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You Feel Alone If You're The Only One Thinking 'wouldn't It Be Nice If There Was Peace And Nobody Was Getting Killed.' So Advertise Yourself That You're For Peace If You Believe In It.

-John Lennon

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You Feel Alone If

John Lennon

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You Feel Alone If You're The Only One Thinking 'wouldn't It Be Nice If There Was Peace And Nobody Was Getting Killed.' So Advertise Yourself That You're For Peace If You Believe In It.

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If We Took Over Britain, Then We'd Have The Job Of Cleaning Up The Bourgeoisie And Keeping People In A Revolutionary State Of Mind.

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Only By Trying On Other People's Clothes Do We Find What Size We Are.

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I Was A Great One As A Kid For Standing And Just Looking Out A Window For Hours And Hours And Hours. Now The Tv Does That For Me, Except For The View Changes Immensely.

That's Part Of Our Policy, Is Not To Be Taken Seriously Because I Think Our Opposition, Whoever They May Be In All Their Manifest Forms, Don't Know How To Handle Humour.

In Western-style Communism We Would Have To Create An Almost Imaginary Workers' Image Of Themselves As The Father-figure.

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.

The First Drugs I Ever Took, I Was Still At Art School, With The Group - We All Took It Together - Was Benzedrine From The Inside Of An Inhaler.

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

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If I'd Lived In Roman Times, I'd Have Lived In Rome. Where Else? Today America Is The Roman Empire And New York Is Rome Itself.

I Don't Expect You To Understand After You've Caused So Much Pain, But Then Again-you're Not To Blame; You're Just Human-a Victim Of The Insane.

Love Is Like A Flower - You Have To Let It Grow.

You Don't Need Anybody To Tell You Who You Are Or What You Are. You Are What You Are!

The Thing The Sixties Did Was To Show Us The Possibilities And The Responsibility That We All Had. It Wasn't The Answer. It Just Gave Us A Glimpse Of The Possibility.

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When I Went To School, They Asked Me What I Wanted To Be When I Grew Up. I Wrote Down Happy.

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If You're An Unknown Artist You're Lucky To Get An Hour In A Studio - It's A Hierarchy And If You Don't Have Hits, You Don't Get Recorded Again.

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.

In Hamburg The Waiters Always Had Preludin - And Various Other Pills, But I Remember Preludin Because It Was Such A Big Trip - And They Were All Taking These Pills To Keep Themselves Awake, To Work These Incredible Hours In This All-night Place. And So The Waiters, When They'd See The Musicians Falling Over With Tiredness Or With Drink, They'd Give You The Pill. You'd Take The Pill, You'd Be Talking, You'd Sober Up, You Could Work Almost Endlessly - Until The Pill Wore Off, Then You'd Have To Have Another.

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All Kids Draw And Write Poetry And Everything, And Some Of Us Last Until We're About Eighteen, But Most Drop Off At About Twelve When Some Guy Comes Up And Says, "you're No Good." That's All We Get Told All Our Lives. "you Haven't Got The Ability. You're A Cobbler." It Happened To All Of Us, But If Somebody Had Told Me All My Life, "yeah, You're A Great Artist," I Would Have Been A More Secure Person.

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So Long Ago, Was It In A Dream, Was It Just A Dream?

When We Got Married, We Knew Our Honeymoon Was Going To Be Public, Anyway, So We Decided To Use It To Make A Statement. We Sat In Bed And Talked To Reporters For Seven Days. It Was Hilarious. In Effect, We Were Doing A Commercial For Peace On The Front Page Of The Papers Instead Of A Commercial For War.

Without Jimmy Dean, The Beatles Never Would Have Existed.

Happiness Is A Warm Gun Not About Heroin. A Gun Magazine Was Sitting There With A Smoking Gun On The Cover And An Article That I Never Read Inside Called 'happiness Is A Warm Gun.' I Took It Right From There. I Took It As The Terrible Idea Of Just Having Shot Some Animal.

We All Been Playing Those Mind Games Forever, Some Kinda Druid Dudes Lifting The Veil, Doing The Mind Guerrilla, Some Call It Magic The Search For The Grail. Love Is The Answer And You Know That For Sure, Love Is A Flower You Got To Let It Grow...

We Announce The Birth Of A Conceptual Country, Newtopia. Citizenship Of The Country Can Be Obtained By Declaration Of Your Awareness Of Newtopia. Newtopia Has No Land, No Boundaries, No Passports, Only People. Newtopia Has No Laws Other Than Cosmic. All People Of Newtopia Are Ambassadors Of The Country. As Two Ambassadors Of Newtopia, We Ask For Diplomatic Immunity And Recognition In The United Nations Of Our Country And Our People.

Control Yourself. You'll Spurt.

I Don't Know If I Want To Record Together Again. I Go Off And On It... In The Old Days, When We Needed An Album, Paul And I Got Together And Produced Enough Songs For It. Nowadays, There's Three Of Us Writing Prolifically And Trying To Fit It All Into One Album.

We're Trying To Sell Peace, Like A Product, You Know, And Sell It Like People Sell Soap Or Soft Drinks. And It's The Only Way To Get People Aware That Peace Is Possible, And It Isn't Just Inevitable To Have Violence. Not Just War - All Forms Of Violence.

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