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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. "
Yoko Ono
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" When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it. "
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" You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang. "
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" If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her. "
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" What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect. "
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" If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional. "
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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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" 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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" The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities. "
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" Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think. "
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" Being alone is very difficult. "
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" Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do. "
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" In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country. "
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" The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up. "
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" Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch. "
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" Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics. "
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" Music is like my security blanket. "
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" We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians. "
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" Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that. "
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" I just like to explore all sorts of different forms - no, 'explore' is not even the word - enjoy. You don't want to limit yourself to a particular form. "
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" Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous. "
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Make
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" DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are. "
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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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" When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition. "
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" I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy. "
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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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" Artists are going to be the metronome of this society. "
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" There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other. "
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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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" Art is my life and my life is art. "
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