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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The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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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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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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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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The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
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There are moments in 'Body Snatchers' that touch the sort of thing that I find scary... like isolation and the inability to trust even familiar things. But - is that a horror movie - or a thriller? I don't really know the difference.
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There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.
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Some characters think more like me than others; some think more like my dad or someone else. It certainly is made up of my experiences, things I've heard, things I think are funny, things I think are sad. There's sort of a strange, blurry version of yourself in there.
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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.'
