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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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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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 director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
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Shoot, man, I love everybody! I don't have time to hate.
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The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.
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The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. 'I am no such thing,' it would say; 'I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone.
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The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.
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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.
