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If we are to flourish as creative beings, if we are to grow into wholeness, we must bloom wherever we are planted.
I learned never to say, 'That's too tight.' If a woman puts it on and feels good about herself, then it's for her.
If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.
I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.
If the Chinese commit cyberwarfare against us, they are going to see cyberwarfare like they have never seen before.
If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.
If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter.
I wonder at what point my life swerved to avoid that, and if that life would have been nicer than the one I've got.
If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.
No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.
If you don't fight the system, you can either take advantage of the system or let the system take advantage of you.
However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.
We only do what feels right. If something feels forced or contrived, then we pull back. We remain the Foo Fighters.
It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.
If you really believe in yourself and your music that much, you're gonna do your thing, regardless what people say.
Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.'
Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.
Managing your time really means managing yourself. If your time is out of control, it means you are out of control.
All the laws of Nature exist inside us, and if we don't find them inside ourselves we will never find them outside.
If someone says something good or bad, or whatever they have to say about your song, you've just got to embrace it.
A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.
I don't blame anyone for not believing me, if I had not experienced it myself, I would not have believed it myself.
If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
My family has to be very patient living with me, if you're playing a part that's not you. You have to get it right.
If I knew exactly what I know now and had it to do over, I'd be a switch hitter. No telling what I could have done.
If you're in a relationship and someone was cheating, it could be a complete reflection of the relationship itself.
Buddha is pretty funny. Buddha is the coolest, though. If I had to go with one, I'd probably party with the Buddha.
Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone.
If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.
If you are losing your peace in your quest for peace, you are not on the road to peace. The road to peace is peace.
You don’t need to seek opportunity. All you have to do is seek God. And if you seek God, opportunity will seek you.
No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.
I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.
It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.
People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.
Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must. Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.
I can be capable of anything if I allow myself to be. I really realized what an obstacle I was being in my own life.
Repressively, Lymond himself answered. “I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody ‘got’ me,” he said.
If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while.
After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.
If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.
If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.
You do not need to let anything get you down, but if you are down you certainly need not let anything keep you down.
The only thing I can't control is the spin in the press. And so if I know I can't control that, I have to let it go.
I think everything you do in your life affects you creatively. Especially in music, if you do another thing musical.
There are 3 rules to follow if you want to change; (1) Start immediately, (2) Do it flamboyantly, (3) No exceptions.
I just have this feeling that if it weren't for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer.
Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
If you don't do what Fear says...you'll go ahead and speak up, you'll sign up, you'll buy, you'll sell, you'll jump.