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I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

Yoko Ono

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Yoko Ono
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: February 18
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I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
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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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I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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Rather than deal with problems in relationships, I've always moved on. That's why I'm one of the very few survivors as a woman, you know.
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I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.
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Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved.
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Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.
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To have world peace, we all have to have a healthy understanding of what is necessary to bring World Peace. It's not something that will be dropped on our laps. We have to work for it. Until we get World Peace, I think my strongest passion stays in the effort to get it.
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Perhaps one feels more pain when parents are there. It's like when you're hungry, you know, it's worse to get a symbol of a cheeseburger than no cheeseburger at all. It doesn't do you any good, you know.
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The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.
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Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.
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Bless you for your jealousy it is a sign of empathy.
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What a beautiful future it will be! Don't worry about life being boring. It will never be.
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Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.
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