John Lennon Quotes
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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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...if everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!
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The world went mad and used us as an excuse.
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Instant Karma is going to get you.
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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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You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.
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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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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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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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You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
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Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.
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Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.
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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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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.
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I get by with a little help from my friends.
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I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?
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Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.
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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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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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Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
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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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I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.
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I don't mind looking to the camera - it's people that throw me.