"I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album."

-- Anita Baker

#Age Quotes #Albums Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“You have psychopaths and sociopaths in charge.”
“The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where? - and day by day hour by hour, with every beat of the pulse, one lost more and more of one's qualities, became less comprehensible to oneself, increasingly abstract.”
“As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like youâ€™re a kid again, poking around in your parentsâ€™ closet, only this time thereâ€™s no chance of getting in trouble, so you donâ€™t have to be so sure that everything gets put back exactly where it was before you did your poking around. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely change your conception of the parent you thought you knew.”

Source : "The Dinner Diaries" by Roz Chast, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2010.
“It has always been forever, for me, Sassenach”
“The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.”

Source : Louise L. Hay (1991). “The Power Is Within You”, p.22, Hay House, Inc
“If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.”
“Patience is the art of hoping.”

Source : Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”
“Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.”

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