"You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth."

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"You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth."

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"But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth."

Ted Shackelford, American Actor

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"I'm the audience's representative on earth."

Michael Caine, English Actor

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"It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon."

Kate Chopin, American Author

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"Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System."

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian Scientist

Earth, Gravity, Man, Space

"No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,to feel its hands about us like a friend's."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Earth, Death, Life, Learning

"NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station."

James Lovelock, English Scientist

Earth, Space, Sun, Will

"Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes."

Brian Walker, American Inventor

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"As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains."

Nicolas Malebranche, French Philosopher

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"Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit."

Robert Crippen, American Astronaut

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"Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow."

Li Po, Chinese Poet

Earth, Flies, Heaven, Sorrow

Explore more quotes by John Lennon

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."

Happiness

"Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality."

Effect

"You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate."

God

"I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity."

Christianity

"For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one, the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!"

Humor

"I am he As you are me And we are all together."

Unity

"We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on..."

Unity

"The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?"

Society

"I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding."

Love

"The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams illusions wars peace love hate all that.... Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing."

Acceptance