The Beatles Quotes
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My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.
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If somebody gives me a joint, I might smoke it, but I don't go after it.
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There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.
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Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway.
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One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life.
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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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I'll probably be popped off by some loony.
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When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
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The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right.
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I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.
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People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.
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You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.
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Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.
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I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you.
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It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting off certain areas for Yoko Ono. She's a red hot liberationistand was quick to show me where I was going wrong, even though it seemed to me that I was just acting naturally. That's why I'm always interested to know how people who claim to be radical treat women.
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It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?
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Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.
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Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you...
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Sarcasim is the lowest form of humor.
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The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people.
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I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.
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The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.
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I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.
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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.