John Lennon Quotes

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John Lennon The Beatles

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• If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of work, you can't throw your eggs into one basket because you might have to move. I'm not big on 'things,' though, so I don't own TVs, couches or cars because I wouldn't know where to put them.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Work
  • Long
  • Know

• I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Star
  • Religion
  • Belief

• It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Belief
  • Strength

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Women
  • Interesting

• I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Hands

• The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Problem
  • Trump
  • Exist

• A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Crazy
  • Ignorant
  • Newspaper

• Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Always
  • Island
  • Hawaii

• Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Believe
  • Him
  • Recognized

• It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Life
  • Real
  • Simple

• My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.

  

  Cam
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I think most music provides the same messages - whether it be 'I'm unhappy' or 'I love a girl.' I just liked the package of rap music.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Unhappy

• North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Way
  • Child
  • Breath

• I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Lyrics
  • Strange

• I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Baby
  • Innovation
  • Clothes

• If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.

  

  B. B. King
  • Me
  • Single
  • Woman

• The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

• I don't have a real attraction or interest to national politics, so I want to see Republicans win across the board in the state of Arizona, because those policies of lower taxes and lighter regulation and strong foreign policy are important to me.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Important
  • Real
  • Strong

• Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

  

  Andy Gibb
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fun

• I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
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• Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the service and convenience of mankind. But Freemasonry, embracing a wider range and having a nobler object in view, namely, the cultivation and improvement of the human mind, may with more propriety be called a science, inasmuch as, availing itself of the terms of the former, it inculcates the principles of the purest morality, though its lessons are for the most part veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Mankind

• In the gospel of Jesus Christ, there is no place for ridicule, bullying, or bigotry.

  

  Neil L. Andersen
  • Christ
  • Bullying
  • Bigotry

• Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them...

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
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