"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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"When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back."
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"Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are."
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"Women artists are still treated differently from men."
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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 did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group."
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"Everything has complexity. Everything has simplicity. You just grab it."
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"If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you."
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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."
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"You're filled with so much life. Is there any reason why all of us are not full of life?"
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"Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework."
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"Dance music makes us dance. Let us get off our couch and spin around!"
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"Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars."
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"I'm not giving any guidance, OK. I mean, you know, mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right? Anyway, so he's [Sean] doing his own thing."
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"My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music."
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"If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her."
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"Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that."
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"Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics."
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"In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country."
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"I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name."
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