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" You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are! "
John Lennon
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" 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. "
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" All we are saying is give peace a chance. "
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" I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people. "
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" These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again. "
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" I believe time wounds all heels. "
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" 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? "
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" There's nothing you can know that isn't known. "
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" I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. "
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" Love is the flower you've got to let grow. "
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" Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one. "
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" We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it. "
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" It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here? "
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" Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity. "
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" Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip. "
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" He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride. "
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" As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot. "
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" It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man. "
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" We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. "
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" Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. "
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" Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. "
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" Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun. "
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" Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. "
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" Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry. "
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" The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction. "
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