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One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . . you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you were ten.
John Lennon
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John Lennon
Age: 40 †
Born: 1940
Born: October 9
Died: 1980
Died: December 8
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Everything is as important as everything else.
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We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all.
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I don't want to be king, I want to be real.
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