Paul McCartney Quotes
Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
Quotes to Explore
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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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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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.
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If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.
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It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that things have become worse. And I've suspected that this optimism blinds many in Silicon Valley to the real struggles in other parts of the country. So I decided to move home to Ohio.
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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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If you look at Victorian England, being a soldier was considered a noble profession.
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My blood did leap, my flesh did revel,Saul Kane was tokened to the devil.
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I like some pants; I just don't like jeans very much. Dresses are so much easier because I don't have to think very hard.
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Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
