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My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

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Yoko Ono
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: February 18
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City of Tokyo
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If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.
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When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.
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It is very difficult for us to know we love somebody because it is an insecure position to be in. But in the end, it is important to be honest about your love because life is not that long.
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When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'
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I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
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The amazing thing is that we could live in the world together peacefully, feed the world, shelter the world. We have that capability both spiritually and technologically.
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Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?
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We know that our cells are speaking to each other.
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Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.
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Give peace a chance and let's hope that one day we will all live in peace.
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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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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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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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You should do something that will make your heart dance once a day. If you can't do that because you're too depressed, then do something that will make somebody else's heart dance.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art. It is a necessity -- a function. We don't need history.
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