John Lennon Quotes

I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off.

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• The revolution doesn't always look perfect.

  

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• I'm learning slowly to not be as much of a control freak. I can't afford to be all the time, but I'm getting better at communicating. Delegating parts of my vision for other people to execute has made it an easier process for knowing what I want, and what people can handle, and what I should probably save for myself.

  

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• I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.

  

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• I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?

  

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• The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

  

  J. I. Packer
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• The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

  

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• I … started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.

  

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• Super computer will do super computing and will be the reason for super commitment. - Modi in Kazakhstan July 2015

  

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• God, beam me up!

  

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• There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment. When a man is contented he goes to sleep. Voltaire had no chance to be contented, and so he wrote eternally and unceasingly, more than any other man in the history of the world.

  

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• If you're going to think mean things about me or not be a true friend, then we don't need to be friends.

  

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• A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

  

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• Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.

  

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• I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background, on the protagonist's response to a situation being inappropriate, and so on.

  

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• Russia on its path has oftentimes discussed and overdiscussed what had happened earlier, instead of moving forward. The result is always the same: It is very difficult to move forward when you're looking backward.

  

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  • Mistake
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• I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Police
  • Maoists