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If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

John Lennon

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John Lennon
Age: 40 †
Born: 1940
Born: October 9
Died: 1980
Died: December 8
Actor
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Painter
Peace Activist
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City of Liverpool
John Winston Ono Lennon
John Winston Lennon
Lennon John
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Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.
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The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.
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It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.
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The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it, a more mature, more intellectual approach. We were different people, we were older. We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties.
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If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture.
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How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
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We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear.
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As I play the game of life, I try to make it better each and every day. And when I struggle in the night, The magic of the music seems to light the way.
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Instant Karma's gonna get you, gonna knock you right on the head
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Life is what happens when you make other plans.
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We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.
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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
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Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
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From this moment on I know exactly where my life will go: seems that all I really was doing was waiting for love.
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I get by with a little help from my friends.
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Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
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Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
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