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“I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.”
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Edith Piaf
#People Quotes
#Want Quotes
#Cry Quotes
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“As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.”
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Edith Piaf
#Couple Quotes
#Lying Quotes
#Mean Quotes
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“I was hungry. I was cold. But I was also free. Free not to get up in the morning, not to go to bed at night, free to get drunk if I liked, to dream... to hope.”
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Edith Piaf
#Dream Quotes
#Morning Quotes
#Night Quotes
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“Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.”
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Edith Piaf
#Pay Quotes
#Fool Quotes
#This Life Quotes
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“Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.”
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Edith Piaf
#Law Quotes
#People Quotes
#Giving Quotes
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“Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.”
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Edith Piaf
#Stars Quotes
#Use Quotes
#Faults Quotes
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“I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?”
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Edith Piaf
#Jesus Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Strange Quotes
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“I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.”
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Edith Piaf
#Life Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Tears Quotes
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“If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.”
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Edith Piaf
#Money Quotes
#Giving Quotes
#Saving Money Quotes
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“For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.”
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Edith Piaf
#Sleep Quotes
#Waste Quotes
#Wasting Time Quotes
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“To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.”
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Edith Piaf
#Successful Quotes
#People Quotes
#France Quotes
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“Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.”
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Edith Piaf
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“All I've done all my life is disobey.”
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Edith Piaf
#Done Quotes
#Life Is Quotes
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“People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.”
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Edith Piaf
#Book Quotes
#Phones Quotes
#People Quotes
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“Americans want beauties, not me. I’m not the Parisian bombshell they expected. Can you see me as a chorus girl? Where’s my feather up the ass? They think I’m sad, they’re dumb. I don’t connect to them”
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Edith Piaf
#Girl Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Dumb Quotes
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“I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.”
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Edith Piaf
#Coward Quotes
#Persons Quotes
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“My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.”
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Edith Piaf
#Instinct Quotes
#Streets Quotes
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“Drugs are a carnival in hell.”
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Edith Piaf
#Addiction Quotes
#Drug Quotes
#Hell Quotes
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“When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses.”
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Edith Piaf
#Love Quotes
#Glasses Quotes
#Rose Quotes
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“Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.”
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Edith Piaf
#Escaping Quotes
#Singing Quotes
#World Quotes
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“Death is the beginning of something.”
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Edith Piaf
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“I don't want to die an old lady.”
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Edith Piaf
#Want Quotes
#Wanting To Die Quotes
#Old Lady Quotes
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“I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.”
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Edith Piaf
#Song Quotes
#Feelings Quotes
#One Day Quotes
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“I always thought my days spent in darkness [as a child she had cataracts and was unable to see for nearly four years] gave me a very special sensitivity. Much later, when I really wanted to hear, really 'see' a song, I'd close my eyes, and when I wanted to bring it out of the very depths of myself, out of my guts, out of my belly, when the song had to come from far away, I'd close my eyes.”
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Edith Piaf
#Song Quotes
#Children Quotes
#Eye Quotes
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“Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.”
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Edith Piaf
#Fly Away Quotes
#Dove Quotes
#Curtains Quotes
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“I don't lie; I improve on my life.”
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Edith Piaf
#Lying Quotes
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“I can die now. I've lived twice.”
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Edith Piaf
#Last Words Quotes
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“I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly ...”
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Edith Piaf
#Thinking Quotes
#Dying Quotes
#Ugly Quotes
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“Death does not exist.”
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Edith Piaf
#Doe Quotes
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“To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.”
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Edith Piaf
#Impossible Quotes
#Mediocre Quotes
