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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.

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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I respect Lady Gaga very much.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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Power is not something we should be afraid of. Power is great, power is energy. And in terms of energy, the most important energy is human spiritual energy and when I say spiritual, I feel like have to be very careful, I don't mean religious, I mean the energy of the mind, the energy that exists within us.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art. It is a necessity -- a function. We don't need history.
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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.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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Faces can lie. Backsides can't.
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You can't always measure the effects of activist work you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
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I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?
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If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.
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Art is a way of survival.
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The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.
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