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Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#everything #instead #satisfying #spirit #tortures

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music. ↗

— Ayumi Hamasaki

#always #basic #composer #decide #difficult

I always like whatever I did most recently. It's the closest to who I am at the moment. ↗

— Ayumi Hamasaki

#am #closest #did #i #i always

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. ↗

— Ayumi Hamasaki

#i #people #realize #role #understand

I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome. ↗

— Ayumi Hamasaki

#asian #compared #especially #even #had

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times. ↗

— Ayumi Hamasaki

#dark #honest #i #i write #low

It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product. ↗

— Ayumi Hamasaki

#i #i am #necessary #product #viewed

Nobody's free until everybody's free. ↗

— Fannie Lou Hamer

#free #nobody #until

For the last five years I've been in the production business. ↗

— Chico Hamilton

#business #five #i #last #production

Abba is not Hebrew, the language of liturgy, but Aramaic, the language of home and everyday life … We need to be wary of the suggestion … that the correct translation of Abba is ‘Daddy.’ Abba is the intimate word of a family circle where that obedient reverence was at the heart of the relationship, whereas Daddy is the familiar word of a family circle from which all thoughts of reverence and obedience have largely disappeared … The best English translation of Abba is simply ‘Dear Father. ↗

— Thomas A. Smail

#christianity #daddy #fatherhood #reverence #translation