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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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When you say 'I love you', you are not just saying it to that person. You are saying 'I love you' to yourself, the planet & The Universe.
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It's better to dance than to march through life.
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Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.
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Love is an incredibly strong thing, it goes everywhere, it's like water, you can't stop it. Love, once you have it, once you create a kind of pathway for it to come out, it just keeps on coming out.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.
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Loneliness is equal to the radius of one's awareness.
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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 think something that's very important for us to communicate is usually very simple. Like breathing: Breathing is very simple. You don't do a dissonant 9th harmony or something in breathing. You just breathe, you know. I think that's how it is with very important messages.
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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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Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.
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Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?
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I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.
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I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself.
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Luckily we never injected because both of us were totally scared about needles. So that probably saved us. And the other thing that saved us was our connection was not very good.
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I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.
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Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'
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My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.
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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
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