John Lennon Quotes
I was looking for a name like the Crickets that meant two things, and from crickets I got to beetles. And I changed to B E A because … B E E T L E S didn't mean two things, so I changed … the E to an A. And it meant two things then. … When you said it, people thought of crawly things; and when you read it, it was beat music.
Quotes to Explore
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
Federica Mogherini
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
Malcolm Wallop
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
Natalia Tena
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I think America has a brilliant future.
Harold Evans
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
Harrison Ford
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Samuel Johnson
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
Randeep Hooda
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
Victor Webster
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
Oprah Winfrey
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
Gary Hamel
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
Ingrid Betancourt
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
Ice Cube
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I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
Harold Prince
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I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
Ramakrishna
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I want to write songs and play them for people - live.
T Bone Burnett
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Acting is a form of confession.
Tallulah Bankhead
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The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I've always loved collecting arts and crafts - I have pieces by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and William Morris at home in east London.
Jonathan Anderson
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Resistance to oppression is second nature.
Seneca the Younger
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I always take care to have interesting chord progressions, because you can have the best sound design in the club, and you'll kill it in the club, but in five years, kids will have better sound design. But if your music is good, you'll always be able to listen to it, even in 20 or 50 years.
Anton Zaslavski
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I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.
AnnaLynne McCord
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For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
Martin Luther
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I was looking for a name like the Crickets that meant two things, and from crickets I got to beetles. And I changed to B E A because … B E E T L E S didn't mean two things, so I changed … the E to an A. And it meant two things then. … When you said it, people thought of crawly things; and when you read it, it was beat music.
John Lennon The Beatles