John Lennon Quotes

I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George Harrison would sit me down and make me listen.

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• The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Problem
  • Impossible
  • Rich

• Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • World
  • Mind
  • Living

• The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Patriotism
  • Height
  • July

• In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Good
  • Light
  • Goals

• At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk - games I find far less addictive than the spectacular games created for consoles these days. But, whenever I get the chance, I head over to my friend Kyri's house to play his PS3.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Home
  • House
  • Friend

• I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Thought

• Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Market
  • Destroyed
  • Domestic

• I'm from a salt-of-the-earth, working-class, northern background. My dad's a steelworker and a firefighter, and my mum is a secretary for the NHS.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Earth
  • Dad
  • Background

• I started off doing theater as a kid, and I always played a character. I hid behind the script and was told where to go. But to actually perform as yourself is very difficult. I didn't used to enjoy it, but now I do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Character
  • Enjoy
  • Yourself

• There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around, but now I don't. No more diets to stay slim and desirable: I've had sex and I've had food, and I'd rather eat.

  

  Florence King
  • Food
  • Sex

• I do think I tend to be typecast, but it doesn't necessarily bother me.

  

  Jodelle Ferland

• My life was filled with family in South Sudan. I am the seventh of nine children, and we grew up in what would be considered a middle-class family. We did not have a lot, but we did have more than a lot of other people.

  

  Alek Wek
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• For American families, Universal pre-K is an essential piece of the puzzle that not only allows their kids to get a good start, but it also allows mothers to remain on the job earning a paycheck and helping our economy grow.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Good
  • Job
  • Kids

• What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Power

• My grandmother's apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.

  

  Arnon Goldfinger
  • World
  • Grandmother

• I guess I don't really believe in retirement. I believe in shorter days and maybe in weekends!

  

  Alice Waters
  • Believe
  • Retirement

• We just have to accept who we are, and I'm a film nerd, for better or worse.

  

  Max Minghella
  • Nerd

• The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.

  

  Danny Aiello

• I can't quite say that I was raised Muslim, but I remember up until 5 or so I would pray, you know, with my dad. And it's actually a beautiful practice. It's giving of yourself to a higher power - no matter what you call that higher power. Living your life as close to what you think that higher power wants you to be is a really powerful thing.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Life
  • Up
  • Power

• Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recent recasting of 'Cinderella' as a cyborg in the young adult novel 'Cinder,' we know that there are countless modern retellings of the tale.

  

  Marie Rutkoski
  • Disney
  • Blonde
  • Cinderella

• I have not seen 'Legally Blonde.' I must be in the small, ever-dwindling minority on that one.

  

  Alfred Enoch
  • Small
  • Blonde

• It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.

  

  P. D. James
  • Long
  • Live
  • Wisdom

• If any student of social science comes to appreciate the case of the Forgotten Man, he will become an unflinching advocate of strict scientific thinking in sociology, and a hard-hearted skeptic as regards any scheme of social amelioration. He will always want to know, Who and where is the Forgotten Man in this case, who will have to pay for it all?

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Students

• I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George Harrison would sit me down and make me listen.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Blonde
  • Dylan
  • Highway 64