John Lennon Quotes
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Somehow the revolutionaries must approach the workers because the workers won't approach them. But it's difficult to know where to start; we've all got a finger in the dam. The problem for me is that as I have become more real, I've grown away from most working-class people.
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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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There are a lot of people walking around with long hair now and some trendy middle class kids in pretty clothes. But nothing changed except that we all dressed up a bit, leaving the same bastards running everything.
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I was a great one as a kid for standing and just looking out a window for hours and hours and hours. Now the TV does that for me, except for the view changes immensely.
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After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.
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Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
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If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again.
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Life happens whilst you're planning other things.
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I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.
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As a kid I had a dream - I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed.
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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 idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.
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I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
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A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it...
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Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere - come and get your share.
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People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.
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You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.
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The world went mad and used us as an excuse.
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Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.
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We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.
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You don't have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first.
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I don't stand back and judge - I do.
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I get by with a little help from my friends.