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.
GRACE JONESDisco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don’t get up and dance, you aren’t human!
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
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Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
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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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When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That’s probably why it’s so scary, because they scared me.
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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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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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Disco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don’t get up and dance, you aren’t human!
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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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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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In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.
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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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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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