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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.

Janis Joplin

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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Everywhere Important Out Person Singer Singing Sort Started Street
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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Anything Brain Man Minute Sort Switch
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Answer Inspirational Intellectual Question Strong Woman
At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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Know Least Nouns Object Objects Plural Retract
You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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Existed Feel Good Mouth Open Something
Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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Decision Know Night One Rejection Stand Story
If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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Back Good Hold Holding Rather Sometimes
In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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Feeling Hurt Inside Like Really Silly Story
What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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Control Essence Learn Lose Perspective Succes
Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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Mediocre Now Sound Twenties Twenty Year
It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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Feeling Happy Learned Soul Unhappy
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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Dishwasher Fighting Only Problem Somebody. Settle Want
I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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Feel Feeling Much Soul Think
The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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Action Consequence Happen Implication Result Screw
Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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First Girl Guess Hippie might Pinup
You got to get it while you can.
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Afford Can Got Inspire Positive You

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