John Lennon Quotes

What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.

John Lennon The Beatles

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• Records
• Fame

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• I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Child

• In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.

  

  Becky G
  • Inspiration
  • motivation
  • Industry

• No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • War
  • Political
  • Always

• If you're not in it you can't win it.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
  • Win

• The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Power
  • Political
  • Happiness

• Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Inspiration
  • Consciousness
  • Self-Consciousness

• Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Money
  • Power
  • Shadow

• Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Israel
  • Bank
  • West

• I do believe in the potential of like-minded people coming together.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Believe
  • Together

• I don't do office work at home.

  

  A. K. Antony
  • Work
  • Home
  • Office

• Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Christian
  • Born
  • Well

• When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With a real historical figure you have to be fair, and this is not an obligation you have in dealing with your own creations, so it is quite different.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Real

• I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.

  

  Usher
  • Music
  • Image
  • Daddy

• I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.

  

  Vince Cable
  • People
  • Fear
  • Problems

• I loved doing 'Homeland.' I loved playing Brody.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Doing
  • Loved
  • Homeland

• But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Animal

• A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Window
  • Through
  • Nose

• I think that if you're doing a new musical, you want to have the opportunity to experiment and try things without the whole city of critics looking over your shoulder.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • City

• One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Long
  • Human

• Being a star and having money do not make for a happy person.

  

  Ken Kercheval
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Star

• When I moved to New York City from Israel, I came here with the idea to get a great job, have tons of fun, and make a lot of money. Growing up in Israel, I watched a lot of American TV, and I thought it's what the 'cool' people did, and I wanted the same thing.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• ...there is no old age of the soul.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Soul

• Every session attended by the analyst must have no history and no future. What is 'known' about the patient is of no further consequence: it is either false or irrelevant. If it is 'known' by patient and analyst, it is obsolete....The only point of importance in any session is the unknown. Nothing must be allowed to distract from intuiting that. In any session, evolution takes place. Out of the darkness and formlessness something evolves.

  

  Wilfred Bion
  • History
  • Darkness
  • Evolution

• What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Money
  • Records
  • Fame