"I want to be someone who is respected and not just in terms of my music. I want to be respected in terms of the way that I treat people... Music is my creative outlet in terms of expressing what is important to me; what has importance, what has a value. And I wanna be respected for that."

-- Macklemore

#People Quotes #Creative Quotes #Important Quotes

“A pair of dolphins swept by us in the water, flicking their heads out to get a look at us as they went. One of them made a chittering sound that wasn't very melodic. The other twitched its tail and splashed a little water our way, all in good fun. They weren't the attractive Flipper kind of dolphins. They were regular dolphins that aren't as pretty and don't get cast on television. Maybe they just refused to sell out and see a plastic surgeon. I held up a fist to them. Represent.”
“No one is you, and that is your power.”
“A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love...”
“I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.”

Source : "Q&A: Catherine Keener, Nicole Holofcener: 'Enough Said' Duo Talk Their Unique Alliance". Interview with Ramin Setoodeh, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 1, 2013.
“If you want to be rich, be friends with people who have the same mindset as you, or who at least won't try to change your mindset to be more like theirs. Life is too short to spend time with people who don't help you move forward.”
“It is not that the people want a BJP government or Modi as PM. The Nation wants to teach a lesson to those who have ruined the nation.”
“You don't have to let yourself be terrorized by other people's expectations of you.”

Source : Sue Patton Thoele (2016). “The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem”, p.39, Conari Press
“Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.”

Source : Octavia E. Butler (1998). “Parable of the Talents: A Novel”, p.187, Seven Stories Press

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