Yoko Ono Quotes
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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
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You change the world by being yourself.
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Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.
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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
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I'm not going to doubt my life.
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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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I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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At least I had that, one guy understood me.
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We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
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Being alone is very difficult.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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It's a waste to not say anything with art.
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I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.
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Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
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When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
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The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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We know that our cells are speaking to each other.
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Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.