You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
JANIS JOPLINYou’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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