John Lennon Quotes

Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.

John Lennon The Beatles

• Life
• Dream
• The Beatles
• Second World War
• Glenn Miller

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• Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Past
  • Door
  • Angry

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• 'YouKu' means what's best and what's cool in Chinese. So, the whole product philosophy really revolves around how to help users, from a massive video database, finds what's best and what's cool.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Help
  • Best
  • Cool

• When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Attention
  • Say
  • Everyone

• I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Feet

• Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Kids
  • Model
  • Inspiration

• I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • God
  • Stop
  • Day

• Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Education
  • Attention
  • Never

• It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Space
  • Driving
  • Healthy

• I used to be able to eat and drink whatever I wanted. But now, when I'm in a suit and tie all the time, sitting and being driven, you can just feel your body.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Time
  • Body
  • Drink

• My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Good
  • Music
  • Father

• It isn't hard to be in a relationship because I've always loved to be in a relationship, and I love to be in love.

  

  Usher
  • Love
  • Relationship
  • Loved

• If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Happy
  • Die
  • Perfect

• I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Problem
  • Belief
  • Dignity

• It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Play
  • Acting
  • Television

• 'Cake Boss' does massive, massive things, which are great.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Great
  • Boss
  • Cake

• I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Thinking
  • Cooking
  • Relaxing

• Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Democracy

• I was at the job of reading it for days and days, endlessly daunted and halted by its laborious dullness, its flatulent fatuity, its almost fabulous inconsequentiality. (On H. G. Wells' Joan and Peter) Ch. 2, 'The Late Mr. Wells'

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Job
  • Reading

• The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Rock
  • Ego

• All we are is our ideas, or people. That's what keeps us going to work in the morning, to hang around these great bright people. I've always thought that recruiting is the heart and soul of what we do.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • People
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I don't play accurately — any one can play accurately — but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Science
  • Play

• In the end we're all searching for our home, that one place where we belong.

  

  Masiela Lusha
  • Home

• Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Life
  • Dream
  • The Beatles