Yoko Ono Quotes

I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.

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• Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

  

  Mae West
  • More
  • Often
  • Shocked

• I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Believe
  • More
  • Would

• I grew up in a very large, poor family.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Poor

• Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Love
  • Way
  • Special

• Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Up
  • Eye
  • Information

• One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Real
  • You
  • Jazz

• I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.

  

  Warren Giles
  • School
  • Friends
  • Mother

• Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Myself
  • Now
  • Circle

• A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Strong
  • Energy

• Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Competition
  • Talent
  • Back

• I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Silence
  • Lose
  • Solitude

• Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • World
  • Me
  • Loved

• The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Morning
  • Coffee
  • Ice

• People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • People
  • Animals
  • Gods

• Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Up
  • Work
  • Problem

• In my beginning is my end.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End

• In my opinion, villains are so much more interesting than heroes. So 'Suicide Squad' is just like, wow, so damn awesome.

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • Interesting
  • Opinion
  • Awesome

• Nobody is perfect, though. We all want everyone to think we are, but perfection is some crazy mythical state that we can never achieve. It is a goal beyond our grasp, always shifting and changing and taunting us, because it knows...it knows we can never reach it.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Never
  • Achieve
  • Perfection

• In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that needs you to fill a quota!

  

  Esther Duflo
  • Woman
  • Advantage
  • Academic

• I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Important
  • Think
  • Process

• As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • World
  • Future

• I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.

  

  Yoko Ono
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