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My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.

— Joni Mitchell

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.

— John Mayer

Obviously, sometimes I just feel like looking like a box of crayons.

— Brad Goreski

When I was a kid, I always wanted to dye my hair crazy colors.

— Dove Cameron

I love old funky things. Color just makes me happy, and things all lined up.

— Bobbi Brown

My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it.

— Paris Hilton

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black.

— Joan Didion

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

— Kary Mullis

✗Opposing Perspectives

It's crazy how many nude lip crayons I own - I probably need to get rid of some.

— Khloe Kardashian

I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.

— Karl Lagerfeld