#then

I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have. ↗

— Jewel

#ever #i #ideal #only #then

When we're children we're told love is going to be great: Just fall in love, the rest will take care of itself - and then we fall in love and we realize, Okay, this is actually really, really hard work. This guy doesn't just tell me I'm great every day, you know? ↗

— Jewel

#care #children #day #every #every day

A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death! ↗

— Sonia Johnson

#death #friend #glad #going #i

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#animal #being #cage #caged #dead

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#carefree #darker #grew #had #happy

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too! ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#believe #believing #enough #enough people #fabulous

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music. ↗

— Adam Jones

#just #just be #music #should #then

There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#chance #children #film #great #only

Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds. ↗

— Star Jones

#know #lost #nine #now and then #period

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney. ↗

— Star Jones

#attorney #brooklyn #district #district attorney #division