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" I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away. "
Yoko Ono
People
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" Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are. "
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" John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future. "
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" After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.' "
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" We live too long for one marriage. "
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" My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life. "
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" I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it. "
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" At least I had that, one guy understood me. "
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" It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black. "
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" I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things. "
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" I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that. "
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" I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit. "
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" In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country. "
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" When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh. "
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" Having a son is not all pleasure. "
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" When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time. "
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" I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know. "
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" Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire. "
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" People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand. "
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" Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine? "
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" True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely. "
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" Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer. "
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" I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive. "
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" I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter. "
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" I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection! "
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" Artists are going to be the metronome of this society. "
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" We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that. "
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" I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it. "
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" Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing. "
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" The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that. "
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