#aid

I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business. ↗

— Yvon Chouinard

#business #cut #dying #get #head

After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#aided #ancient #beneath #came #diligent

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India. ↗

— Julie Christie

#child #even #family #i #india

Therefore we have to go over the fact that all human beings are afraid by what is new. It is our work to convince them that they will enjoy it, and even if they don't, to allow us just for 14 days to create that work of art. ↗

— Christo

#allow #art #beings #convince #create

I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#after #aids #been #check #children

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#father #said #say #silly #silly thing

Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real. ↗

— Gianni Versace

#artists #chapel #doing #even #get

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#attention #ever #first #future #ironic

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. ↗

— John Henrik Clarke

#brought #conquerors #control #framework #hand

I never said I was a 'good girl.' I'm not a bad girl. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#bad girl #girl #good #good girl #i