Paul McCartney Quotes
I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.
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In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out by crows.
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My formal speaking career began before a group of 10 third-graders. We drew pictures of my home in Rwanda. I told them about my mother's huge garden and our mango tree. The lessons I taught were simple. Play nicely. Take care of plants. Take care of people.
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You've got to understand what makes the character human.
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I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'
