#real

Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board. ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#board #getting #girlfriend #great #i

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself. ↗

— David Petraeus

#advanced #afghanistan #aspirations #capacity #countries

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things. ↗

— Tom Petty

#does #encountered #heals #i #incredible

There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now. ↗

— Tom Petty

#eroded #everyone #integrity #now #own

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here. ↗

— Tom Petty

#around #falling #fifties #flies #get

Everything that people lob at you who don't know you, it all hurts. When you're doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn't hurt anyone - I mean, it's a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh. ↗

— Liz Phair

#back #doing #everything #five #hurt

Guys don't really don't wanna hear if it's really smart, and women feel uncomfortable if you reveal stuff they're going to have to remember they did themselves. ↗

— Liz Phair

#feel #going #guys #hear #really

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad. ↗

— Liz Phair

#bad #becoming #being #ended #i

I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff. ↗

— Liz Phair

#collaborating #difficult #fact #i #independence

I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#everything #i #i think #into #long