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" The cynicism that you have is not your real soul. "

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" My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music. "

" Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half. "

" I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him. "

" When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back. "

" In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know? "

" At least I had that, one guy understood me. "

" No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles. "

" We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that. "

" Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way. "

" My life was pretty rough. "

" Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity. "

" There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all. "

" Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that. "

" Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do. "

" Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions. "

" I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it? "

" 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. "

" When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows. "

" 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.' "

" I'm a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I'll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don't want to do that. "

" The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper. "

" My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky. "

" I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away. "

" We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children. "

" Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you. "

" 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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