John Lennon Quotes
What I'm trying to do is to influence all the people I can influence. All those who are still under the dream and just put a big question mark in their mind. The acid dream is over, that is what I'm trying to tell them.
Quotes to Explore
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
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The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.
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If you've never been to one of my concerts. I want you to know that it is OK to scream and yell.
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One of the greatest benefits to come out of 'Lean In' was convincing women to help and support other women - not out of this sense of duty and that you'd be condemned to hell forever if you didn't, but because it will make all your lives better.
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It is said that the children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up.
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I love trashy reality TV - all of it.
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When people meet me, they say that I'm really kind - contrary to a lot of my music.
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What I'm trying to do is to influence all the people I can influence. All those who are still under the dream and just put a big question mark in their mind. The acid dream is over, that is what I'm trying to tell them.
