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I want to incite people to loosen their oppression by giving them something to work with, to build on. They shouldn't be frightened of creating themselves - that's why I make things very open, with things for people to do.

Yoko Ono

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Yoko Ono
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: February 18
Artist
Composer
Conceptual Artist
Film Director
Musician
Painter
Peace Activist
Performance Artist
Photographer
Recording Artist
Sculptor
City of Tokyo
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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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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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'
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I trust in my inspiration, really, and that's difficult because sometimes you would rather be technical. And once you empty your mind, empty your brain, it's really incredible. I'm very caring about things that dash into my brain, and I make sure I don't just clog it.
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Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.
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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 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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We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
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The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.
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Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'
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All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.
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Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
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