Popular quotes

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“I don't care what you think unless it is about me.”

“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.”

“Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.”

“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”

“I miss the comfort in being sad.”

“We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content.”

“Leave this world a little better than you found it.”

“What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway!”

“Why not just tell people I'm an alien from Mars. Tell them I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight. They'll believe anything you say, because you're a reporter. But if I, Michael Jackson, were to say, "I'm an alien from Mars and I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight," people would say, "Oh, man, that Michael Jackson is nuts. He's cracked up. You can't believe a damn word that comes out of his mouth."”

“I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.”

“You cannot regulate desire.”

“My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.”

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”

“I’m not mad. I’m in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.”

“The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.”

“Sorry I'm late. You wouldn't believe the traffic.”

“My unhappiness was the unhappiness of a person who could not say no. I had been intimidated by the fear that if I declined something offered me, a yawning crevice would open between the other person's heart and myself which could never be mended through all eternity.”

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

“Every person who is tempted to go astray, does not deserve punishment.”