John Lennon Quotes

"I've always thought there was this underlying thing in Paul's "Get Back." When we were in the studio recording it, every time he sang the line "Get back to where you once belonged," he'd look at Yoko."

John Lennon The Beatles

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• Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Good
  • Practice

• Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • High
  • Used
  • Extremely

• To be a more efficient, faster, and cheaper way to send money around the world, you have to be able to get in and out of Bitcoin. You need to have a liquid exchange on either end of the corridor.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • World
  • Money
  • End

• I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Love

• All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Together
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Like
  • Flying
  • Scared

• And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Good
  • Day
  • End

• I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Work
  • Responsibility

• My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Great
  • Music
  • She

• I've played sports and been active my whole life.

  

  Warren Christie
  • Life
  • Sports
  • Active

• I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Government
  • Best
  • Decisions

• I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Up
  • California
  • Berkeley

• I feel like J. K. Rowling's world is one that is owned by everyone in some ways. People have grown up with it and have such a sense of that universe that there's something kind of wonderful seeing everyone get involved.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • True
  • Woman
  • Image

• A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.

  

  Washed Out
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• I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • You
  • Years
  • Radio

• Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Life
  • Control
  • Life Is A

• There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of Democratic mythology, ghostwritten for an ambitious young Massachusetts Senator who never did a thing for himself if he could pay to have it done by others.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Done
  • Courage
  • Selfless

• Our passions are most like to floods and streams;The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Deep
  • Dumb

• At the end of a long campaign, I believe I know the people of our state as well as anyone. Based on this knowledge of Georgians North and South, Rural and Urban, liberal and conservative, I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I am eternally 12 years old. I don't know if that's good or bad, but I like to have a good time!

  

  Jimi Westbrook Little Big Town
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• …death came so easily, hardly announced, without apparent cause, often greeted with smiles.

  

  Anthony Burgess

• Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad and the limitations of its provisions are not clearly marked. Its majestic generalities and ennobling pronouncements are both luminous and obscure. This ambiguity of course calls forth interpretation, the interaction of reader and text. The encounter with the Constitutional text has been, in many senses, my life's work.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Reading
  • Constitution
  • Aspiration

• "I've always thought there was this underlying thing in Paul's "Get Back." When we were in the studio recording it, every time he sang the line "Get back to where you once belonged," he'd look at Yoko."

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
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