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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This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this.
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Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.
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Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.
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We're mostly macrobiotic, but sometimes I take the family out for a pizza.
