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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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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If we do our job right, then we have everything to stand on. If we don't do our job, we have everything to lose on.
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I don't know why I survived Iraq and I don't know why I made it home, but I do know that this is my second chance at life and I can do whatever I want now.
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There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I don't think you should ever damage other people for your art.
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I absolutely love Aquaman, and the character has been a passion since 'Blackest Night.'
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I think of the pop music that I've made in the past and hear on the radio as candy bars. And I was really good at making candy bars.
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I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
