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“Don’t hang out with people who don’t love you. Don’t try to impress people who aren’t worth it. Don’t try to win people over who aren’t worth it. Focus on yourself, and focus on the people who are really awesome and who love you. Don’t hang out with people who make you feel like shit. Don’t spend your energy on them. There is so much pressure to be part of the right thing: well, you should create the right thing. If you don’t see it, create it. If you don’t see what you want, be the change you want to see.”
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“I believe I owe all the best parts of my adulthood to embracing my imperfections and showcasing them.”
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“I'm a great believer in karma, and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.”
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“There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.”
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“I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.”
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“All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.”
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“Who cares? Jeri, who is fat, said. What makes somebody “too fat”? Why does it have to be like that?”
― Coal to Diamonds: A Memoir
― Coal to Diamonds: A Memoir
“Take your inspiration and let it lead you out into the world, into your big amazing genius life. Voices in your head, echoes of people trying to hold you down-tell them to fuck off. You're perfect the way you are. You don't need to change anything but the world, so get to it.”
― Coal to Diamonds: A Memoir
― Coal to Diamonds: A Memoir
“Under the whole "personal is political" motto of feminism, I feel that personal kindness, treating people decently, is political-is punk.”
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