Yoko Ono Quotes
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Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.
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I got the famous Oprah hug!
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I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
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In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
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Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?
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I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
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I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.
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Try becoming a person people want to be with rather than conforming yourself to the false identity of what you conceive their ideal to be.
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I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
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Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
