Think globally, act locally.
PAUL MCCARTNEY
PAUL MCCARTNEY
More from Paul McCartney
One may not eat what has a face.
Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney There are two things John and I always do when we’re going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney We can work it out. Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney The beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less.
Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It’s when you’re in jail you really become a criminal.
Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity. To see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney I can’t manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.
Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney
Original quotes
From our community writers
And in the end when the money is gone – will you still stay it was worth it.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby My soul speaks a language, only you can understand.
Ginnie BaleGinnie Bale In another life, you kept your word, and forever’s still ours for the taking.
Harriet SelinaHarriet Selina Journey with struggle becomes a great tale in the future.
Carla StokesCarla Stokes I’m not asking that you take the bullet for me. I wish you’d shoot first.
Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery A rainy day is the perfect excuse to explore deeper feelings.
Emily BockEmily Bock Stop taking care of everyone else before you take care of yourself.
Claire VinsonClaire Vinson Music is a weed, we all fallen souls are high on.
Ananya BhaskarAnanya Bhaskar
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Local casting is just something I love doing.
Benh ZeitlinBenh Zeitlin Some Republicans are more liberal than some Democrats, some libertarians are more radical than some socialists, and many local candidates run without any party identification.
Ben BagdikianBen Bagdikian All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one’s belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
Irvin D. YalomIrvin D. Yalom The Hulk, Detective Comics, Action Comics, you name it. Seeing those old books got me interested in new comics, so my friends and I would hit the local comic shop every Saturday to pick up the cool titles of my generation.
Alan RobertAlan Robert An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
Wendell BerryWendell Berry