Paul McCartney Quotes

I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe.

Paul McCartney The Beatles

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• North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Technology

• If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • House
  • You

• The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Business
  • You
  • Know

• Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Great
  • Music
  • Pressure

• I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Night
  • Food

• My parents were both entrepreneurs.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Parents
  • Both
  • Were

• Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Cold
  • Sea
  • Spring

• I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Song
  • Kind

• Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Home
  • Night
  • Alone

• In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Better
  • Songs
  • Exciting

• I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Done
  • Wonder
  • Tough

• Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Acting
  • Living
  • Creating

• 'Vanity' means worthlessness.

  

  Vanity
  • Means
  • Vanity
  • Worthlessness

• I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Myself
  • Opinions

• In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Different
  • May
  • Government

• I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot of the more gloomy predictions.

  

  John Howard
  • Challenge

• I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Love
  • Change
  • Team

• I like black for clothes, small items, and jewelry. It's a color that can't be violated by any other colors. A color that simply keeps being itself. A color that sinks more somberly than any other color, yet asserts itself more than all other colors. It's a passionate gallant color. Anything is wonderful if it transcends things rather than being halfway.

  

  Yana Toboso
  • Black
  • Small
  • Color

• Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• As her skin sizzled under the delicious heat, she supposed she should’ve been giving serious thought to the lunacy of what she was doing playing with a vampire, who was, for all his charm, as lethal as a stiletto across the throat. But then again, most of her friends already thought she was half a nut short of a fruitcake. Why disappoint?

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Why
  • She
  • Friends

• I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Song