John Lennon Quotes
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
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I'm not a Republican.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
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Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.
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I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
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The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
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I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
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When I first started doing press, one of the things people started pushing was this idea that I'd somehow escaped something. And I was really offended, because I hadn't escaped anything.
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Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.
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A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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That experience with 'Rent' went by so fast. I was younger. I didn't even really know what opening night was. And now I'm thinking back on the times I went to Broadway as a kid and the excitement I felt... And I'm realizing that I'm actually a part of that, so I'm learning to take it in, 'cause so often I shrug it away.
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Several particular maxims... are as powerful, although false, in carrying away belief, as those the most true.
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My parents were extremely liberal. They didn't believe in being Catholic or Protestant, and that was a big deal at the time.
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Hmm, can I be obvious and say there is probably a double standard for male vs. female directors? Sadly, I think that's actually the case. And it probably stems from the fact that there are proportionately so many fewer women directors than men ones that each project is perhaps more closely scrutinized for its content.
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In the great fulfillment we must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
