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We Thought Being Offered The M.b.e. [member Of The Order Of The British Empire] Was As Funny As Everybody Else Thought It Was. Why? What For? We Didn't Believe It. It Was A Part We Didn't Want. We All Met And Agreed It Was Daft.

-John Lennon

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We Thought Being Offered

John Lennon

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We Thought Being Offered The M.b.e. [member Of The Order Of The British Empire] Was As Funny As Everybody Else Thought It Was. Why? What For? We Didn't Believe It. It Was A Part We Didn't Want. We All Met And Agreed It Was Daft.

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Like Paul Kraston Said, All I Ask In Life Is A Water Bed, A Tv And A Typewriter. Well, I'll Just Have An Ordinary Bed, A Tv And A Guitar.

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.

It Seems To Me That The Students Are Now Half-awake Enough To Try And Wake Up Their Brother Workers. If You Don't Pass On Your Own Awareness Then It Closes Down Again.

I've Always Been Politically Minded And Against The Status Quo. It's Pretty Basic When You're Brought Up, Like I Was, To Hate And Fear The Police As A Natural Enemy And To Despise The Army As Something That Takes Everybody Away And Leaves Them Dead Somewhere.

I Don't Mind People Putting Us Down, Because If Everybody Really Liked Us, It Would Be A Bore. You've Got To Have People Putting You Down. It Doesn't Give Any Edge To It If Everybody Just Falls Flat On Their Face Saying, "you're Great." We Enjoy Some Of The Criticisms As Well, They're Quite Funny; Some Of The Clever Criticisms, Not The Ones That Don't Know Anything, But Some Of The Clever Ones Are Quite Fun.

Imagine There's No Heaven... It's Easy If You Try.

It's Like Being Possessed: Like A Psychic Or A Medium. I Felt Like A Hollow Temple Filled With Many Spirits, Each One Passing Through Me, Each Inhabiting Me For A Little Time And Then Leaving To Be Replaced By Another.

The World Went Mad And Used Us As An Excuse.

I'll Probably Be Popped Off By Some Loony.

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There Were Very Few Real Folk Singers You Know, Though I Liked Dominic Behan A Bit And There Was Some Good Stuff To Be Heard In Liverpool. Just Occasionally You Hear Very Old Records On The Radio Or Tv Of Real Workers In Ireland Or Somewhere Singing These Songs And The Power Of Them Is Fantastic.

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

We're All God. I'm Not A God Or The God, But We're All God And We're All Potentially Divine - And Potentially Evil.

God Is A Concept By Which We Measure Our Pain.

Paul (mccartney) And I Made A Deal When We Were 15. There Was Never A Legal Deal Between Us, Just A Deal We Made When We Decided To Write Together That We Put Both Our Names On It, No Matter What.

There's Room At The Top They Are Telling You Still, But First You Must Learn How To Smile As You Kill.

Nothing Happened In The Sixties Except That We All Dressed Up.

I'd Never Met A Woman I Considered As Intelligent As Me. That Sounds Bigheaded, But Every Woman I Met Was Either A Dolly-chick, Or A Sort Of Screwed-up Intellectual Chick. And Of Course, In The Field I Was In, I Didn't Meet Many Intellectual People Anyway. I Always Had This Dream Of Meeting An Artist, An Artist Girl Who Would Be Like Me. And I Thought It Was A Myth, But Then I Met Yoko And That Was It.

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