- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pain Quotes
On pain endured, hidden, and turned into art.
This set moves between the physical and the emotional - an athlete accepting that pain eventually comes with the job, and a claim of feeling none of life's pain at all. Related reading: Silence.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that my music without pain is good music - and I wouldn't know, because I haven't made any music without pain.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of time, my inspiration comes from pain: growing pains, hunger pains, or money pains.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as 'General Admission' came out, there was a whole new pain that hit me that was rougher than I could imagine.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all somebody's children, and when we're in pain, we regress, instinctively looking to our parents to make everything better.
- Rest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm separated by other performers with whom I might be lumped, since what I say is so intensely personal. I'm anti-art and anti-poetry. As much as possible, I want to inflict my personal pain on the rest of society.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you can come out from under pain, why wouldn't you? You definitely can. There's no question.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women's clothes are SO revealing - Ladies you have my respect.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Telling parents in New Jersey you want to act isn't exactly like telling them you want to be a doctor or a dentist. There are no guarantees. It's hard, but all the arts are. Can you imagine the pain of writer's block?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bodily discomfort and emotional fear and attachment make the dying uncomfortable and fearful. So, to help those dying people, I think modern medical science has a lot of facilities to reduce pain, or perhaps not to reduce pain, but not to experience pain.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think black women feel an obligatory pressure to be stronger than everybody else, not necessarily to suppress the pain.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2002, I decided I wanted to leave my car at home and create an experiment with my own life. I'd only be able to find creative solutions to transportation if I felt the pain of trying to get to downtown at 10 o'clock at night.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a teenager I would look in the mirror and wish I could wash away my syndrome. I hated it because it caused so much pain in my life.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020