Top 100 Courtney Love Quotes
#1. These are my wakeup cupcakes, some anti-depressants, and a cell phone book
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#2. I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.
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#3. I've discreetly dated a lot of people - I once dated a billionaire, mostly because it was fun to say, "I'm dating a billionaire," but we did not have the same taste in music, and it was doomed.
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#5. Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together.
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#6. But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.
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#7. I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.
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#8. I get nervous about press and about being rejected or disappointing myself.
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#9. I wish people would just like me for what I am, the singer in an OK new wave band.
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#10. For years, despite having impeccable taste, I didn't understand how to convey that I had impeccable taste
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#11. I'm offended every time I see George Bush on TV!
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#12. If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.
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#13. There's even one for your titties. I haven't done the boobs mask one yet-you just stick it on your tits, apparently. I have to try it. But I did the foot one and the hand one yesterday, and it makes my skin crazy. It's like I just had sex for four days.
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#14. Making good records tastes good in your mouh. And when that record sells, it tastes even better.
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#15. Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.
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#16. I think commercial success is really important. It means there are more people listening, and you're affecting the zeitgeist more. If only a hundred people know you exist, it's harder to get your message across.
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#17. If you (the press) lie about us, I will hit you, Kurt will shoot you, and we both will sue.
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#18. Being offended is part of being in the real world.
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#19. He was so gorgeous ... Kurt. I don't know how I got lucky that way.
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#20. I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.
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#21. For people considering suicide, it is bullshit. Endure the moment.
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#22. I don't think you can ever do too much. Life would be so boring if you didn't have these, like, holes to fall into and climb out of. I want to do everything. I just want everything. I don't think you can ever have too much.
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#23. The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I'm not going to die.
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#25. I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.
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#26. I am not suicidal. Occasionally, like all of us, I get depressed and it was over a year ago and I had a little mini attack, well a big one ... I don't know quite why it happened but I find medication is not the answer to this.
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#27. I can turn on the radio right now and be inspired.
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#28. Everything that becomes true starts with a manifesto
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#29. I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.
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#31. I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.
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#32. I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.
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#33. No one's coming in seeing my dogs, daughter or the crack of my ass, forget it.
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#34. I don't really miss God but I sure miss Santa Claus!
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#35. I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.
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#36. There are ten commandments, I've only broken three.
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#37. My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.
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#38. Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.
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#39. I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric.
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#40. That is something I'm specifically equipped to discuss - how reputation can affect even your capacity to rent a place. Having good credit is irrelevant in the face of something like getting thrown out of court six years ago. I've really thought this out.
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#41. I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.
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#42. Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.
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#43. If there's any time you should be on drugs it's when you're pregnant, cause it sucks.
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#44. I'm so proud of myself. I worked with anger, with the darkest things in the world.
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#45. Don't be bitter and mean 'couse you don't fit in, it's a GIFT. Look at you. you've got your individuality, you don't have the herd instinct, you can read Neitzsche and understand it. Only dumb people are happy.
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#46. How can you love me if you dont know me? I stink really bad.
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#47. In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.
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#48. I like there to be some testosterone in rock, and it's like I'm the one in the dress who has to provide it.
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#50. I don't need any plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.
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#52. I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.
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#53. My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.
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#54. I have a lot of regrets, of course I do. I should have taken that part; I should have maybe married that one, I don't know, but I didn't. So I am what I am and I'm pretty confident that I can break in. I think what I have to offer on film and on television is honest.
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#55. I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!
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#56. Unless there are pictures, I don't admit to anything.
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#57. On Sofia Coppola's 16th birthday, way back in 1987, I stole a lip gloss from her Sistine Chapel of a bedroom. Years later, I left a Chanel lip gloss in the reception of the Mercer Hotel for her. You know why? I believe that you've got to fix your karma.
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#58. The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band that's gotten me competitive, and that's good.
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#59. Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.
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#60. Don't date the captain of the football team; be the captain of the football team.
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#61. You need to write on your own and produce your own life.
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#64. I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.
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#65. There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars cheating on their wives, sex.
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#66. I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.
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#67. I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.
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#69. Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly.
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#70. I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.
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#71. To me, 'selling out' means everyone bought a ticket.
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#72. No guy is worth your tears, but when you find that one that could be worth it, he shouldn't make you cry.
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#73. You should learn when to go
YOU SHOULD LEARN HOW TO SAY NO
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#74. I listen to too many people. I'm only going to listen to my gut for the rest of my life.
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#75. I am not here to make you feel better, I am just here to make you feel worse
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#76. Time flies when you're falling down ... (not from a book, it's a lyric)
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#77. It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.
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#78. I'm a major feminist. There's a real politic in life, where I've been in rooms where real decisions are made, and it's a lot of powerful white men. There are women in those rooms, but not as many as there should be.
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#79. The minute I got skinny and got a nose job and became photogenic, and all of a sudden I had a bidding war, and every boy I ever wanted, wanted me.
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#80. Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.
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#81. We went through ten years of the Limp Bizkit thing, and I didn't know what to do.
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#82. So, I gained a little..weight, .. Big deal. Clean and sober.
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#84. Remember, if you write anything nasty about me, I'll come around and blow up your toilet.
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#86. To find your female scream and not withhold is so liberating. You can do anything then. It's like you can fly. It gives you superpowers.
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#90. When I see 16 year-olds waiting for me, I just want to spank them and give them guitars and tell them to start bands. It's a bummer that girls have to respond to rock artists sexually instead of, like, 'wow, me too!'.
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#91. I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.
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#92. Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.
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#93. I wanted my anger to be valid, and the only way to do that is to be fairly attractive.
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#94. It was terrifying to realize life goes on without you.
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#95. There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.
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#96. Real girls aren't perfect, and perfect girls aren't real
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#97. I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.
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#98. Princess Di is my sister, she just won't admit it.
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#99. I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.
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#100. The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it's all part of being an artist. You cannot be something that you're not when you're not that thing anymore, and if you do that then you're a liar.
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