John Lennon Quotes
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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There's no business like show business.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
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I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
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He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
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Whoever comes to me, will be free and equal, because I am freedom.
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AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.
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I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.
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You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value.
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When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.
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I really thought that love would save us all.
