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.
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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.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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'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.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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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.
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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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.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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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.
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My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
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If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.
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I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity.
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It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.
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'Cake Boss' does massive, massive things, which are great.
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I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.
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Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters.
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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'
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In England a man is presoomed to be innocent till he's proved guilty an' they take it f 'r granted he's guilty. In this counthry a man is presoomed to be guilty ontil he's proved guilty an' afther that he's presoomed to be innocent.
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There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.
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We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.
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The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.
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Our country is not in crisis; there are no tanks in the streets. No matter what the outcome of the president's situation, life in America will go on. Our lives will continue to be filled with practical matters, not constitutional ones.
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I'm going to make the playoffs. You can believe that. To never play in the playoffs, that will not be my legacy.
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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.
