#my

I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me. ↗

— River Phoenix

#change #i #i can #learn #live

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own. ↗

— River Phoenix

#am #because #commodity #does #especially

All I've done all my life is disobey. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#done #i #life #my life

I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#annals #day #feeling #had #i

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#give #happiness #hate #life #look

The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#creativity #enemy #good #sense

I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#i #life #my life #never #over

I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#anybody #difference #i #i always #large

I've been married over 50 years of my life. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#i #life #married #my life #over

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#because #being #characters #come #even