"The artists who have inspired me the most in my life are the ones who have really had something to say and stand up for. That, to me, is part of being an artist-having the voice to express things that need to be verbalized and brought to light. Unfortunately, I don't think that's a priority for people, because the few artists who do have the nerve to take a stand for what they believe get shut down in a way."

-- Alicia Keys

#Believe Quotes #Artist Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.”
“I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.”

Source : "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.
“Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.”
“There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.”
“The more you lose, the more you don't win.”
“Grant me profits only, grant me the joy of profit made, and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer!”
“He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every country, in every time, had always shared one thing. We all had the Creator. We used different names, different faces, and different prayers, but God was the universal constant for man. God was the symbol we all shared...the symbol of all the mysteries of life that we could not understand. The ancients had praised God as a symbol of our limitless human potential, but that ancient symbol had been lost over time. Until now.”
“I think it is high time that Europe starts to understand that we do not rule the world anymore, and that some former European imperial powers can no longer impress their will on to others in far away places, and we must accept that football has moved away from being a European and South American sport: it has become the World Sport that billions of fans are excitedly following every week, everywhere in the world.”

Source : "Sepp Blatter admits Qatar World Cup error and backs winter switch" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2013.

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