Tattoo quotes
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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."
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
"Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness."
"I wanted alot of tattoos but I never thought I was gonna be this rediculous."
"Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body."
"Take these broken wings and learn to fly."
"When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better."
"Live each day as if it were your last for some day it will be."
"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity."
"My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story."
"Do not go gentle into that good night."
"It makes me so mad that some people underestimate the wisdom and energy of young people. All because they don't look the way older folks think they should look. I'm working on a song about it. Maybe some of those closed minded people will realize long hair and tattoos don't mean they should be ignored. Close minded people are part of what's wrong with this world."
"I knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo."
"God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them."
"I got more than a thing for you, tattoo wit a ink for you right over my heart girl, I'll do the unthinkable."
"Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism."
"She's a classy girl though, at least all her tattoos are spelt right."
"I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time."
"I try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can't do. There are opportunities that rappers I love simply can't get, because... you know... I don't have the tattoos; I have a different image."
"Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves."
