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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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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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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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
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I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness.
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The corporations are shoving just the worst music down everybody's throats, and I think the result of that is that nobody has any taste. They have no bar as to what is good.
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I really thought that love would save us all.
