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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.

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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