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I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#audience #beautiful #billie #billie holiday #cool

I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#art #course #dabble #different #doing

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science. ↗

— William Bernbach

#against #believing #i #science #warn

The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know. The hero journey is a symbol that binds, in the original sense of the word, two distant ideas, the spiritual quest of the ancients with the modern search for identity, always the one, shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find. ↗

— Phil Cousineau

#inspirational #mythology #change

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars. ↗

— Leo Baekeland

#because #dollars #eastman #had #i

The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#gospel #humility #pride #sin #age

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. ↗

— Joan Baez

#decide #die #get #going #how

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses. ↗

— Joan Baez

#hardest #know #oneself

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers. ↗

— Joan Baez

#get #hypothetical #questions

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry. ↗

— Joan Baez

#bring #compete #cry #getting #give