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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
Artist
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City of Tokyo
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Love is what I give to the one I love.
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Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.
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If I was a Jewish girl in Hitler's day, I would become his girlfriend. After ten days in bed, he would come to my way of thinking.
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I never thought, I'm going to be an artist. When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made it a point to say, 'I am a dilettante, I am not a professional artist, which is true.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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My life has always been unplanned. So when something comes along, I feel like, Why not give it a try? It's fun to experiment like that.
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All women are feminists. Being a feminist is allowing woman to be natural, for what she is, whatever it is. All of us can be natural and we're all feminists in that sense.
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My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
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Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.
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This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.
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There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
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Real success is doing things right every day by not forgetting to express love to your friends.
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I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.
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Sometimes I have compared myself with a scientist or something: when you discover something and you don't expect the whole world to understand it. I always thought I was doing that kind of activity, in art and in music too.
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