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Some get the gravy, some get the gristle.

Joni Mitchell

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
Guitarist
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Roberta Joan Anderson
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Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand
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everything comes and goes pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow
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Morgellons is constantly morphing. There are times when it's directly attacking the nervous system, as if you're being bitten by fleas and lice. It's all in the tissue and it's not a hallucination. It was eating me alive, sucking the juices out. I've been sick all my life.
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The only thing I have to give to make you smile, to win you with, are all the mornings still to live.
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The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.
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I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd.
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They'll crucify you for staying the same, and they'll crucify you for change. I'd rather be crucified for changing.
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I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.
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All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too.
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Because Elvis gave 'em cars, you think I'm cheap.
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I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
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An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.
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They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got till it's gone
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