I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
GRACE JONESIt was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn’t be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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Survival is my primary instinct…it’s out of my control. It’s stronger than me. It’s an outside force, a voice that says ‘do this for your life or it will devour you.’
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Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
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I don’t know what I’m going to be doing in two years or even in two weeks. I have to live for today.
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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I’ve turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It’s an absolute no-go.
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I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
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I’m not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn’t like what they were saying. Just lash out. ‘Bam – shut up! Hahahah!’ I was terrible.
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There will always be a replacement coming along very soon – a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven’t got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday’s event.
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Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it’s just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I’ve found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.
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Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.
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Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.
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I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.
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I’m still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year… I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.
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I’ve lived long enough to feel the sway of corporations both legal and illegal. Corporations give you drugs and they prescribe and prescribe them and they can be worse for you. Whereas you have illegal drugs and that is all about moderation. You have to know your body.
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