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.
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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.
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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.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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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.
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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.
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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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.'
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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.
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I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
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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.
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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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I want to write songs and play them for people - live.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.
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I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You're using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time.
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There's plenty of people who can sing OK that make terrific records, and I love them from afar. But when I make a record, I need great voices. That's always my mandate.
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Why tell a story that people have seen 900 times? That's not interesting artistically.
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The art is about opening, it is not about prejudice, it is not about contempt prior to investigation. It's about endlessly trying to keep from having contempt by admitting that you don't know. Even if you know a lot compared to some other people, usually, I think, the honest experience would be: "God, how little I know! And how much I need to have compassion for myself and for other people."
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There are parts of New Zealand that I absolutely fell in love with that I will miss going back to, but I kind of think that is the part that can continue and will continue on. I don't imagine I'll stop going back to New Zealand, because I feel part of the fabric there, really.
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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.
