John Lennon Quotes
You don't have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first.
Quotes to Explore
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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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.
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The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you.
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Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
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I kind of put myself out there as is. I'm a quiet person. I don't know if that's surprising. I'm a Pilates junkie.
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As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
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Everyone Instagrams all the people they are with. I get that it's part of the job. But there's a point where it's like, 'Can't you just be a person and have a separate life to your job?'
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Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
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I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed;I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold,And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.
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I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don’t just go ahead and be happy.
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My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.
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It's a fascinating job, to come in and be the most interesting person in an episode. Whoever the guest star is, that's the job - to maintain the interest and the focus for that 42 minutes or whatever, and it should be a huge relief to those people that are the leads in the shows.
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David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
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There are some stories I want to tell that I think it'd be cool to see an African-American dude do.
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And yet these things for which we should strive eagerly, things so closely akin to ourselves, so truly our own, we treat with great slackness and constant indifference and thus destroy the germs of excellence, while those things in which deficiency were a merit we desire with an insatiable yearning.
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You don't have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first.
