no way I would have got to see so much of the world, with my humble background, without modelling. We were penniless and hungry for most of my youth. I washed the sheets in the bathtub in my bedroom and hung them out of the window on the clothes line, which in winter was difficult as the sheets would freeze and get stuck to the line.
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I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.
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I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
