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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.' ↗

— Al Yankovic

#bathroom #consciously #fantasies #going #had

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously. ↗

— Venus Williams

#first #i #job #seriously #sister

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#continuously #exercise #form #general #good

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#doing #find #go #had #i

You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time. ↗

— Evan Rachel Wood

#take #time #you #yourself

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#i #i think #irrational #seriously #take

There is something about the very idea of a city which is central to the understanding of a planet like Earth, and particularly the understanding of that part of the then-existing group-civilization which called itself the West. That idea, to my mind, met its materialist apotheosis in Berlin at the time of the Wall. Perhaps I go into some sort of shock when I experience something deeply; I'm not sure, even at this ripe middle-age, but I have to admit that what I recall of Berlin is not arranged in my memory in any normal, chronological sequence. My only excuse is that Berlin itself was so abnormal - and yet so bizarrely representative - it was like something unreal; an occasionally macabre Disneyworld which was so much a part of the real world (and the realpolitik world), so much a crystallization of everything these people had managed to produce, wreck, reinstate, venerate, condemn and worship in their history that it defiantly transcended everything it exemplified, and took on a single - if multifariously faceted - meaning of its own; a sum, an answer, a statement no city in its right mind would want or be able to arrive at. ↗

— Iain M. Banks

#cities #diziet-sma #mankind #marterialist-apotheosis #multifariously-faceted

Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated. ↗

— James Woods

#being #celebrated #celebration #celebrity #even

And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#criticized #i #i think #look #object

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#buildings #criticized #i #incorporating #our