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Yoko Ono, born on February 18, 1933, is a Japanese-born American artist, musician, and peace activist. She is known for her unique artistic style and contributions to music, visual art, and performance art.

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“I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them.”

People Thinking Kind Males Versions Witch Wizards Witchcraft

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“Your thoughts create reality. The most pragmatic way to create world peace is to use your power of visualization. Think Peace, Act Peace, Spread Peace, Imagine Peace. Your thoughts will soon cover the planet. The most important thing is to believe in your power. It works.”

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“Some people say, "Sometimes I have violent thoughts, what can I do?" So I say, "Well, have them!" Cos we should not try to control ourselves. It's very bad to control ourselves in this sense. If you have any emotion at all, if its a bad emotion or good emotion, think about it, you should just understand that you have those emotions. And it's good because we are people and we have all these emotions. And the result of that is you would become more and more peaceful. If you don't let those emotions be inside of you then you become extremely violent.”

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“To have world peace, we all have to have a healthy understanding of what is necessary to bring World Peace. It's not something that will be dropped on our laps. We have to work for it. Until we get World Peace, I think my strongest passion stays in the effort to get it.”

Thinking World Passion Understanding Effort Healthy Strongest Lap

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“It's difficult to explain love. You want to explain water? You need a book for it. There are many different ways to explain what water is. Love is big, it's very big. I know that I have tons of it. But maybe we don't want to open up so much, and we think, maybe we don't have so much, but yes, you know that you have tons of love. We all do. Through that love we can connect, we can heal each other, we can make people, all of us, happy, joyful, and make a better world.”

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“Some people are saying there's going to be a third World War. I hope not. I really think this is a time that people can start to mend things by negotiations, dealings. We know about dealings, don't we? We have brilliant lawyers. Why don't we have brilliant lawyers standing up and working for peace?”

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“I'm into indie music. I think indie is going to bring back the spirit in music. There was a time when it was all about accommodating the music business, the music was getting tasteless, but the spirit is back.”

Thinking Spirit Music Business Indie Music

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“I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. Don't be scared of witches, because we are good witches, and you should appreciate our magical power.”

Thinking Should Appreciate Scared Witch Good Witch

Author:Yoko Ono

“I think something that's very important for us to communicate is usually very simple. Like breathing: Breathing is very simple. You don't do a dissonant 9th harmony or something in breathing. You just breathe, you know. I think that's how it is with very important messages.”

Thinking Knows Important Simple Messages Harmony Communicate Breathe Breathing

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“I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple.”

Thinking Trying Kind Use Certain Simple Divine Ambition Harmony Complexes Rhythm Always Trying

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“When you go on a stage, before you go on a stage you're really scared and you're really frightened. You don't know what to do. "Why did I say yes to this?" But once you're on the stage you think, "Okay."”

Thinking Knows Stage Goes On Okay Scared Frightened

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“Think of the Earth as a turning point in eternity. Think of the Earth as a meeting point in infinity.”

Thinking Earth Eternity Meetings Infinity Turning Points

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“I am the type of person who would do something thoroughly if someone said, "I don't think you can do it." I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Said Spirit Strong Can Do Type You Can Do It Rebellious

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“I don't think you make a choice to be an artist. There was no decision for me. I've been expressing myself this way since I can remember.”

Thinking Way I Can Remember Artist Choices Decision

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“I never wanted to be a professional artist; I think that's limiting.”

Thinking Wanted Artist

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“Everyone is an artist and a genius, I think. If we don't choose to limit ourselves then we are totally accomplished.”

Ifs Thinking Artist Genius Limits Accomplished

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“I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen.”

People Thinking Happens Creativity Limitation

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“The male society is letting the men think of the women as something pretty and soft and that kind of thing. So I just wanted to show what we were. Women are the ones who actually created the human race. I mean without us bringing up the new generation, there wouldn't be a human race.”

Thinking Men Humans Kind Mean Shows Wanted Race Generations He Man Males Human Race New Generation

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“I think I'm an observer in a way. And my life was not so - well, my life was bad too - but it's just that I had the sense to cope with it. But it's probably not that easy to cope if you're in a society where you get killed when your husband dies.”

Ifs Thinking Way Wells Dies Easy Husband Observers Your Husband

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“I love to work. Doing things we love is how we relax, I think.”

Thinking Love Is Relax

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“If I was a Jewish girl in Hitler's day, I would become his girlfriend. After ten days in bed, he would come to my way of thinking.”

Ifs Thinking Way Girl Bed Ten My Way Girlfriend Way Of Thinking

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“I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself.”

Thinking Seems Choices Violence Century Goes On Vietnam Very Sad Perpetuating

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“You are beautiful. Don't ever think you are not. It may be such a compliment that does not come from a man too often. They are shy, proud, and rude. Give yourself some love. And walk as what you are - a beautiful woman. All your life.”

Thinking Men Giving May Doe Beautiful Walks Proud Shy Compliment Rude Beautiful Women You Are Beautiful

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“I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.”

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“Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.”

Thinking World Remember Messages Spread Changing The World Power To Change Power To Change The World

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“If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Use Happens Universe Energy Connected

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“I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.”

Thinking Has Beens Artist Known Five Havens Changed Decades I Haven't Changed

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“I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.”

People Thinking Giving Littles Important Energy Bits Little Bit Important Things Performers Pretentious

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“I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'”

Ifs Thinking Giving Night Accepting Late Stereotype

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“I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.”

Thinking Trying Artist Block December

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“It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.”

Ifs Thinking Might Black Happened Painting Waste Red Wasting Time Time To Think

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“People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.”

People Thinking Stills War Problem Violence Problem Solving Violence And War

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“To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.”

People Thinking Beautiful Guy Pure Passionate Scared

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“What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.”

Thinking World Artist

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“I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.”

Thinking Should Problem Might Situation Solutions Calm Tense Stay Calm

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“I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.”

Thinking Giving Important Body Spiritual Heal Performers Translate Spiritual Power

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“I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.”

Thinking Important Prejudice Incredibles Myth Witch Destroying Wizards

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“I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.”

Thinking Bigs Differences Music Business

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“I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!”

Thinking Book Feelings Seems Cities Picks Connections Locals Definite Selection Bookshops

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“In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?”

Thinking Knows Way War Enjoy Politician Vietnam Anti War Cop Vietnam War Banner Machismo Anti Vietnam War

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“People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.”

People Thinking World Opposites Senses

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“Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.”

People Thinking Movement Expression Higher Ballet Acceptable Dirt Elitist

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“The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.”

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“There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.”

Thinking Needs Accepting Feminism Liberated Hogwash

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“When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.”

People Thinking Knows Way Helping Brain Communication Very Happy Instagram

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“I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them. It's the male chauvinistic society that we're living in for the longest time, 3,000 years or whatever. And so I just wanted to point out the fact that men and women are magical beings. We are very blessed that way, so I'm just bringing that out. Don't be scared of witches, because we are good witches, and you should appreciate our magical power.”

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“You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.”

Thinking Mind May Universe Introvert

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“I should think that people would be more interested in politics and all that is happening, rather than two lovebirds who are looking to wed. I think it's very nice that in an age when love is so scarce that people are willing to gamble on getting married.”

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“Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.”

Thinking Inspirational Joy Imagine Sky Ocean Dancing Bottom Think Of You Singer Songwriters Dolphins

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“Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.”

Thinking Art Artist Magician Wizards Lennon

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About the Author

Born: February 18, 1933
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 363

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