"Someday I'll be remembered for The phone calls I never made Letters I never mailed And the stories I never finished telling anyone."
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Yoko Ono quotes (page 15 of 18)
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"Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object."
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"Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us. Julian Assange took a courageous step by rightfully returning what belongs to the public domain. For that reason, I believe we need to stand behind him."
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"Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed."
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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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"Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll."
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"The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities."
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"We're all water from different rivers, That's why it's so easy to meet, We're all water in this vast, vast ocean, Someday we'll evaporate together."
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"You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang."
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"What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true."
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"Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child."
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"When you go through a negative situation, don’t think about it. Make it positive."
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"I realized that an artist seeking to tell the truth in her art takes great courage. I recognize the courage required to bring children together from Israeli and Palestinian communities to find commonality in music as a very powerful and effective beginning towards Peace."
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"Luckily we never injected because both of us were totally scared about needles. So that probably saved us. And the other thing that saved us was our connection was not very good."
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"Tell the Earth how much you care, how beautiful she is, and how much you love her. Ask for her forgiveness for having been so careless."
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"When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible"
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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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"When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened."
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"This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people."
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"When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition."
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