"Forcing me to figure out how to provide for myself was probably one of the best things my parents ever did for me."

-- Sophia Amoruso

#Parent Quotes #Figures Quotes

“We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.”

Source : "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com.
“If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.”
“Just have a Coke or something and watch the boys go past.”
“The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.”
“The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching back and back into ages that can but be surmised, is half-mystical in basis. The intoxication, at once so heady and so devout, is not the romantic melancholy engendered by broken towers and mouldered stones; it is the soaring of the imagination into the high empyrean where huge episodes are tangled with myths and dreams; it is the stunning impact of world history on its amazed heirs.”

Source : Rose Macaulay (Dame.), Roloff Beny, Constance Babington Smith (1977). “Roloff Beny interprets in photographs Pleasure of ruins”
“It's everything for me. Without figure skating, I am nothing.”
“There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.”
“My greatest influences in my sport have been two former number one English lady darts players, Deta Hedman and Mandy Solomons. Deta helped me at international events and both helped me to cope with the big occasion which gave me the confidence I needed to become a champion.”

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