John Lennon Quotes
I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.
Quotes to Explore
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
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I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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There always have been funny women.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me.
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I buy food and gasoline - that's it.
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I don't take vacations.
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I just love scary stuff! I'm a huge horror buff.
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As a parent, I can get so frustrated. Any parent can!
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I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.
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The American people overwhelmingly want to see smart policy that secures our families, our borders, and our economy.
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If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.
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Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant.
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We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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I don't want to be an object of consumption. I like to get out there and participate because I care about it. It's not because I've gotten filthy rich off the hides of young skaters that I feel some sickening obligation to act on, and make myself look like I'm not that bad of a guy. It's because I actually care.
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In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.
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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.
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I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.
