Paul McCartney Quotes

Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.

Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings

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• Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Remember
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn't prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Home
  • Friends

• I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
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• That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Want
  • Opportunity
  • Old

• A Constitution should be short and obscure.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Constitution
  • Short
  • Obscure

• I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Day
  • Acting
  • Said

• We should all love animals.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Love
  • Should
  • Animals

• Conversations between parents and kids are important - about race issues, about all kinds of things, about heritage.

  

  Garcelle Beauvais
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Good
  • Music
  • Think

• I been doing music my whole life.

  

  Young Buck
  • Life
  • Music
  • Doing

• There's footage of me bouncing around, all uncoordinated, trying to work out how on earth you're supposed to do a rising trot on a really extravagant moving eventing horse.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Earth

• I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Trying
  • Know
  • Same

• I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Doing

• I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Food
  • Eat
  • Vegetables

• I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It's not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Home
  • Truth
  • Girl

• I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Up
  • Age
  • Player

• I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Time
  • Education
  • Study

• I spent some time at a university for traditional Chinese medicine. There's a resurgence of people eating according to traditional Chinese medicine. So our challenge is, How do you marry traditional Chinese medicine with PepsiCo's products?

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • People
  • Time
  • Challenge

• With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.

  

  Marketa Irglova
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Character

• The president typically never does comment on anything involving the Supreme Court cases, Supreme Court ruling, or Supreme Court finding, typically.

  

  Ari Fleischer

• Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Service
  • Public
  • Times

• If you're a wrestling fan, and you watch it on TV, that's great, but there's nothing quite like being there live.

  

  Dean Ambrose
  • Great
  • Live
  • Wrestling

• I do limit my exposure to the public. You only have so much time.

  

  Donald Bren
  • Time

• Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings