John Lennon Quotes
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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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Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
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Life happens whilst you're planning other things.
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I get by with a little help from my friends.
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You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
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It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?
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Love is real, real is love, Love is feeling, feeling love, Love is wanting to be loved. Love is touch, touch is love, Love is reaching, reaching love, Love is asking to be loved. Love is you, You and me, Love is knowing, We can be. Love is free, free is love, Love is living, living love, Love is needing to be loved.
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Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through the blacks were singing directly and immediately about their pain and also about sex, which is why I like it.
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I don't believe in magic ... I don't believe in Jesus ... I don't believe in Buddha ... I don't believe in Elvis ... I don't believe in Beatles.
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I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it.
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I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?
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I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.
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The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'
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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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Sitting in an English Garden waiting for the sun If the sun don't come You get a tan from standing in the English rain.
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Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.
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Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
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I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
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What I'm trying to do is to influence all the people I can influence. All those who are still under the dream and just put a big question mark in their mind. The acid dream is over, that is what I'm trying to tell them.
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I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.
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Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes They call me on and on across the universe Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe...
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After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order.
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The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.