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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You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.
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Philosophically I am, or at least have been, a follower of Sartre. I am very interested in the choices we make, or don't make, in life-defining matters. That moment of 'angst' and its consequences can be such a cruel thing.
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I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased to explore new music, or at least music that is new to them, because they are so glued to the past.
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If we would regain our freedom, we must shake off the burden of sensation, no longer react to the world by our senses, break our bonds. For all sensation is a bond, pleasure as much as pain, joy as much as misery. The only free mind is the one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.
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I do not think one should chase the fashions of the day, concerning neither sweaters nor opinions.
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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.'
