John Lennon Quotes

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

John Lennon The Beatles

• Love
• Peace
• Rich
• Guilt

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• The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Family
  • Business
  • Job

• You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Me
  • Act
  • Course

• I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Together
  • Day
  • End

• Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Matter
  • Say
  • Wrong

• The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Age
  • Me
  • Attention

• I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mistakes
  • Very
  • Scale

• Well who's black and what is a black person?

  

  Pam Grier
  • Black
  • Person
  • Well

• 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

• I like my world to be calm.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • World
  • Like
  • Calm

• I like power and I like to use it.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Power
  • Like
  • Use

• I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Up
  • Love
  • May

• On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.

  

  Oren Peli
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Time
  • Why
  • Violence

• We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Learn
  • Rich
  • Cost

• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Space

• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Today
  • Nuclear Weapons

• He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Intelligent
  • Become
  • Far

• I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on the issue of gay rights. It is not easy to stand up on that issue when you are single and male in New York City. I did it anyway.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Up
  • Good
  • Country

• Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.

  

  Imelda May
  • Great
  • Music
  • Coming

• While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • Work
  • Today

• We picked up Madonna at The Ritz to go to the Gaultier show together, and she took off her coat. At this point she hadn’t even said a word to me, but she leaned over and said to me, Anna, I have a surprise for you, and she showed me she was wearing my dress.

  

  Anna Sui
  • Up
  • She
  • Together

• We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Stop
  • Desire
  • Progress

• Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Love
  • Peace
  • Rich