Paul McCartney Quotes
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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Sometimes we do things that are really awful.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.
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We ought to be able to forgo the constant need to raise money and just focus on working together to solve the problems this country faces.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
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Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
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When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.
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I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.
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The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
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Don’t we all know how to ask questions? Of course we think we know how to ask, but we fail to notice how often even our questions are just another form of telling—rhetorical or just testing whether what we think is right. We are biased toward telling instead of asking because we live in a pragmatic, problem-solving culture in which knowing things and telling others what we know is valued.
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From here in Iowa, it seems to be the wealthy and big corporations get enough help.
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I don't think Neil Young has a beautiful voice, but it's something that grabs you, and the songs are so good.
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I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.
