"I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also."

-- Indro Montanelli

“I am never afraid of what I know.”

Source : Anna Sewell (1895). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.145
“I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.”
“When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy Technicolor bricks. You'll probably be kicked to the ground 150 million times and told you're nuts by friends and strangers alike. As you progress you may feel lonely or terrified for your physical and emotional safety. You may overestimate your own capabilities or fail to live up to them, and you'll surely fall flat on your face once in a while.”

Source : Kelly Cutrone, Meredith Bryan (2010). “If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You”, p.13, Harper Collins
“Every experience permanently alters the way you perceive beauty”
“In some bigger cities, I don't think people really realize these structures were built for the Olympics.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.”
“Oh and P.S.? I am in dire need of more coffee. Industrial strength.”
“Not doing is not about immobility or giving up in despair. It is first and foremost about being able to be with, to accept fully, what is in this moment.”

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