John Lennon Quotes

Before Cliff Richard and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.

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• If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Free
  • Desire
  • Question

• I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Live
  • Single

• I'll be singing with The Blind Boys of Alabama, which is a great joy to me. I've done some work with them before, and they truly are amazing.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Growth

• The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • More
  • Self
  • Execution

• Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Time
  • Family
  • Why

• I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Remember

• No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • People
  • Happy
  • Dream

• I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Think
  • Change
  • Taken

• Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Charity

• I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Music
  • Power
  • Want

• There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Strength
  • Intelligence
  • Lot

• We have met the enemy and he is us.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Enemy
  • U.S.
  • Met

• One person's rights do not have to come at the expense of another's. If we can find common ground on religious freedom and LGBT issues in Utah - one of the nation's most religious and conservative states - we can do it anywhere in the country.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• If you're in a Gay Mafia and you get whacked, is that good or bad? gay voice Say hello to my little friend.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Friend

• People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Suppose you knew the winning numbers for the lottery? All of them? Not guessed them, not dreamed them, but really knew them? What would you do? You would run to the store. You would mark those numbers on the play card. And you would win...Same for killing people.

  

  Lee Child
  • People
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• 'Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.'

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Respect

• Lovers walk in the noontime by that fountain.Pigeons dip their beaks to drink from the water.And soon the pond must freeze.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Water

• I had to learn how to trust the Lord. My faith muscles grew. Just like, you're exercising your muscles and they may be sore for a while, but they become stronger with exercise.

  

  Bill Bright
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Exercise

• Actually, tolerance and acceptance are different. To tolerate seems to mean that there is something negative to tolerate, doesn't it?

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Different
  • Acceptance
  • Tolerance

• I don't really know the story of the Pied Piper. I don't read stories, first of all. I just remember either a rabbit or a rat leading people out of the village with a flute. That's all I can tell you.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Remember
  • Village

• Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but with added knowledge and a different outcome.

  

  Han Suyin
  • Time
  • Different
  • Live

• Before Cliff Richard and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Cliff Richard
  • The Shadows
  • British music