John Lennon Quotes

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

John Lennon The Beatles

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• Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Good
  • Game
  • College

• Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Giving

• I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • People
  • Parents
  • Like

• A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • School
  • America
  • Change

• If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Want
  • You
  • Yourself

• Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Yoga
  • Union
  • Dimensions

• I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Up
  • Different
  • Done

• When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Couple

• I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Authenticity

• L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Home
  • Me
  • Feel

• I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.

  

  Cam
  • Life
  • Live
  • Awesome

• People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Reading
  • Beach

• Teachers alone can't educate young people.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • People
  • Alone
  • Young

• Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Up
  • Eyes

• Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Space
  • Trust
  • Lucky

• We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • People
  • Government
  • Politics

• Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.

  

  James Cash Penney
  • Together
  • Growth

• I always see bridal as a cultural thing: you have to get under the skin to find out what is needed in that market. For instance, the Italians love plain dresses, and the Americans loved beaded ones.

  

  Jenny Packham

• I am the Captain of the Pinafore ; And a right good captain too! . . . . And I'm never, never sick at sea! What, never? No, never! What never? Hardly ever! He's hardly ever sick at sea! Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the hardy Captain of the Pinafore!

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Good
  • Sea
  • Sick

• When you're filming, if you can't capture the relationships and interplay, that magical thing that transpires between musicians during a performance, then you're not going to have a deeply interesting film. It's vital.

  

  Jonathan Demme
  • Interesting

• Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Freedom
  • Sing
  • Birds