I have made a very good living, for more than 30 years, by being underestimated.
Helmut Kohl
Recitation: by Male by Female
I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.
John Candy
MyselfFreeThoughtArmyLoseHere
My dad played a little bit of piano and guitar, but not that professionally. I saw him play, and I said, 'I want to play. I want to try this instrument.'
Joey Alexander
GuitarPlaySaidWantTryHim
With each book, I'm trying to do something that terrifies me.
Andrew Sean Greer
MeBookTryingSomethingEach
I love doing music, and I plan to do it until I die or as long as I can walk to the piano.
Andrae Crouch
LoveMusicWalkDieDoingPlan
As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the fact that my mother was always discussing things with my sister and me - also because I read a lot.
Tracy Chapman
MotherChildMeSisterThinkAlways
I didn't say I have to be a writer, but I did say that I needed to publish at least one book.
Tomi Adeyemi
BookSayPublishWriterDidLeast
My husband recently made me try on a bikini. A bikini is not so much a garment as a cloth-based reminder that your parts have been migrating all these years. My waist, I realized that day in the dressing room, has completely disappeared beneath my rib cage, which now rests directly on my hips. I'm exhibiting continental drift in reverse.
Mary Roach
DayMeHusbandNowTryDressing
One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you're young, you think everything has to be binary, as that's exactly how you feel at that age.
Min Jin Lee
LifeAgeTogetherGetting OlderYou
You can really only enjoy life when you're extremely busy.
Josephine de La Baume
LifeEnjoy LifeBusyEnjoyYouOnly
The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
Breyten Breytenbach
PowerWorldAmericaGoalDangerous
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
Bob Dylan
TruthLieWorldUpBigAdds
Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.
Antony Gormley
JoyLookingThinkEasyProfessional
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