John Lennon Quotes
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.
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If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.
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While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.
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Only heroes get stereotyped. As they do the same kind of roles again and again.
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I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.
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I've always collected vintage kitchenalia because it's beautifully made, and I love to see things that have been used down the ages.
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It's hard to be serious in life.
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I'm very bad at violence in real life. I can't stand it. And I'm so fed up with crime novels that have too much violence. I can't really do it. It's unnecessary.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.
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Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
