John Lennon Quotes
I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background and we reflected our thoughts in what we sang, and that's all people are doing.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.
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I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
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Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.
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I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
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I buy way too many books.
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.
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I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.
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Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.
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There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
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The scientific effort to inform the public about landslide risks often runs head-on into powerful economic interests.
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Nobody loses gracefully and easily, but there is a way to go about it.
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I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty.
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None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background and we reflected our thoughts in what we sang, and that's all people are doing.
