Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."
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John Lennon
Musician, Activist
"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end."
Robert Frost
Poet
"But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."
Kurt Cobain
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not."
Bill Hicks
Comedian, Writer
"Don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride."
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"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery."
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"As for the primitive, I hark back to it because we are still very primitive. How many thousands of years of culture, think you, have rubbed and polished at our raw edges? One probably; at the best, no more than two. And that takes us back to screaming savagery, when, gross of body and deed, we drank blood from the skulls of our enemies, and hailed as highest paradise the orgies and carnage of Valhalla."
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"For every single dark night there is a brighter day."
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"Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past."
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"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
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"My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the cornrows. I took a beating for those types of things."
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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
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"Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."
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"It's all too much and not enough at the same time."
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"I love to make music, I love to get tattoos...That's just what I love. If I wasn't getting paid I'd still do it."
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"I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I'm wearing a dagger!"
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"The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep..."
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"I really think if you have a tattoo you have to wonder about what kind of future you have ahead of you. As an employer, I wouldn't employ someone with tattoos as I would wonder what customers would think about them. For me, tattoos are just a way for people to find attention who haven't found another way in their life to achieve it by conventional means."
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"When one door closes, another one opens."
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"Though she be but little, she is fierce!"
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"My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist."
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"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
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"Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness."
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"I wanted alot of tattoos but I never thought I was gonna be this rediculous."
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"Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body."
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