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I don't think you make a choice to be an artist. There was no decision for me. I've been expressing myself this way since I can remember.

Yoko Ono

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Yoko Ono
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: February 18
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When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.
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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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You're filled with so much life. Is there any reason why all of us are not full of life?
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When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'
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Stand in the evening light until you become transparent or until you fall asleep.
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Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.
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I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.
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When you go to war, both sides lose totally.
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Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
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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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Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.
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Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.
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If you have a slave around the house how can you expect to make a revolution outside it? The problem for women is that if we try to be free, then we naturally become lonely, because so many women are willing to become slaves, and men usually prefer that.
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I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
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You can't love someone unless you are in an equal position with them. A lot of women have to cling to men out of fear or insecurity, and that's not love - basically that's why women hate men.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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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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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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