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Yoko Ono

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I learned everything from her. ... It is a teacher-pupil relationship. That's what people don't understand. She's the teacher and I'm the pupil. I'm the famous one, the one who's supposed to know everything, but she's my teacher. She's taught me everything I f**king know.
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John Lennon, in an interview with David Sheff (September 1980), published in Playboy (January 1981)

 
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