If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
JANIS JOPLINIf someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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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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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.
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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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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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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, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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