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There Is No Denying That We Are Still Living In The Capitalist World. I Think That In Order To Survive And To Change The World, You Have To Take Care Of Yourself First. You Have To Survive Yourself.

-John Lennon

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There Is No Denying

John Lennon

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There Is No Denying That We Are Still Living In The Capitalist World. I Think That In Order To Survive And To Change The World, You Have To Take Care Of Yourself First. You Have To Survive Yourself.

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I Don't Know How Much Money I've Got. I Did Ask The Accountant How Much It Came To. I Wrote It Down On A Bit Of Paper. But I've Lost The Bit Of Paper.

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I Cannot Be What I Am Not.

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Music Is Everybody's Possession. It's Only Publishers Who Think That People Own It.

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I Used To Be Cruel To My Woman, And Physically - Any Woman. I Was A Hitter. I Couldn't Express Myself And I Hit. I Fought Men And I Hit Women. That Is Why I Am Always On About Peace, You See. It Is The Most Violent People Who Go For Love And Peace. Everything's The Opposite. But I Sincerely Believe In Love And Peace. I Am A Violent Man Who Has Learned Not To Be Violent And Regrets His Violence. I Will Have To Be A Lot Older Before I Can Face In Public How I Treated Women As A Youngster.

As A Kid I Had A Dream - I Wanted To Own My Own Bicycle. When I Got The Bike I Must Have Been The Happiest Boy In Liverpool, Maybe The World. I Lived For That Bike. Most Kids Left Their Bike In The Backyard At Night. Not Me. I Insisted On Taking Mine Indoors And The First Night I Even Kept It In My Bed.

Women ... I Mean, They Are The Other Half Of The Sky, And Without Them There Is Nothing. And Without Us There's Nothing. There's Only The Two Together Creating Children, Creating Society.

Don't Need A Gun To Blow Your Mind

All You Need Is Love.

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

I Hope Someday You Will Join Us And The World Will Live As One.

Possession Isn't Nine-tenths Of The Law. It's Nine-tenths Of The Problem.

Strawberry Fields Is Anywhere You Want To Go

I Never Listen To The Radio. If It's Bad, I Make Fun Of It, And If It's Good, I Get Jealous That I Didn't Think Of It.

When I Was 5 Years Old, My Mother Always Told Me That Happiness Was The Key To Life.

You Don't Have To Be Some Sort Of Freak To Meditate

I Don't Believe In Yesterday.

Nobody Controls Me. I'm Uncontrollable. The Only One Who Can Control Me Is Me, And Even That's Barely Possible.

At The (record Company) Meeting Paul Just Kept Mithering On About What We Were Going To Do, So In The End I Just Said, 'i Think You're Daft. I Want A Divorce.'

We've Got This Gift Of Love, But Love Is Like A Precious Plant. You Can't Just Accept It And Leave It In The Cupboard Or Just Think It's Going To Get On By Itself. You've Got To Keep Watering It. You've Got To Really Look After It And Nurture It.

My Role In Society, Or Any Artist's Or Poet's Role, Is To Try And Express What We All Feel. Not To Tell People How To Feel. Not As A Preacher, Not As A Leader, But As A Reflection Of Us All.

Instant Karma's Gonna Get You, Gonna Knock You Right On The Head

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