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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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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A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.
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Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.
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'If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.'
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Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.
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Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
