"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."

-- Janis Joplin

#Positive Quotes #Being Yourself Quotes #Strong Women Quotes

“I believe that Manila can be a reflection of your state of mind. Being a city of extreme contrasts it's easy to see how it can become an intense personal experience. Manila can be chaotic and spiritual, dirty and divine, gritty and gorgeous all at once. If you don't find beauty and poetry here, you will never find it anywhere.”
“I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.”
“The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.”
“Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.”

Source : "Born under Saturn: the character and conduct of artists : a documented history from antiquity to the French Revolution". Book by Margot Wittkower and Rudolf Wittkower, 1963.
“It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head”
“Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.”
“Intention is for achievers. Hope is for the hopeless.”
“By the shores of Gitchee Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis, Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.”

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