Tattoo Quotes - Page 4

• Knowledge is the antidote to fear

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Fear

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• People like to come up to me and tell me that I’ve got nice ink. Except these tattoos aren’t just decorations. They are declarations. Every tattoo I have tells its own story about who I am. Drug-free. Honor. And a war against the system.

  CM Punk

  War, Nice, Who I Am

  "Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW)", July 11, 2006.

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• When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things. I did it (the O-Z-Z-Y tattoo across his knuckles) when I was 14. I was in jail for something. I could have had it removed, but why? It's my trademark. People stop me and say, 'Let me have a look at your hand.'

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Stupid, Silly, Hands

  Launch Magazine, October 30, 1998.

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• I have a lot of tattoos. My first tattoo I had when I was a teenager was just a little heart. I am very friendly with a great artist, Scott Campbell, and I started going to him to get tattoos. I'm very spontaneous about what I get.

  Marc Jacobs

  Teenager, Heart, Artist

  "Marc Jacobs Reveals The Naked Truth". GQ interview, gq.co.za. September 7, 2015.

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• Some of us can begin to heal the damage people have done to us by escaping the situation, but some of us need more than that. Tattoos make statements that need to be made. Or hide things that are no one’s business. Your scars are battle wounds, but you don’t see them that way. Yet.

  Tammara Webber

  Battle Wounds, Escaping, People

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• The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Birthday, Death, Condolences

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Kindness, Greatness, Soul

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• My tattoos remind me of all that I have been through.

  Riff Raff

  Has Beens

  Inked Magazine Interview, www.inkedmag.com. November 7, 2014.

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• I have a handful of tattoos that I really want to put on people that I can't find anyone to let me give them to.

  Jemima Kirke

  People, Giving, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We have certain rules for traditional lyric poetry in Korea. I twist my body, confused by what to say and how to act, facing these rules. Confronting traditional lyricism, I speak with a bare body without the tattoos of culture on it.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Confused, Korea, Lyric Poetry

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I love to make music, I love to get tattoos...That's just what I love. If I wasn't getting paid I'd still do it.

  Kevin Gates

  Stills, Paid, Ifs

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• The ‘black metallers’ will probably continue to ‘get loaded,’ ‘get high,’ and in all other manners too behave like the stereotypical Negro; they will probably continue to get foreign tribal tattoos, dress, walk, talk, look and act like homosexuals, and so forth.

  Varg Vikernes

  Black, Dresses, Looks

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• I was just a big fan of tattoos always growing up, and I wanted something cool that symbolizes what I've been through in my life, and everything on my chest and my back is like a collage.

  Kevin Durant

  Growing Up, Fans, Bigs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.

  Robert Genn

  Girl, Teenage, Unseen

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• Just saw a woman with a big tattoo of Jesus on her back. I guess it's an ixnay on the oggy style-day.

  Dana Gould

  Jesus, Style, Saws

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• I always say your body is the temple of your spirit, why not decorate it? My kids say, no, no, your body is the temple of your spirit, keep it clean. I'm covered in tattoos and I get a tattoo every time I write a book. I get the tattoo from the book.

  Bill Ayers

  Book, Writing, Kids

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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• The conservatism is extraordinary to me; just compare the way they dress to the way their parents dress. There are still no tattoos or piercings, which is interesting to me. Why does everyone who lives in one place dress alike, look alike, eat the same thing, and decorate the same way?

  Tina Barney

  Interesting, Parent, Compare

  "Photographer Tina Barney captures the lives of the upper crust". Interview With A.M. Homes, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 12, 2017.

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• He said, I'm better off without her, until I showed him my tattoo.

  Tom Waits

  Advice, Said, Better Off

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• I'm not enthused by these rap dudes.
  All in they videos, posin' half nude, with all of them tattoos,
  Til I blacken they eyes and have them lookin' like raccoons.

  Trife Diesel

  Rap, Eye, Hip Hop

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• Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.

  Joan Baez

  Reality, Parent, Brain

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• Its interesting, the things you learn when youre 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if youre not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Fire, Interesting, Shooting

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• I've always been the type of person - you know, I kind of am extreme. So you know, I'm not, like, oh, let me get one tattoo. It's, like, my old whole arm has to be covered.

  LeCrae

  Arms, Kind, Type

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• One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Real, Reading, Kids

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• Well, I love tattoos and have been drawing them on my binders in school since I was little.

  Kimberly Caldwell

  School, Drawing, Littles

  "Best Ink" Host and "American Idol" Alum Kimberly Caldwell Talks Tattoos (Q&A)". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 27, 2012.

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• I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.

  Urs Fischer

  Thinking, Looks, Colorful

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