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All I want is the truth, just give me some truth

All I want is the truth, just give me some truth

John Lennon
Giving, Want, Give Me
Song: Just Gimme Some Truth

If somebody gives me a joint, I might smoke it, but I don't go after it.

John Lennon
Giving, Might, Joints
John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?

John Lennon
Life, Giving, Knows
Song: How ?, Album: Imagine

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

John Lennon
Peace, Light, Giving
1969 Song (with his wife,Yoko Ono), used widely in protests against the Vietnam War.

I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was also pleased when the movement in America took up 'Give peace a chance' because I had written it with that in mind really.

John Lennon
Football, America, Giving
Source: www.counterpunch.org

Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.

John Lennon
Peace, Coping Mechanisms, Giving

You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.

John Lennon
Children, Giving, Too Much
Source: blankonblank.org

I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my songs aren't that doable.

John Lennon
Song, People, Giving
John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?

John Lennon
Years, Giving, Earth
John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

I'll give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind

John Lennon
Giving, Mind, Peace Of Mind

I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in the charts - I watch 'Come Together' (the flip side) because that's my song.

John Lennon
Music, Song, Giving

We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget.... They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom.

John Lennon
Army, People, Giving
"Playboy" Interview with David Sheff, September 1980.

You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.

John Lennon
School, People, Giving
Source: www.counterpunch.org

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