"What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff."
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"The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it."
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"It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?"
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"I did cocaine for about a year around the time of Sgt Pepper. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out. I was never completely crazy with cocaine. I'd been introduced to it and at first it seemed OK, like anything that's new and stimulating. When you start working your way through it, you start thinking: 'Mmm, this is not so cool an idea,' especially when you start getting those terrible comedowns."
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"When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that."
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"It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time."
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"My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy."
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"You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work."
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"If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein]."
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"You can fill my appetite without me taking up a bite."
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"I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks."
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"I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often."
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"I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me."
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"We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes."
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"It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time, but I will sometimes take public transportation if it's convenient, and it does surprise people, you see the heads turn."
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"When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe."
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"Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs"
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"Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?"
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"People would say to me, “Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney”, and I'd say: “I wish I had his money!”"
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"There is good and bad in everyone."
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