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I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#i #liked #listen #myself #observer

I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#am #been #challenge #degree #demanded

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades. ↗

— Peter Asher

#business #decades #different #different roles #enjoyed

The first way not to shake hands is executed by receiving someone’s hand in yours and proceeding to squeeze it tightly, hurting the other party as if they were responsible for a past death in your family, or your adoption as a child. ↗

— Weston Locher

#comedy #essay #funny #humor #death

If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#century #compassion #create #got #gritty

In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#christian #continually #crosses #death #exercise

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#considering #far #flesh #forbidden #fruits

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision. ↗

— Sholem Asch

#country #experience #far #illness #into

I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#i #i am #obsessed #out #people

Touring is really a pretty lonely business. ↗

— Eddy Arnold

#lonely #lonely business #pretty #really #touring