Yoko Ono Quotes
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People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
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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.
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Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.
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Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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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?
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When you go to war, both sides lose totally.
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I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
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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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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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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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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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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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I'm not going to doubt my life.
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It's a waste to not say anything with art.
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The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.
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All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.
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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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Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.