Ayumi Hamasaki Quotes
I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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To be honest, what I struggled with in my degree is what's so helpful when it comes to social media in that I lack focus. I'll start reading about evolutionary biology and end up on quantum physics. While that makes writing your dissertation very difficult, for a page like IFLS, that's amazing because I get a wide range of everything.
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We have to start imagining a new reality - this will mean fewer police and more social workers and teachers. This will mean creating more economic possibilities and investment that preserves and does not displace our communities.
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People have to find ways of explaining the work.
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My performance outfits are very Marie Antoinette, sparkly corsets... and full skirts. And then we do another look that's '50s-inspired. Poufy skirts, big bows. Very fun, girlie and young, but otherwise, when I'm not in costume, I dress really normal.
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Writing 'Fast Life' has been an incredible experience. It's something totally different from what I am used to.
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I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.