You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINI 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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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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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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