#you

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#cool #forehead #i #kind #make

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#celebrity #conditions #culture #deal #forces

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#every #i #life #magazine #magazine cover

I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#better #better place #i #i believe #i believe that

I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#been #could #destiny #guess #i

Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#being #book #book tour #brother #crash

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#colleagues #culture #even #fame #fulfilled

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#had #help #i #i was raised #moral

No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#another #breath #child #complacent #days

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#another #birthday #celebrating #only #part