Yoko Ono quote: "Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions."

Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.
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The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look...
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art ...
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When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'
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A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book,...
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When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving ...
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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own ...
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Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.
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The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't m...
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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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Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I wou...
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DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive...
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This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being...
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People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite...
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You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the m...
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Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get b...
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Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the messa...
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
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Being alone is very difficult.
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If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
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Every drop in the ocean counts.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.
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I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.
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One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance...
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but a...
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Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that y...
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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. N...
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find ...
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You change the world by being yourself.
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Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life...
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When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Y...
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When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I k...
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I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for...
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Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. A...
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Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberan...
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In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and again...
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily...
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I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him...
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The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.
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John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
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We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn...
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I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our chil...
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I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, an...
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Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression,...
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I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Sch...
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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 thei...
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The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and s...
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Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, th...
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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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The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
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How could he be a friend when he was indicted for grand larceny and took so many things from us?
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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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When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is poss...
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Lennon would enjoy musical
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Lennon Legend
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selectio...
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Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You migh...
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My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to ...
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Spread the word. Spread the peace.
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I'd like to know how I feel towards her now. I'd really like to have a decent conversation to get to...
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Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
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If we had a big Apple Records lawyers meeting or something, and we were sitting there and John was b...
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Then he started to do it, and I'm very glad I said that.
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If he's observing me from up there, I'm sure he's proud of me. It's going to go on and on. This is w...
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You're out of the shot, ... Do you mind playing a little nearer to the camera?
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[Lennon was shot to death outside his New York City apartment building on December 8, 1980. He and O...
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I hope the press will keep their respectful distance and give Olivia and Dhani the space they need n...
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People always portrayed us as enemies, like two boxers on opposite sides of the ring, but of course ...
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War is over if you want it.
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So many people have approached me and said, 'Can I do a musical of John,' ... It's a very simple ide...
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I will consider the possibility, that is, when I get the call.
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It's not as though you're an old school friend of mine, Cynthia.
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New technology is something he always embraced, and this is something he would have loved.
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No Rodgers and Hammerstein on Broadway now. Only Juke Box.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fie...
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Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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(When) I read about the battle of the widows, I thought 'I'm not John's widow, Yoko is John's widow,
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I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodie...
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He was very generous about it. I just wonder where those drawings went.
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[Confronted for the first time by the sight of her husband and his lover,] rooted to the spot in sho...
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This shows the timelessness of John's prophetic, visionary songwriting.
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People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already differen...
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I said, 'You're a good songwriter, it's not June with Spoon that you write.
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You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.
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Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.
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I said, 'You're a good songwriter. It's not June with Spoon that you write. You're a good singer, an...
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you...
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I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory ...
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Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don&#...
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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so l...
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At this time I think it's important that we remember John for what he contributed to the world. For ...
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I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, whic...
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Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them ...
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I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else i...
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I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. P...
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Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.
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I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
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I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. ...
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The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're...
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be fel...
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To me, the concept of distance is not important. Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither do...
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Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.
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Write down everything you fear in life.
Burn it.
Pour herbal oil with a sweet scent on the...
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot ...
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confr...
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You can be very wild and still be very wise.
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Imagine the clouds dripping
Dig a hole in your garden to
put them in
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I feel sad that he’s just a voice now.
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Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.
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This is the beginning of a significant era for the military transformation of the Japan-US alliance....
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Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she wa...
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Our refueling efforts have been highly evaluated by the foreign countries, but there has also been c...
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Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.

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Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.

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