Yoko Ono Quotes

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

Yoko Ono

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 18, 1933

Topics

CultureMoneyCountryLostTheme

Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of national and other biases in the selection of the laureates.

John O'Keefe

ScienceReputationAwardsSelection

As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. As public pools and playgrounds decay, the better-off buy memberships in private tennis and swimming clubs. As public hospitals decline, the well-off pay premium rates for private care.

Robert Reich

SwimmingCareClassTennisPayBuy

Project 523 was both a good and a bad thing. They held so many meetings, and there were so many competing centres, it was a real mess. Nearly every province had their own research centre, and they all asked me to share my research, which I did. But that's no way to do science. They wasted a lot of money and a lot of time.

Tu Youyou

GoodScienceTimeMoneyMeResearch

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

Tom Wolfe

PeopleMeCareerFictionNonfiction

I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it.

Jay-Z

LoveBestYouWantI Love

Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility.

Dianne Reeves

TimeMusiciansJazzAlwaysStandards

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

Dennis Potter

WorkMyselfMoreTameSurely

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.

Debra Messing

LoveWorldThreeOldFirstYears

It's such a different spectrum of tragedies when you talk to people in developing countries.

Brandon Stanton

PeopleYouTalkDifferentSpectrum

When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.

Alicia Keys

BusinessMusicMenWomanGameFeel

I think, with any topical show, it's very easy to find yourself caught up in the news cycle, and working at 'The Daily Show,' I definitely found myself in that, where we would be talking about the last 24 hours.

Wyatt Cenac

DailyMyselfYourselfThinkTalking

I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman, and I don't know that?

Tyra Banks

FriendEyesMyselfBudgetKnowSaid

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