Paul McCartney Quotes

It's like there was me, then the Beatles phase, and now I'm me again.

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• I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Attention
  • Child
  • Teenager

• The best migrant is the migrant who does not come.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Best
  • Come
  • Migrant

• Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Real
  • Integrity
  • The Right Thing

• I think a lot of people on Twitter say, 'Oh you're really cute. I want to adopt you,' and things like that, yeah.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Think
  • Cute

• The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Mind
  • Knowledge
  • Know

• Raising three boys is a huge responsibility for me, especially in this day and time when I look around and there's a lack of good, strong, upstanding Christian men who are not afraid to be men and just own up to their responsibility.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I recently caught myself giving a pretty girl the cold shoulder because I felt intimidated. She was so gorgeous, and it made me feel insecure. I wasn't even aware until someone pointed it out to me. I was so embarrassed! I recognized those thoughts and made a point to be more friendly to her because there was no reason to be cold.

  

  Lilly Singh
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• How do you change the world? Bring people together. Where is the easiest big place to bring people together? In the work environment.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.

  

  Ken Thompson
  • Serious
  • Mistake

• Competition is always there.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya
  • Competition

• When you cut from a long shot to a close shot, you're doing it for a reason, or if you let something stay in long shot for a long take. On the short films, I was teaching myself how to express something personal cinematically, how to use the language of film the best I could.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Long

• If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it's one person completely controlling another one.

  

  Kevin Bales
  • History
  • Religious
  • Slavery

• To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

  

  Emil Zatopek
  • Interesting
  • Stupid

• The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.

  

  Leos Carax
  • World
  • Believe
  • Enemy

• We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

  

  John Charles Polanyi
  • Science
  • Freedom
  • Breathe

• I can be much more creative with my menus in the casino cities. In New York, there are certain things I can't make. In Las Vegas, they're much more receptive. Rabbit, some seafoods - they won't necessarily do well in New York, but I'll try them in Las Vegas, and they'll be a success.

  

  Joel Robuchon
  • Success
  • Vegas

• There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from which we might gain perspective on our amazing universe and the nature of existence.

  

  John Archibald Wheeler
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Nature

• Law of Attraction is Universal, and every person is affected by it. And it is always true that what I think and what I feel and what I get are always a match.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Law
  • Feels
  • Persons

• This skin, this hair, all this outside stuff. It isn't me. It's just my package. It's like the wrapper around the sweet; it isn't the sweet itself. What we really are is all inside the package. All our feelings. All our good moods and bad moods. All our ideas, our cleverness, our love, that's what a person really is.

  

  Colin Cotterill
  • Love
  • Ideas
  • Person

• Even if I did speak Irish, I’d always be considered an outsider here, wouldn’t I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won’t it? The private core will always be ...hermetic, won’t it?

  

  Brian Friel
  • Language
  • Irish
  • Considered

• A child equals the mass of Fairyland times the speed of luck squared.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Child
  • Luck
  • Speed

• It's like there was me, then the Beatles phase, and now I'm me again.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Phases