Paul McCartney Quotes
I have such an admiration for John [Lennon], like most people. But to be the guy who wrote with him, well that's enough. Right there you could retire and go, 'Jesus I had a fantastic life. Take me, Lord.'
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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(On H.P.B) Helena Petrovna Blavatsky And we, who lived around her, who in closest intimacy watched her day after day, we bear witness to the unselfish beauty of her life, the nobility of her character, and we lay at her feet our most reverent gratitude for knowledge gained, lives purified, strength developed.
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We always had a lot of admiration for feminists who were out there trying to change things for the better for women, who were trying to find equality in the workplace and at home.
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We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
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When you ask, did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.
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Love is just a four letter word! Because that’s what it is for me! I don’t know what it means... I mean, love didn’t work, whatever the hell that is, in my life. Alone I am. I’m not particularly into self-love either. I’m quite prepared to die. And all the objects of my love slowly trail off.
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I have such an admiration for John [Lennon], like most people. But to be the guy who wrote with him, well that's enough. Right there you could retire and go, 'Jesus I had a fantastic life. Take me, Lord.'
