John Lennon Quotes

A working class hero is something to be.

John Lennon The Beatles

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• We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • Development
  • Islamic

• I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Film
  • Person
  • Certain

• Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Find
  • Solutions

• I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Change

• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Me

• We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • People
  • Life
  • Fear

• I live in a rural residential area. It's a great place for a walk. I'm at my happiest when I'm listening to my iPod while walking around where my feet take me.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Great
  • Live
  • Listening

• The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.

  

  Flume
  • Me
  • Daily
  • Page

• My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Father
  • Dark
  • Sometimes

• Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Way
  • Dance
  • Songs

• I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Hope
  • Government
  • Environment

• I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Life
  • Want
  • Feel

• I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• There's something pure about our bloodline: There are no accidental kids of gay parents. Every single gay parent desperately, passionately wanted to be a parent. That's neat, and I hope we can keep it that way.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Parents

• When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Rock
  • Sex
  • Politics

• Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Best
  • Ideas

• Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • History
  • Celebrity
  • Brand

• When you're in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,' it makes you go, 'No.' I didn't want to work all the time.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Time
  • Work
  • Relationship

• We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way.

  

  Dave Haywood Lady Antebellum
  • People
  • Great
  • Lyric

• I've established a company - The Edward George Wealth Management Group - which facilitates in helping players maintain their finances, and more importantly, maintain their lives during the duration of their careers and beyond.

  

  Eddie George
  • Players
  • Careers
  • Established

• I didn't know I was depressed until years later. Actually, I went to the Minirth-Meier Clinic for ADD. I got tested for ADD. So, that's nice. It's nice to know you got ADD. So, that puts you on medication. Did that for years. Then got tested for clinical depression. So, finally when they tell you this, you go, 'ahhh, this is great.' So, now this explains events in your life and how you handle them. But our society frowns on it and they don't want their heroes to have these issues, but unfortunately I do.

  

  Terry Bradshaw
  • Nice
  • Hero
  • Issues

• A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Savage

• Maybe I am a bit unusual here, but I am less stressed if I have my phone with me. Because I can spend like an hour in the morning taking care of everything instead of I sit there and wonder what I missed or wonder what's happening. So it's way less stressful for me to just answer my phone.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Care
  • Phone
  • Stressful

• A working class hero is something to be.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Hero
  • Working Class