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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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Yoko Ono
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: February 18
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City of Tokyo
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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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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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We don't have a particular organization, but we all want to make a world in which justice is given to each one of us.
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If I hear dance music, my body starts to move. Whatever the dance music is, I can't help it. With all that, I still felt, well, rock is a little higher art, but it wasn't. Right now, because I have so much experience with dance charts, I started to realize that it's incredible art. This is going to be known one day as high art.
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Confusion has become a state of mind, more of less we're trained to be confused. Quite simply, the people in power are keeping us down, keeping us docile and keeping us consuming with this confusion. It's a cultural confusion and it is deliberate.
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People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?
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You change the world by being yourself.
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I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.
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Long, long time ago, I declared that all my works are a form of a prayer/a wish.
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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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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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Anger is an emotion that is very energetic. It is an ideal emotion to turn it around to make it work as a positive force.
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
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The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.
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I never want projects to be finished I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'
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