John Lennon Quotes
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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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I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it.
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We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.
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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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People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.
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Before Elvis there was nothing.
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It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting off certain areas for Yoko Ono. She's a red hot liberationistand was quick to show me where I was going wrong, even though it seemed to me that I was just acting naturally. That's why I'm always interested to know how people who claim to be radical treat women.
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The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people.
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Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.
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Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don't have the impact we had when we were together.
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Sarcasim is the lowest form of humor.
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We've learned over the years that if we wanted we could write anything that just felt good or sounded good and it didn't necessarily have to have any particular meaning to us. As odd as it seemed to us, reviewers would take it upon themselves to interject their own meanings on our lyrics. Sometimes we sit and read other people's interpretations of our lyrics and think, 'Hey, that's pretty good.' If we liked it, we would keep our mouths shut and just accept the credit as if it was what we meant all along.
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The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.
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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
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I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th century; it seems to be written for dropped-out, middle-aged liberals.
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It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?
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Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
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The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.
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Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.
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The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money.
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I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.
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Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.
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There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see.
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I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore...