John Lennon Quotes

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

John Lennon The Beatles

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• Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.

  

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• Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

  

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• It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

  

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• As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.

  

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• Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

  

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• The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

  

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• Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.

  

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• Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.

  

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• Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

  

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• I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'

  

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• As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.

  

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• I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.

  

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• Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.

  

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• It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.

  

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• I was raised thinking that the world would end in 1975 - that Armageddon would come when I was 18 years old.

  

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• The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

  

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• I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

  

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• My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out the best art in black people. The best example is, Reagan and Bush gave us the best years of hiphop.

  

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• The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.

  

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• When I had photographed Prince William's mother, I brought along a CD of Dalida, a French singer, that we played on set all day to relax everyone. I decided to do the same thing for Catherine and William. The contrast of the contemporary informal music playing in the beautiful rooms with so much history caused a lot of laughter.

  

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• If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Music
  • Art
  • Egomaniac