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It's Just Natural, It's Not A Great Disaster. People Keep Talking About It Like It's The End Of The Earth. It's Only A Rock Group That Split Up, It's Nothing Important. You Know, You Have All The Old Records There If You Want To Reminisce.

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It's Just Natural, It's Not A Great Disaster. People Keep Talking About It Like It's The End Of The Earth. It's Only A Rock Group That Split Up, It's Nothing Important. You Know, You Have All The Old Records There If You Want To Reminisce.

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The Pressures Of Being A Parent Are Equal To Any Pressure On Earth. To Be A Conscious Parent, And Really Look To That Little Being's Mental And Physical Health, Is A Responsibility Which Most Of Us, Including Me, Avoid Most Of The Time Because It's Too Hard.

You Can Only Breathe Out If You Breathe In.

He Laid It On George, Me And Our Wives Without Telling Us At A Dinner Party At His House. He Was A Friend Of George's, And Our Dentist At The Time. He Just Put It In Our Coffee Or Something. He Didn't Know What It Was, It Was Just, 'it's All The Thing,' With The Middle-class London Swingers. They Had All Heard About It And Didn't Know It Was Different From Pot Or Pills. And They Gave It To Us, And He Was Saying, 'i Advise You Not To Leave,' And We Thought He Was Trying To Keep Us For An Orgy In His House And We Didn't Want To Know.

Don't Underestimate The Importance Of Happiness. As Long As You're Happy, Who Cares What You Do?

All The Revolutions Have Happened When A Fidel Or Marx Or Lenin Or Whatever, Who Were Intellectuals, Were Able To Get Through To The Workers. They Got A Good Pocket Of People Together And The Workers Seemed To Understand That They Were In A Repressed State.

I Want To Be With My Best Friend. My Best Friend, My Wife. Who Could Ask For Anything More?

I Go To Restaurants And The Groups Always Play "yesterday." I Even Signed A Guy's Violin In Spain After He Played Us "yesterday." He Couldn't Understand That I Didn't Write The Song. But I Guess He Couldn't Have Gone From Table To Table Playing "i Am The Walrus.

We're Crazy About This City. First Time We Came Here, We Walked The Streets All Day, All Over Town And Nobody Hassled Us. People Smiled, Friendly-like, And We Knew We Could Live Here. We'd Like To Keep Our Place In Greenwich Village And Have An Apartment Here, God And The Immigration Service Willing. Los Angeles? That's Just A Big Parking Lot Where You Buy A Hamburger For The Trip To San Francisco.

I'll Give You Everything I've Got For A Little Peace Of Mind

I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends.

I Am Not The Beatles. I'm Me. Paul Isn't The Beatles...the Beatles Are The Beatles. Separately, They Are Separate.

I'm Not Going To Sacrifice Love, Real Love, For Any *%@$n' War Or Any Friend, Or Any Business, Because In The End You're Alone At Night.

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

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