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Yoko Ono

(1933) Peace Activist United States

391 quotes in 1466 categories

Yoko Ono advises a morning smile can shift your whole day. She reminds officials they are accountable to the people who elected them. She also believes that personal change can ripple into world change, and that love remains possible even when cynicism rises.

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Yoko Ono is a peace activist from the United States, best known for Memories of John Lennon.

Quick Facts About Yoko Ono

Born: February 18, 1933
Nationality: United States
Profession: Peace Activist
Notable works: Memories of John Lennon
Known for: Wish Tree for Washington, DC, SKY
Spouse: John Lennon

About Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono is a Japanese artist, musician and peace activist who also works in performance art and filmmaking.

Awards & Honors

Grammy Award for Best Music Film Grammy Award for Album of the Year MOJO Awards Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award Great Immigrants Award Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Award

Quotes by Yoko Ono

Love is what I give to the one I love.

Giving

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Faces can lie. Backsides can't.

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Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

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Smile to the future and it will smile back to you

Always smile

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Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?

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Art is my life and my life is art.

Art

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Art for me is like breathing.

Art

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I'm not going to doubt my life.

Doubt

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Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved.

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It's always good to do something that is not a repeat. I just don't believe in repeating.

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After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.

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There are things you can never take, no matter how strong you are.

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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right' Sean's doing his own thing.

Mothers

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It's better that you're criticized than complimented as a person.

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The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

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Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

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When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible

Cynical

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I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a…

Beautiful

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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some…

Beauty

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The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean.

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Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.

Climate

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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…

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I never thought, "I'm going to be an artist". When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made…

Art

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If I hear dance music, my body starts to move. Whatever the dance music is, I can't help it. With all that,…

Art

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Sometimes I have compared myself with a scientist or something: when you discover something and you don't expect the whole world to…

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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…

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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization…

Art

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Every time I create something, just before that there's a kind of - you're feeling very low, you're feeling very down and…

Creativity

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This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to…

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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…

Feminism

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If you have a slave around the house how can you expect to make a revolution outside it? The problem for women…

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What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And…

Age

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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…

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I wonder why men can get serious at all. They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up…

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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…

Better world

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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…

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Peace is here now. It's just that we don't recognize it. Let's say that 98 percent of people in the world are…

Children

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It's better to dance than to march through life.

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When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

Both sides

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Yoko Ono by topic

People (65) Thinking (53) Art (47) Artist (45) World (40) Life (40) Music (35) Love (33) Time (28) Song (25) Inspirational (16) Men (15) Giving (15) Peace (14)