John Lennon Quotes

We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.

John Lennon The Beatles

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• Crazy
• Los Angeles

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• I think there's no greater healing power than music.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Music
  • Power
  • Healing

• I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Career
  • Me
  • Football

• I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Know
  • Play
  • Strange

• There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • High
  • Society
  • Man

• I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Trying
  • Days
  • Waste

• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Different
  • Long
  • Think

• I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Experience
  • House
  • Man

• I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• My parents realized the dangers of raising a daughter in a social, political, and legal climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward women and girls. Although they fled to London when I was just three weeks old, the challenges facing women's rights in Iran became ingrained in my social consciousness.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Women
  • Parents
  • Political

• One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Party
  • California

• I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Kids
  • Man
  • Film

• When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Child
  • Start
  • Year

• We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

  

  Barry White
  • Music
  • Beginning
  • Baby

• Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Bad
  • Food

• He was a very good hater.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good

• Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • True

• My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • She
  • Career
  • Wife

• I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

  

  Desmond Tutu

• I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• I don't think you should limit what you read.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • You
  • Limit

• It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

  

  James Patterson
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't. Conservatives typically haven't written much fiction - specifically political thrillers - over the years to educate, inspire and mobilize people on issues of great import, but we ought to.

  

  Joel C. Rosenberg
  • People
  • Great
  • Political

• We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • City
  • Crazy
  • Los Angeles