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Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

Tori Amos

You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
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Church Daughter People Play Separation
There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
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Different Thinking Two
In real life I’m bone dry and when I play I’m a mango and in sex I’m starving to be a dripping mango
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Play Real Sex
Look, I’m standing naked before you; Don’t you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can’t claim innocence.
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Looks Naked Sex
If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
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Challenges Deals Want
Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
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Jobs Perfect Work
My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.
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Beer Cob Corn Father
The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don’t believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don’t get confused.
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Art Believe Confused Source
Don’t give up. Don’t listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don’t get it tonight.
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Foolish Giving Minded Tonight
Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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Antlers People Sheep
If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
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Age Crystals Hippie
You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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Justify Pissed Off
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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Theme Thinking Variation
At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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Cook Macrobiotic Mother
The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, ‘Sometimes I just breathe you in.’
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Important Music Sometimes

Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

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Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

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