John Lennon Quotes
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I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.
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I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past.
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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 believe that God is like a powerhouse, like where you keep electricity, like a power station. And that he's a supreme power, and that he's neither good not bad, left, right, black or white. He just is. And we tap that source of power and make of it what we will. Just as electricity can kill people in a chair, or you can light a room with it. I think God is.
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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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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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The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.
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After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.
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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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And So This Is Christmas; And What Have We Done? Another Year Over; A New One Just Begun; And So Happy Christmas; I Hope You Have Fun; The Near And The Dear Ones; The Old And The Young.
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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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Father, you left me, but I never left you.
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Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
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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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I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.
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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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I don't stand back and judge - I do.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.
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I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control...
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Nobody loves you when you're down and out.
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Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream.
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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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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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It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 - so they promise. And I believe it, too.