People that come to my shows are definitely people that feel outsiders. They feel like I don’t feel sexy, I don’t feel like – I can’t go out every night on Friday and I can’t connect to that, and I feel so much pressure to do that.
EMELI SANDEThe dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.
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Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.
DAVE GROHL -
I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD -
The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.
F. H. BRADLEY -
Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.
CHARLES STANLEY -
I really do live for the future, because when I’m eating a box of candy, I can’t wait to taste the last piece.
ANDY WARHOL -
I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
SYLVIA PLATH -
I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
TOM PETERS -
Their every instinct – and I have to say this is without exception – is to iron out the bumps, and It’s always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.
ADRIAN GOSTICK -
Motivation gets you through the day, but inspiration lasts a lifetime.
NICK VUJICIC -
Inside I have been a stabber, a screamer, a die-er from way back.
BENITA VALENTE -
But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
SAINT PETER -
I cherish all of the times I’ve fallen on my face and made mistakes, because those experiences have made me who I am.
GINNIFER GOODWIN -
Hungry bellies have no ears.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
ADRIENNE RICH -
Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture’s prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog.
BEN LERNER