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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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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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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I don't die in anything!
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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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Walking is my main method of relaxation. I don't go over my lines or try to solve the world's problems, I just enjoy the scenery and the wildlife.
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Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.
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I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.
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I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College.
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Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
