Paul McCartney Quotes

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

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• I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

  

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• I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.

  

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• I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

  

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• All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.

  

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• Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.

  

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• The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

  

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• I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

  

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• I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.

  

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• Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

  

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• Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.

  

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• Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.

  

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• Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

  

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• Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

  

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• I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.

  

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• If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.

  

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• While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'

  

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• Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

  

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• In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.

  

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• There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.

  

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• I've never had anyone just stick their hands through my hair. Yet. If they ask, I go, 'OK, you can, if you want to. It's probably just going to feel like most people's.' I take it as a compliment.

  

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• How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

  

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• Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Funny