John Lennon Quotes

I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

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• It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
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• The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
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• The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

  

  Carl Jung
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• But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Think
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• Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

  

  Marat Safin
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• I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.

  

  Zosia Mamet
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• I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Past
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• I loved experiencing city life in New York.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
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• I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Life
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• If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
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• Harvard is the home of American ideas.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Up
  • Age
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• I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
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• I think that when the social stakes for people are higher, how you present yourself may sometimes feel like it's going to inform your destiny. Because if other people regard you in a certain way, they'll want to help you, and you will end up having a career.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.

  

  Ted Hughes
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• How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • Important
  • Business

• Television was essentially my college.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • College
  • Television

• I've made the film 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird,' which was an Eastern Western film. Obviously, the Western film is American and American only; there's really no Western genre over in Asia.

  

  Kim Jee-woon
  • Good
  • American
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• I start the day with the intention of doing 4,000 sit-ups but then have to work.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Work
  • Day
  • Start

• My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Long
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• For sure, Potrero Chico is a super nice winter vacation climbing area. It's really convenient to fly into Monterrey, one of the nicer cities in Mex, and get a taxi to Potero. Then you can just live in the camping area and walk everywhere. It's muy tranquilo, as they say there.

  

  Alex Honnold
  • Live
  • Nice
  • Fly

• I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

  

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