Tattoo Quotes - Page 14

• I've always wanted to have tattoos. I grew up around people who were very tattooed. It's a self-expression thing; it's also helped me claim my body as my own. So I think it's really positive. It's really joyful.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, Self, Expression

  "Margaret Cho Is Here, Queer, And Taking Questions About Anything". Interview with Ariane Lange, www.buzzfeed.com. January 21, 2015.

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• Everybody in America is a part of this big herd of cattle being led to the marketplace, not to be sold, which is usual with cattle, but to do the buying. And everyone is branded. You see the brands - Nike, Puma, Coke - all over their bodies. Pretty soon you'll go to a family and say, "$100,000 if we can tattoo Pepsi on your child's forehead, and we'll have it removed when he's twenty-one. A hundred grand."

  George Carlin

  Nike, Children, America

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• Everybody gets the tattoo they deserve.

  David Duchovny

  Deserve

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• As soon as I saw tattoos as a way to tell your story, I thought, 'Oh my gosh, I totally get it.' So I got my first tattoo a couple of years ago, and it's the word 'hope' on my left arm. It has a couple of dots at the end for each of my kids.

  Kristian Bush

  Couple, Kids, Years

  Biography\Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a swastika tattoo on my arm, but it's just because I like right-hand turns.

  Kyle Dunnigan

  Hands, Arms, Turns

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• I don't feel that I need a tattoo to represent myself as a Samoan or a Christian.

  Troy Polamalu

  Christian, Needs, Feels

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• How does it taste?” Carter wondered. Zia smiled. “Stick out your tongue.” To answer Carter’s question, the tattoo tasted like burning car tires. “Ugh.” I spit a blue gob of “order and harmony” into the fountain.

  Rick Riordan

  Blue, Order, Car

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.

  Sarah Hall

  Men, He Man, Lad

  Sarah Hall (2010). “The Electric Michelangelo”, p.149, Faber & Faber

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• Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments, in architecture and in humans.

  Emma Forrest

  Years, Scar, Architecture

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Thin Skin”, p.53, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of flaccid tattoos droop like moth-eaten upholstery over poorly stuffed biceps and saggy asses?

  Jennifer Egan

  Kids, Biceps, Three

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.258, Anchor

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• Besides, do you think you would have come if I’d just popped into your tattoo shop one night around closing and said, ‘Hello, I’m the Prince of Darkness. Think you could help me out with a little war next Tuesday, say, sixish?

  Richard Kadrey

  War, Thinking, Night

  Richard Kadrey (2007). “Butcher Bird”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.

  Yelawolf

  Gun, Persons

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• Your tattoos are supposed to be some connection to your personality. That's a lot more important than going in and just picking one off a wall. I've never understood why people get butterflies tattooed on their bottoms or whatever. That's really weird.

  Ville Valo

  Wall, Butterfly, People

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• As a girl, she was a legal prey, especially if she was dressed in a worn black leather jacket and had pierced eyebrows, tattoos, and zero social status.

  Steig Larsson

  Girl, Zero, Leather Jackets

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• Then it’s just Venia, whose skin is so pale her tattoos appear to be leaping off it. Almost rigid with determination, she does my hair and nails and makeup, fingers flying swiftly to compensate for her absent teammates. The whole time, she avoids my gaze. It’s only when Cinna shows up to approve me and dismiss her that she takes my hands, looks me straight in the eye, and says, “We would all like you to know what a…privilege it has been to make you look your best.” Then she hastens from the room.

  Suzanne Collins

  Determination, Eye, Makeup

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.800, Scholastic Inc.

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• I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arrival is more subtle and complex. It involves acts of contrition. You must appease the gods. You must find novel forms of penance. You must tattoo your children and look at the wonder. It's about conjuring and awakening and intuitions you wish you never had.

  Kate Braverman

  Children, Real, California

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• He gave me a copy of The Declaration of Independence, then he got a tattoo that says Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death. I think my boyfriend wants his freedom.

  Randy Glasbergen

  Humorous, Thinking, Giving

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• Every year I make a plan. I do it. It will be done.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Years, Done, Plans

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• Uniqueness does not come from external things that people do to themselves or other things like what they wear. All the uniqueness that radiates to the world comes from how you deal with the world, your best inner strengths. It never comes from a tattoo or a designer outfit.

  Eva Mozes Kor

  Inspiring, People, Inner Strength

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• I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

  Amanda Holden

  School, Ears, Detention

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• If I see a black kid in a hoodie and it's late at night, I'm walking to the other side of the street. And if on that side of the street, there's a guy that has tattoos all over his face, white guy, bald head, tattoos everywhere, I'm walking back to the other side of the street, and the list goes on of stereotypes that we all live up to and are fearful of.

  Mark Cuban

  Kids, Night, White

  "Did Dallas Mavericks Owner Drop The Ball On Sterling Controversy?". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 23, 2014.

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• Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body.

  Keanu Reeves

  Past, Interesting, Body

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• Tattoos to me are the outward symbol of the inward change within my soul.

  Nicolas Cage

  Soul, Inward, Symbols

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• I got a little tattoo on my face, I'll never be able to work another real job so I consider that to be kinda forcing myself to stick to music.

  Benji Madden

  Real

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.

  Cassia Leo

  Fighting, Dna, People

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