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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

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them. ↗

— Ayumi Hamasaki

#help #i #regulations #rules #them

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself. ↗

— Ayumi Hamasaki

#conscious #i #in the beginning #listener #me

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

That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done. ↗

— Robert Hamer

#done #else #everything #i #picture