John Lennon Quotes
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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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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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Why don't people believe us when we say we're simply in love?
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I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.
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If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. ... Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like.
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Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
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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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I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.
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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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Your inside is out and your outside is in.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.
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Some people say it's a when you get older fans the kids don't like you. It's true.
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I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?
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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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You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.
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I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.
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I want it to sound like an orange.
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Love is the Answer. What was the Question?
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The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beautiful, and so are you.
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Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.
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Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.
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I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, "You're great." We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun.
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The lyrics stand today 1980. They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.
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Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.