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Don't You Think That The Beatles Gave Every Sodden Thing They've Got To Be The Beatles? That Took A Whole Section Of Our Youth - That Whole Period - When Everybody Else Was Just Goofin' Off We Were Workin' 24 Hours A Day!

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Don't You Think That

John Lennon

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Don't You Think That The Beatles Gave Every Sodden Thing They've Got To Be The Beatles? That Took A Whole Section Of Our Youth - That Whole Period - When Everybody Else Was Just Goofin' Off We Were Workin' 24 Hours A Day!

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Imagine No Possesions, I Wonder If You Can, No Need For Greed Or Hunger, A Brotherhood Of Man. Imagine All The People Sharing All The World.

Brotherhood Of Man

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News Conference In Chicago, Where He Apologized For The Above Statement, Which Was Accepted By The Vatican. (11 August 1966)

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Life Is What Happens When We Are Busy Doing Other Things. Peace Is Not Something You Wish For; It's Something You Make, Something You Do, Something You Are And Something You Give Away.

Coping Mechanisms

We Live In A World Where We Have To Hide To Make Love, While Violence Is Practiced In Broad Daylight.

I Don't Believe In Yesterday.

I Was Different, I Was Always Different. Why Didn't Anybody Notice Me?

Being Different

The World Is Still Spinning And So Are We And So Are You. When The Spinning Stops - That'll Be The Time To Worry. Not Before.

One More Stage, One More Limo, One More Run For Your Life.

You Can Go To Church And Sing A Hymn, Judge Me By The Colour Of My Skin, You Can Live A Lie Until You Die, One Thing You Can't Hide Is When You're Crippled Inside.

Carrying The Beatles' Or The Sixties' Dream Around All Your Life Is Like Carrying The Second World War And Glenn Miller Around. That's Not To Say You Can't Enjoy Glenn Miller Or The Beatles, But To Live In That Dream Is The Twilight Zone. It's Not Living Now. It's An Illusion.

Reality Leaves A Lot To The Imagination.

Yoko [ono] Was Well Into Liberation Before I Met Her. She'd Had To Fight Her Way Through A Man's World - The Art World Is Completely Dominated By Men - So She Was Full Of Revolutionary Zeal When We Met.

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