John Lennon Quotes
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You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.
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Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you...
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The more reality we face, the more we realise that unreality is the main programme of the day. The more real we become, the more abuse we take, so it does radicalise us in a way, like being put in a corner. But it would be better if there were more of us.
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I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.
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Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?
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I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.
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People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.
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God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
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We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear.
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I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
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I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my songs aren't that doable.
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You can only breathe out if you breathe in.
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I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off.
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It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.
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When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
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Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.
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But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.
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Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.
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My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.
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I believe Jesus was right, Buddha was right, and all of those people like that are right. They're all saying the same thing - and I believe it. I believe what Jesus actually said - the basic things he laid down about love and goodness - and not what people say he said.
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We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?
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The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.
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I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.
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I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.