John Lennon Quotes

I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.

John Lennon The Beatles

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• Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Born
  • Treats
  • Virtuous

• Fat is mainstream, which is why everyone has become complacent. What used to be considered pudgy before isn't even worthy of a comment today.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Why
  • Today
  • Mainstream

• Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough to eat, hundreds of millions more are eating too much and are overweight or obese.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• The real reason for health claims is well established: health claims sell food products.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Real
  • Food
  • Health

• Pires has got something about him, he can go both ways depending on who's facing him

  

  David Pleat
  • Way

• I don't believe in a God. I don't believe in any of that stuff to determine my life or my goals or my direction. I just depend on myself.

  

  Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
  • Believe
  • Goal
  • Determine

• Real Revolution Starts At Learning, If You're Not Angry, Then You Are Not Paying Attention.

  

  Tim McIlrath Rise Against
  • Learning
  • Revolution
  • Angry

• Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.

  

  Roger McGuinn The Byrds
  • Record
  • Software
  • Microphone

• 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

  

  George Eliot
  • God
  • Skill
  • VIolins

• The boundaries between you and not-you — what lies beyond your skin — relax and become more permeable. While infused with love you see fewer distinctions between you and others. Indeed, your ability to see others — really see them, wholeheartedly — springs open.

  

  Barbara Fredrickson
  • Relax
  • Boundaries
  • Springs

• I'm a really good fine tuner.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Fine

• Sometimes when I'm dancing and don't put in enough hairspray, I wind up looking like a... what's the animal with needles? Porcupine.

  

  Eva Simons
  • Animal
  • Dancing
  • Hairspray

• I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Monk
  • Coltrane
  • Armstrong

• The fascination of trifles obscures the good,” says the Wise Man. It is difficult in the midst of much doing and seeing to keep alive and present to the deepest reality, to the really real. And so the monk goes apart…

  

  Basil Pennington
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Wise Man

• I never really got around to discussing that specific topic which I think it crucially important to understand. If you were a monk in Buddhist time and you had sex, there was a good chance a child would be conceived.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Child
  • Buddhist
  • Monk

• Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Miracles

• I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Music Business
  • Monk
  • Andy Warhol