John Lennon Quotes
It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting off certain areas for Yoko Ono. She's a red hot liberationistand was quick to show me where I was going wrong, even though it seemed to me that I was just acting naturally. That's why I'm always interested to know how people who claim to be radical treat women.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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I watched the Disney Channel all the time growing up. 'Lizzie McGuire' was my all-time favorite. I'm pretty sure I had every piece of merchandise that involved Lizzie. And I loved 'That's So Raven.'
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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You should have certainty in what you do. Anyone who has done anything in this world was hated. If you're not hated, you've done nothing.
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You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.
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I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.
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We got guys who can score. Everybody knows guys can score.
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There is hope for humanity, but in order for us to get there, we really have to interrogate not just what it takes to change laws, but what it takes to change culture that supports laws that uplift humanity and also supports laws that serve to denigrate it.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.
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I like cartoons. I like 'Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.' It's funny! It has things that kids wouldn't get. It's like, if you're mature, you get it. I like that and 'The Fairly OddParents.'
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I didn't get married until I was forty because I wanted to be stable when I got married. I think I just avoided my first marriage and went right to the second. It's sort of how I see it. When you're young, just trying to make it, and trying to find your way in the world, and figure things out... being married is not easy.
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It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting off certain areas for Yoko Ono. She's a red hot liberationistand was quick to show me where I was going wrong, even though it seemed to me that I was just acting naturally. That's why I'm always interested to know how people who claim to be radical treat women.
