#are

I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school. ↗

— Tatyana Ali

#because #dedicated #guess #i #i am

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#accept #believe #care #cause #death

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#broad #everything #exists #intoxicate #kind

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#philosophy #self-assurance #parenting

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring. ↗

— Tori Amos

#compared #feel #getting #occurring #passage

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career. ↗

— Tori Amos

#assume #business #business people #career #charge

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#common #happy #little #lumped #minimalism

We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life. ↗

— David Amram

#both #common #common interests #country #dreams

For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular. ↗

— Namie Amuro

#care #doing #else #everyone #i

I've created my own career in my life, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. I think that's good. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#created #doing #fun #good #had