My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.


John Lennon

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NOEL GALLAGHER
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DON SCARDINO
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KELLY JONES
I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't wa...
KURT COBAIN
You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other...
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If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclin...
SUGATA MITRA
Of course, when I started my career, like anyone else who was 16 at the time, we were besotted by th...
CLIFF RICHARD
My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first mar...
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON
It's tough; John Lennon is a huge icon now ... everybody has their own expectation of how to present...
DON SCARDINO
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
NOVALIS
He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.
CONFUCIUS
If I were John Lennon
And my feelings for you grew,
I'd have left The Beatles
To spen...
LISA SWERLING
John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.
KURT COBAIN
Captain Midlands: "I met the real you once."
John (Lennon) the Skrull: "You're meeting the real...
PAUL CORNELL
What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who h...
PATTI SMITH
John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.
FAY VINCENT
I have no doubt in my mind that we were able to make contact with the spirit of John Lennon. John wa...
JOE POWER
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
There were two people who thought they were the greatest band in the world -- Brian Epstein and John...
LARRY KANE
So many people have approached me and said, 'Can I do a musical of John,' ... It's a very simple ide...
YOKO ONO
We were just trying to cast a great kid that kind of embodied the idea of the character. A young kid...
ALI LEROI
Jimi's music is so universal. And kids who are getting into rock 'n' roll guitar, who's the go-to gu...
EDDIE KRAMER
Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.
CRISS JAMI
A guy who knows the pulse of a team. A guy who knows what's going on, when to back off and when to p...
JEFF ULBRICH
John Lennon was everything his friends wanted to be, and said everything they wanted to say but woul...
MARK LEWISOHN
I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate ...
JENNIFER EGAN
The guy can just roll the rock, period.
CLAY OGDEN
I was a titan, the reincarnation of Alexander the Great. My style was impetuous, my defenses were im...
MIKE TYSON
I’m the guy who knows how you can hurt so much that your insides feel like they’re cut and bleed...
STEPHANIE WITTER
It's like an alarm clock's gone off, and I've just got to get away. I think it was John Lennon who s...
TIM
I like to rock and roll, but I'm a mushy guy, too. I want to be the guy that all the girls love and ...
KENNY CHESNEY
I agree. I don't understand how a guy everyone is terrified of makes me feel safe. I don't understan...
KATIE MCGARRY
It's so hard to get a dismissal at this early stage. But we think this whole thing was conjured up b...
CHARLES F. GAY JR
'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to song...
CHRIS CORNELL
I have no doubt in my mind that we were able to make contact with the spirit of John Lennon.
JOE POWER
The Republicans are not anti-Latinos. You know, I tell the story all the time that the Tea Party is ...
RAUL LABRADOR
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know
RICHARD BURTON
I want a guy who can clean my gutters and kill my spiders - who's simple yet layered.
KELLI GARNER
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BUTCH TRUCKS
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ENRIC SALA
The sun is up, the sky is blue
It's beautiful, and so are you
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It all started with the leadoff guy, a guy who knows the value of getting on base, knows the value o...
BILLY WILLIAMS
John Wayne played a leader; a hero who you would follow, ... He was somebody who would do what he co...
JOHN SCHNEIDER
I don't know if Marcus knows how important that moment was to me. How much he actually saved me from...
CECELIA AHERN
To say how close John and dad were, I'd call him after meets - all the way up till the end. We discu...
BRIAN GRAY
John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of m...
CARTER BURWELL
[14As Lennon stepped off the plane, a reporter came up to him and asked a question. John slapped her...
LARRY KANE
'MacGyver' of course, that's probably my favorite show of all time because it was a guy ...
RHYS DARBY
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CAROLYN MALONEY
The Righteous Brothers got so heavy because of the dramatic hit records like 'Lovin' Feelin....
BILL MEDLEY
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THOMAS STEINBECK
Vicente was the sort of comic book hero, the guy who was going to bring down the regime. There was a...
ARTURO SARUKHAN
He's a guy who has been around and knows what it's all about.
RICK ADDUONO
i didnt understand why my past realationship were so bad now i know so when we meet we had something...
WOW
I always loved to sing so I was going to be the singer. We were looking for a drummer and having pro...
LAURA BACA
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BURT BACHARACH
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TRAVIS BARKER
Everyone in my story has it's own character, GreenHollyWood cheeky, hypocritical and near to mad guy...
DEYTH BANGER
All we are saying is give peace a chance. -John Lennon.
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I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd...
RICHARD GERE
Wenner’s unabashed idol worship had so often embarrassed them—starfucker, they grumbled behind h...
JOE HAGAN
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Great rock n' roll comes from suburbia.
ALVARO ENRIGUE
Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?
BILLY CORGAN
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
We fall into silence and I let out a defeated sigh, resting my head against the cold stone wall. Gre...
BRITTANY DELYS
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when t...
JACOB BRONOWSKI
So Iverson got to know the secretary of agriculture, who was a guy named Ezra Taft Benson,
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Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
IAN DURY
I'm a rock and roll singer.
ADAM ANT
I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a gr...
TAYLOR HAWKINS
There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's...
CARSON MCCULLERS
It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.
PATTI SMITH
A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and...
CHRISTOPHER REEVE
Nikki was always a great support to us all. He was a big part of our past, part of everything we did...
DAVE KUSWORTH
who is my hero of all time.
MERYL STREEP
I'm really happy to have a guy like Brook around, who knows me and what I teach. He'll do great.
RUDY JARAMILLO
I don't know anybody who didn't love Dave Brown. He was a special guy: a special player and a specia...
GARY WRIGHT
I love guys who know how to dress. I love the motorcycle boots, and I love the skinnier jeans with j...
ASHLEY BENSON
John Lennon, Jesus is bigger than The Beatles.
A.J. CHILSON
To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace a...
NOEL GALLAGHER
My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I ...
ALVIN LEE
What does John Kerry think about Iraq? Who knows. Who cares.
TUCKER CARLSON
My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forwa...
JOHN HUGHES
Just the same old me, ... A guy who knows how to make big plays, doesn't make a lot of mistakes and ...
DUANE CLEMONS
I began to doubt that I would ever know the truth of what transpired, or who those people really wer...
JAMES CASKEY
GN'R was five guys who were all into different things. I liked pop and disco, Izzy was into New ...
STEVEN ADLER
My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to ...
YOKO ONO
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
SAUNDERS
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
I was only fond of the music up to a point. Rock and roll wasn't really my love.
DAN HICKS
Maybe sometimes, when I see some kids, you know, with their families. It's making me cry. You kn...
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My biggest hero was Roman Gabriel, who was the QB of the Rams, and Roger Staubach. Those were the tw...
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JOHN LENNON
Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep...
JOHN LENNON
if in doubt f*** it
JOHN LENNON
New York is what Paris was in the twenties. . . the center of the art world. And we want to be in th...
JOHN LENNON
If there's anything that you want, / If there's anything I can do, / Just call on me, / And I'll sen...
JOHN LENNON
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to t...
JOHN LENNON
You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON
…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll o...
JOHN LENNON
Love is a flower you got to let it grow.
JOHN LENNON
Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything...
JOHN LENNON
A more interesting question is not 'Why did they break up?' but 'Would they have gotten back togethe...
JOHN LENNON
Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.
JOHN LENNON
Everybody seems to think I'm lazy
I don't mind, I think they're crazy.
Running everywhere ...
JOHN LENNON
I really had a chip on my shoulder, ... and it still comes out every now and then.
JOHN LENNON
Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.
JOHN LENNON
Because it's so weird
JOHN LENNON
The older generation are leading this country to galloping ruin!
JOHN LENNON
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a ...
JOHN LENNON
It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I ge...
JOHN LENNON
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to ...
JOHN LENNON
I get by with a little help from my friends
JOHN LENNON
Everything is clearer when you're in love.
JOHN LENNON
All You Need Is Love
JOHN LENNON
Love is you; you and me
JOHN LENNON
All these places have their moments - with lovers and friends - I still can recall some are dead and...
JOHN LENNON
Imagine there's no heavenIt's easy if you tryNo hell below usAbove us only skyImagine all the people...
JOHN LENNON
sometimes all i can feel is a sadness so deep - it hardly becomes known to me
JOHN LENNON
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot
JOHN LENNON
If I ate it would go right to my knee.
JOHN LENNON
We were a band who made it very, very big. That's all.
JOHN LENNON
Canada is America without being American without that … ‘We-are-the-mighty-whatever scene.’ Ca...
JOHN LENNON
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
JOHN LENNON
A working-class hero is something to be.
JOHN LENNON
You are all geniuses, and you are all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You ...
JOHN LENNON