John Lennon Quotes
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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 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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Nobody loves you when you're down and out.
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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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Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!
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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.
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You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.
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Everything is clearer when you're in love.
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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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After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.
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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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There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill.
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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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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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Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
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When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.
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I don't mind looking to the camera - it's people that throw me.
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Life happens whilst you're planning other things.
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I don't stand back and judge - I do.
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Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the night, or you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. Every time you try to put your finger on it, it slips away. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them...
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Father, you left me, but I never left you.
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How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
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There are places I'll remember All my life though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places have their moments With lovers and friends I still can recall Some are dead and some are living In my life I've loved them all
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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.