John Lennon Quotes

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - Rock and Roll or Christianity.

John Lennon The Beatles

• People
• Music
• Possession
• Rock N Roll
• Publishers
• Chuck Berry

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• I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.

  

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• As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

  

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• I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

  

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• However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

  

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• The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.

  

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• As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.

  

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• In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

  

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• I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.

  

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• I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.

  

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• I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

  

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• I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

  

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• I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.

  

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• Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

  

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• The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before.

  

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• The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.

  

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• If somebody judges me, then they're not my people, and that's all right.

  

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• ...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person who insists on having a penny without God, wants to have a penny all for himself. He thereby chooses mammon. A penny is enough, the choice is made, he has chosen mammon; that it is little makes not the slightest difference. The love of God is hatred of the world and love of the world hatred of God.

  

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• Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - Rock and Roll or Christianity.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Music
  • Possession