John Lennon Quotes
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.
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Every single year, I tell myself I am going to drive. It never happens. I don't know how to drive. I am already 20. This needs to happen.
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Democracy is dead in the Maldives.
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You really have to love every single bit of what you do. The moment that you do something that makes you feel queasy to your stomach, the company dies.
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Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.
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We're mostly macrobiotic, but sometimes I take the family out for a pizza.
