"I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living."

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Source : "Grimes Wrote a Tumblr Manifesto Against Sexism" by Amanda Dobbins, www.vulture.com. April 24, 2013.

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“You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.”
“Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.”
“The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.”
“I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.”

Source : "Why the Sound Is Still Sweet: Q&A with Joan Baez". Interview with Marlene Kelly, www.oprah.com. November 4, 2009.
“The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions. I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again.”
“Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters.”
“I've been thinking a lot about Anacortes and what it's like to be here, though I'm not trying to get people to move here - I would hate that.”
“The secret of my vigor and activity is that I have managed to have a lot of fun.”

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