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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

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Yoko Ono
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: February 18
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City of Tokyo
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
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When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.
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