#many

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#caught #depressed #die #down #ear

Yonkers made me strong and made me believe in myself, because so many people would doubt you and not believe. There are people that would believe in you, but the environment was so harsh, nobody wanted you to get out, you know? ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#believe #doubt #environment #get #harsh

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives. ↗

— Raoul Dufy

#arrives #aside #cast #creation #down

So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#damaged #fate #i #knowing #lives

My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#families #family #just #many #mom

On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way. ↗

— Hans Blix

#big #convention #global #global warming #instances

It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life. ↗

— Felix Bloch

#hard #ideas #inevitable #later #life

I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#bring #class #colleagues #ethnic #family

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#awful #because #before #book #concepts

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#anxiety #causes #discourse #going #great