John Lennon Quotes
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I love England. I don't really like places when they're too hot. It's my Celtic blood.
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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
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Computing technology started out as number-crunching.
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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
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Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.
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For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.
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If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.
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I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.
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'To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.'
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All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.
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Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.
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Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
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With his compulsively slamming lyrics and king-of-the-world delivery, DMX intuitively echoes the existentialism of the projects of the novelist Donald Goines.
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In 'Training Day,' Mr. Washington's dry-ice grandeur - the predator's reflexes contrasting with a pensive mouth - deserves regard, and his powerhouse virtuosity will almost guarantee him an Oscar nomination.
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I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
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The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.
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The Pakistanis are very resilient people.
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Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.
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She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface.
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Imma be what I set out to be without a doubt undoubtedly.
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As I got older though I wanted a life of my own. The classical training was very demanding and thorough. It was a very sheltered existence. Even though I heard blues and gospel on the radio sometimes, it was always back to the piano and study and give recitals.
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Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.
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You can only breathe out if you breathe in.
