"I'm very glad my mother didn't let me quit piano lessons at age 10. She said I wasn't old enough or good enough to make that decision, and she was right. I remember at the time I was shocked. I did not like that my mother said those things to me. But when I got a chance to play with Yo-Yo Ma or more recently with Aretha Franklin, I thought, I'm really glad she said what she did."

-- Condoleezza Rice

#Success Quotes #Mother Quotes #Play Quotes

“Drew a mustache on your picture, threw your ring away.”
“If I were making paintings of a bowl of fruit it would still be viewed through some sort of political lens, because the viewer wants to create a type of narrative around the political theme when they look at work depicting black and brown models.”
“I don't think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it's nice. It really is.”
“Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2009). “The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment”, p.87, Simon and Schuster
“Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.”

Source : Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.92, New Victoria Publishers
“Love will abide, take things in stride.”
“The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants.”

Source : Poul Anderson (2014). “The Avatar”, p.32, Open Road Media
“Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.”

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