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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
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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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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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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Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
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Every time I create something, just before that there's a kind of - you're feeling very low, you're feeling very down and insecure. Then you create and then it's fine. This is the way I observe me doing it.
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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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When I'm inspired, I jot things down and put them in a pile.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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Life with another person is always difficult.
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The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.
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Give death announcements each time you move instead of giving announcements of the change of address. Send the same when you die.
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When you go to war, both sides lose totally.
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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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