[Lennon was shot to death outside his New York City apartment building on December 8, 1980. He and Ono were married in 1969.] His life was a very driven one, a very compressed one, ... In his very short life, he did a lot for us.
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Related I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. YANCY BUTLER We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and... DENIS LEARY He (Ono) is a player that we would be very interested in. SAM ALLARDYCE I did not know anything about his history as an actor in New York. He was a total stranger to me. He... DENNIS STOCK He was very active in a lot of education and religious and political activities all his life. JAMES DOYLE They'd retreated to the country with two passports only. From the outside it looked like death. Peop... JANET FITCH This man gave up his life for all of us just as if he were in a war on foreign land. He was a soldie... DONNIE WILLIAMS In short, he was a perfect cavalier, / And to his very valet seemed a hero. LORD BYRON He was a good, good man, very involved in the lives of his two teenage daughters, ... He was a big s... JOSEPH ALLEN He shot into the air because he was a very religious man, and he knew if he took his own life he wou... SANDRA ANGLE The major was very interested in the mountains, and we in turn were very interested in the major, a ... H.E. BATES My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a ve... SAM SHEPARD My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea... WALTER MOSLEY He's a very social person. He has a lot of people over to his apartment. LOU FREEMAN I know that he was very intelligent. He was as good in school as he was in sports. He was very good ... MARTIN BRIERE He was the kind of guy TV stations needed in the beginning. He was a very inventive person who dedic... LOU PIERCE I selected him because of his strong work ethic and his interest in the job. His reputation in New Y... BOBBY CARTER Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a past... GIADA DE LAURENTIIS In his prime he was a very imposing figure with a very large tattoo of a shark on his forearm that h... PETER CARLISLE My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family. TAGG ROMNEY He called the police believing there was a break-in. We don't know how the cocaine got there. He's a... LOU FREEMAN George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and son... GARY WRIGHT He was very self-effacing and shy. He was not one to wear his successes on his sleeve or advertise t... HARRY LEWIS He painted, or made a lot of art. He must have had a premonition that his life was going to be a sho... ELISABETH SUSSMAN He painted, or made a lot of art, ... He must have had a premonition that his life was going to be a... ELISABETH SUSSMAN He was very fun loving, loved life, loved doing things with his friends and his family. MISSY CLARK He did a very, very excellent job here, and we're a Level-1 trauma center, so he regularly dealt wit... JOAN MCINERNEY Lennon-kah yang datang selarut ini? Padahal cinta sudah ditembak mati, mungkin tadi, pagi-pagi sekal... READY SUSANTO When the game was on the line we had Sean Singletary, and he was the best player on the floor. He pu... DAVE LEITAO I'm 100 percent convinced that Pablo Escobar was a human being. And he was a very interesting on... WAGNER MOURA He was very involved as a director for his actors and he was also stepping into the actors' shoes as... JANUARY JONES As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sen... PRISCILLA PRESLEY the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM It was unintentional, Andre headbutted me right in the head, ... He always liked me and he was reall... LANNY POFFO Tony Cox, still a painter and not yet married to Yoko Ono, pioneered in the use of mescaline for dra... PETER STAFFORD He had found the love of his life. She's a wonderful kid and was very special to him. JEFF FADNESS Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his ... JET LI Kirby was very, very happy. He was very happy. Not a day went by that he didn't have a smile on his ... JODI OLSON He was a very nice child, family-oriented but he got into this politics and this turned his life aro... BERNICE SMITH He was at a point in his life where he was retired. And he had expressed this was the happiest point... JODI OLSON My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he ... MITCH PILEGGI He was a serious competitor. A good sportsman who spent a lot of his life working and building a bus... DAVID HATHAWAY [NEW YORK - The ads for] Lennon, ... His words. His music. His story. JOHN LENNON He took his time with us. He was very patient. DORIE LADNER Nobody got Punk'd and he was still in his season for that show when we were filming. So the kids... PIPER PERABO It was very impressive that he did that on his own. He obviously wasn't in the department here a ver... FRANK SPENCER Against Detroit, I don't know if he was a little psyched up and he was maybe overthrowing a little b... MIKE SCIOSCIA My father was a very warm, gregarious, sociable person who had many interests. He lived his life ver... DIANA QUICK I knew Sinatra for 38 years. He was like my father. Frank Sinatra was my 'dad.' He treated m... TRINI LOPEZ He was outstanding last year in the utility role. His fielding at short was very good. He played gre... BOBBY COX Given Marc's situation-he had a horrific injury-for really a good two and a half years, to watch his... JERRY ANGELO He was very athletic. He could dunk a basketball. He was extremely fast for his size. BILL RENNER He gave so much of his life to public service, but his family always came first. I'm very proud he w... BILL STANLEY He was a very softhearted person, and that's unheard of in politics. He did the chief's job, I belie... CALVIN MURPHY One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very ... ERIC CLAPTON My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to ... YOKO ONO For the song 'Truth or Consequence,' me and [bassist Mick Morris] had this friend from Salt Lake Cit... JAMES HART was just very arresting as an acting partner, and very engaging because of his energy and his focus,... BARBARA FELDON He was very nice, very good within his group. He was very complete and well-balanced. JACK WARD In politics and in his personal life, Thomas Jefferson was a complicated man, but in one thing he wa... THOMAS J. CRAUGHWELL He was hurt when people didn't either embrace Yoko or his love for Yoko, but finally he didn't care. DON SCARDINO John is a person of strength. He knows who he is. He's a very religious person. He's been through so... JOE LIEBERMAN I was really pleased. He still didn't have his great meet and he was a little off on his last two di... CAROLYN PETERSON He had a wonderful, wry sense of humor and was very independent and very devoted to his wife and his... LILLIAN HANSEN I liked everything I read about Braddock, ... I liked who he was before he was a champion, who he wa... RUSSELL CROWE He was a very stern man, referred to me as his boy. I was his star pupil and he was my mentor. J. LOREN WINCE He was definitely ahead of his age, way ahead of his age. He was a very driven young man at an early... DAVE LUNDEY Certainly, he was very, very well-respected as a composer for his mastery of every genre. That is on... KELLY RYAN My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was ... JOE LHOTA Life is very good. We've been blessed. It was a one in a billion chance of this happening to us and ... FRANK OSTINI Jason knew his life would never be the same again. British intelligence now had an ace up their slee... MARK A. COOPER I believe he was a hero and he did try to apprehend the shooter, and I understand that he probably d... LUCIA JACKSON He's very proud of his service in the Army. He's very proud of his service in the war on terrorism a... GUY WOMACK Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does... WILLIAM SHATNER It's very sad, but he was?and his mom really wants everyone to know?a soldier, and he loved what he ... EVELYN FOX He not only was my soccer coach, but a mentor for life. He was a friend. I have nothing but best wis... CHAD BROWN That was the very lowest point in my life. I just couldn't stop crying. ... My dad got his dentures ... BERNADETTE PEREZ He really enjoyed his racing. He knew what was going on and was a very good man to work for. He was ... JOE MERCER He dedicated his life to making other people's lives better. He just wasn't a fundraiser, he was som... BILL RYAN I think he was very ahead of his time in his thinking because he could see what we were doing to Mot... ALICE BILLINGS Instead of sitting in his office, he wanted to walk, so we would walk outside the court. There would... DAVID HOFFMAN He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just ... JAMES HOGG He got a call on his cell phone telling him to come outside and when he did, someone shot him. MICHAEL COX Christian played with a lot of confidence. He was very impressive in this game. He stayed in the poc... BOB MCALLISTER We spent a lot of time together on Sunday nights before a Monday night game, ... He was always very ... FRANK GIFFORD Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole... ANTHONY BOURDAIN He was a very loving, very caring person. His family meant everything to him. He was well-liked by e... LINDA LOPEZ He knew today that his life was forever changed in that one moment and he was clueless as to why or ... P.J. FIALA Glen cared very much about his grandkids. He cared about his family, and he was a hard worker. JANET JONES He was in hospital very near his home in Virginia. MARGO LEWIS I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about ... SOPHIE B. HAWKINS My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never... BRAD PITT She's his own daughter. He (his father) is in recovery, but at the very least, she has shortened his... DAVID HAMILTON He is very happy in Houston. He likes the city, the team and his teammates. ERIC ZHANG For several years he hadn't moved outside a large, airy room, but this was OK, because he spent most... TERRY PRATCHETT In terms of his trying to solve crimes, he was very thorough, very bright, very dedicated to doing h... JIM CLARK He had a lot of hats. But, in all his jobs, his number one interest was always what was best for Kin... CHARLES GARDNER The expression on his face, he was very excited. His teammates were excited. Phil (Jackson) was kind... JASON TERRY It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, ... EYDIE GORME He was in the bullpen for them earlier in the year, and I think that was only his seventh start. Lef... DAVE JOPPIE
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I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so l... YOKO ONO At this time I think it's important that we remember John for what he contributed to the world. For ... YOKO ONO I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, whic... YOKO ONO Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them ... YOKO ONO I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else i... YOKO ONO I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. P... YOKO ONO Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying. YOKO ONO I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun. YOKO ONO I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. ... YOKO ONO The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're... 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