John Lennon Quotes
Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.
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Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
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I love people who dress how they feel and change it depending on the day.
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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Being on Disney, a lot of young people look up to me.
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My voice has always been kind of distinct - even when I was four years old, my mom told me that people would be like, 'Why does your daughter always sound like a chain smoker?' I've always had this deep, raspy voice.
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Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
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I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.
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As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.
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My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation. They weren't married, and I thought that was normal. We called them by their first names.
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I never hated hip-hop. It became the new rock and roll. It became the biggest thing that Africans have ever done in the history of the Americas. Hip-hop put more black Americans on than anything before it. It fed more people. It allowed them to diversify into clothing lines and billion-dollar headphone companies.
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I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.
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When I got signed to the 'Fader' Label, they got really excited about having me as their new artist. They were promoting my music everywhere. Pharrell was one of the producers who wanted to work with me, so I was really lucky to be one of those people who got to work with him.
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Getting to share the stories in my head with other people and have them enjoy those stories, and having them come to see my characters as real. That's so cool.
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I have no direct knowledge of this, but I suspect that Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people's expectations really strongly, and the notion of a separate console platform will disappear concurrent with Apple's announcement.
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I don’t tell myself I am a hero. People do look up to performers and think of them as heroes...Hero worship in India is too big. It is both right and wrong. It is fair to respect people who have done things that others haven’t but it is not right to traet them as gods.
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Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
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You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician.
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My favourite tea is lapsang souchong.
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But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.
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We must teach compassion and tolerance and encourage kindness, selflessness, and loving acceptance of all who are created in the image of God.
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Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.
