Paul McCartney Quotes

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

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• When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Distance
  • Run

• I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Think
  • Idea
  • Text

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Question
  • Health
  • Healthy

• Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Character

• A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Together
  • Taken
  • Ability

• When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Green

• Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • You
  • Support
  • Tax

• Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Remember
  • American
  • Right

• I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Different
  • Death
  • Thought

• You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Hero
  • Brave

• Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Book
  • Knowledge

• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Happiness
  • Cause
  • Others

• I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.

  

  Laura Linney
  • World
  • Home
  • Greatest

• Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

  

  Floyd Patterson
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Scared

• I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Interests
  • Servant
  • Investors

• Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Different
  • Evolution
  • Brains

• Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.

  

  Jasper Fforde

• I do get a bit of a sense, just from e-mails some people send me, just a little sense of how people in different countries seem to respond differently to certain lines in a song.

  

  Gotye
  • People
  • Different
  • Song

• He toss my salad like his name Romaine

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Names
  • Bragging
  • Salad

• The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • People
  • Creative
  • Others

• Thou shall love the Lord with thy whole heart, soul, and mind. This is the commandment of the Great God, and he cannot command the impossible. Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice by an intense inner life. There is no limit because God is love, love is God, God's love is infinite. But part is to love and to give until it hurts. That's why it is not how much you do, but how much love you put into the action.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • God
  • Mind
  • Heart

• There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

  

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