"It's pretty hard when you are Caesar..." - Quote by John Lennon
It's pretty hard when you are Caesar and everyone is saying how wonderful you are and they are giving you all the goodies and the girls, it's pretty hard to break out of that, to say 'Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.'
More by John Lennon
“I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off.”
“As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.”
“Nothing is real.”
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“If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do.”
“Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.”
“It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all, no matter how much money we are paid for halting.”