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Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.

Yoko Ono

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Yoko Ono
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: February 18
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City of Tokyo
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I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.
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Society was built on male power, and women's power was... ignored is the best word to describe it I suppose, we have been running society on one power, half a power really. And that's so terrible. The world needs women's power too.
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We're all water from different rivers, That's why it's so easy to meet, We're all water in this vast, vast ocean, Someday we'll evaporate together.
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We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.
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Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework.
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I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
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Bless you for your jealousy it is a sign of empathy.
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If I hear dance music, my body starts to move. Whatever the dance music is, I can't help it. With all that, I still felt, well, rock is a little higher art, but it wasn't. Right now, because I have so much experience with dance charts, I started to realize that it's incredible art. This is going to be known one day as high art.
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I don't really believe in going with somebody to have tea and chat. I don't do that. It's just a waste of time.
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We know that our cells are speaking to each other.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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You're filled with so much life. Is there any reason why all of us are not full of life?
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The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly.
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Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.
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Music is like my security blanket. The first medium that I learned was music.
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If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.
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I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them.
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Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us. Julian Assange took a courageous step by rightfully returning what belongs to the public domain. For that reason, I believe we need to stand behind him.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.
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