John Lennon Quotes
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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The challenges we face are never as important as the challenges we face up to.
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When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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I do not find that I feel myself to be any different as an English subject than as an American. I have not the vote in either place, so I am not a citizen of either, and have no call to be patriotic. In fact, I do not see how women can ever feel like anything but aliens in whatever country they may live, for they have no part or lot in any, except the part and lot of being taxed and legislated for by men.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.
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All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.
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I just wanted to be a working character actor.
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I was always open to whatever made me feel something, which allowed me to branch off to these other genres comfortably because it was genuinely who I was.
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The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.
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If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't like, then you tend not to appreciate the cultural lessons you're learning.
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It isn't the thing you do, dear, it's the thing you leave undone which gives you a bit of heartache at the setting at the setting of the sun.
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I've always been politically minded and against the status quo. It's pretty basic when you're brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere.
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When you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.
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At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.
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I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.
