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Yoko Ono
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John and I felt that we were like people in an H. G. Wells story. Two people who are walking so fast that nobody else can see them.
— 25 Things Even My Best Friends Didn’t Know Until Now (1 October 2009)
Yoko Ono
Japanese artist and activist based in the United States (born 1933)
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Born 1933 · age 93Japan
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She entered the 1960s downtown art scene as an avant-garde conceptualist, then married a Beatle and became one of the most polarizing figures in popular culture — blamed for a breakup she didn't cause, dismissed for work that predated the relationship, and only decades later recognized as the dance-chart architect and performance pioneer she'd been all along
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Born in Tokyo in 1933, Ono moved to New York in 1952 and joined the city's experimental art circles in the early 1960s, including the Fluxus movement. In 1969 she married John Lennon and the two formed the Plastic Ono Band, staging a bed-in honeymoon protest against the Vietnam War and recording together throughout the 1970s. Their collaboration Double Fantasy topped the charts and won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1980, released three weeks before Lennon was shot outside their Dakota apartment building on December 8. She continued alone, eventually placing twelve singles at number one o…
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Yoko Ono
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In a day, sometimes I feel so much love for the world, I think my heart is bursting. Sometimes, I feel so scared, I want to shrink myself even further.
— 25 Things Even My Best Friends Didn’t Know Until Now (1 October 2009).
Yoko Ono
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I dedicate this light tower to John Lennon my love for you is forever yoko ono October 9th 2007
— Dedication on the Imagine Peace Tower base (2007).
Yoko Ono
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I’m not that concerned about professional politicians. I always believe that we can change the world by grass-roots movements. It is a very important thing to do.
— quoted in "Imagine Peace—A Ray of Light in Dark Times" by Amy Goodman (2007)
Yoko Ono
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There is a saying that a glass is half empty or half full, depending on how you look at it. Well, we all know that one.
— Game Is Not Over - 2005 Oxford Union Address
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- Blueprint for a Sunrise2001
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