John Lennon Quotes

We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.

John Lennon The Beatles

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• I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Mind
  • Changes
  • Drink

• I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Like
  • Things
  • Characters

• In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Up
  • Time
  • City

• Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Great
  • Women
  • Strong

• I want to know what it's like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Great
  • Want
  • Career

• I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Play
  • Always
  • Start

• I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Want
  • Game
  • Negative

• There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.

  

  Harold Prince
  • College
  • Question
  • Never

• I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • House
  • Ever
  • Transfer

• Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Dinner
  • Electricity
  • Table

• All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Long
  • Past
  • Creativity

• I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Work
  • New
  • Head

• Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Wealth
  • Lead
  • Inequalities

• I was ten years old when my first 'Vogue' cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Fashion
  • Against
  • Obsession

• I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Time
  • War
  • Acting

• Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Life
  • Time
  • Death

• Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first 'Vogue' cover. It was French 'Vogue' – I think in '87 or '88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, 'Oh, no. We've never had that before.'

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Think
  • Never
  • Model

• It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Myself
  • Forward
  • Confident

• Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • People
  • Words
  • Powerful

• I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Bad
  • Exercise
  • Eating

• I have personal problems like other people have termites.

  

  Alice Hastings Bradley
  • Problems
  • Personal

• We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • President
  • Problems