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Your Quotes for 8 December 2005 - John Lennon

I grew up in the '60s, learned a little guitar, and looked up to the creative geniuses that made the music of that era. Some were more than a little warped, like Jim Morrison of the Doors, born on this day in 1943. I sang along, and sometimes tried to play along, with records (remember records?) from the Doors, the Kinks, Jethro Tull, the Grateful Dead, and Led Zeppelin. But always at the top of the list, both for his raw creative force and his willingness to take on the world, was John Lennon, shot dead in the entrance to his home on this day in 1980.

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.

New York is what Paris was in the twenties ... the center of the art world. And we want to be in the center. It's the greatest place on earth.... I've got a lot of friends here and I even brought my own cash.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort?... Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

I get by with a little help from my friends.
     - All from John Lennon, 1940 - 1980

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