Paul McCartney Quotes

Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.

Paul McCartney The Beatles

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• Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.

  

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• Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
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• I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

  

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• I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.

  

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• I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

  

  Kate Moss
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• I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.

  

  Kaskade
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• I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

  

  Imelda Marcos
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  • Hate
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• I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

  

  Nate Berkus
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• The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.

  

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• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
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• How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

  

  Karen Gillan
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• Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.

  

  Laraine Day
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• I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
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• I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
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  • Beautiful
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• When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

  

  G-Eazy
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• I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.

  

  R. Kelly
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• When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• Serious beliefs are awkward, especially religious ones. It's not that there's anything wrong with them, it's just that people's real, heart-felt, deeply held beliefs are, well, 'not easy to handle or deal with, requiring great skill, ingenuity, or care' - in a word, awkward.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • People
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• For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road; the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Student
  • History
  • Law

• Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Wear

• Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • People
  • Stop
  • Criticism