“Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun.” IfsWantNeedsPlayFunPayRhythmHaving FunMusic Love Author:Eddie Van Halen
“Sick is a relative concept. We're all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves symptoms of sickness. You have to look at the context within which these actions are performed.” LooksActionDegreesBehaviorConceptsSickSicknessRelativeSymptomsDesirableFunctionality Author:Jo Nesbo
“It's important to me that people can associate being different with being beautiful.” PeopleImportantDifferentBeautifulAssociatesBeing DifferentBeing Beautiful Author:Andrej Pejic
“To all trans youth out there, I would like to say respect yourself and be proud of who you are. All human beings deserve equal treatment no matter their gender identity or sexuality. To be perceived as what you say you are is a basic human right.” HumansMatterHuman BeingsIdentityYouthProudEqualDeserveWho You AreGenderSexualityTreatmentBe ProudTransRespect YourselfGender IdentityEqual Treatment Author:Andrej Pejic
“All women have a complicated relationship to beauty, but as a transgender woman it's a bit more complicated. There's a lot of pressure to appear feminine. When I was younger, I was most insecure about my size, my angular features, my feet, my hands . At the end of the day, it's about being comfortable in your own skin, and being able to walk down the street and not have people question your gender - and, for me, being perceived as a woman.” PeopleEndsHandsAbleBitsWalksFeetStreetsComfortableSkinsPressureSizeComplicatedGenderFeaturesThe End Of The DayFeminineInsecureTransgenderComplicated RelationshipComfortable In Your Own Skin Author:Andrej Pejic
“Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.'” PeopleKnowsHas BeensMadeProblemInspirationJobsArtistCertainBornImaginationGroupsPoetCallingDifficultyCuriosityPrivilegeSolveChosenExclusiveSetbackSwarms Author:Wislawa Szymborska
“I can't sing “I Believe I Can Fly”. I sing that horrible. But I can sing “I Gotta Feeling” good. I wrote it for my capabilities. So I Gotta Feeling is just about let me make a song to inspire people to have a good time.” PeopleBelieveI CanFeelingsSongI BelieveInspireLet MeHorribleFeel GoodGood TimesCapabilityHaving A Good Time Author:will.i.am
“Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.” BlackVarietyGreat MenDialect Author:John H. McWhorter
“Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.” MeanLanguageLevelsEverydayCommandVocabularyLoving You Author:John H. McWhorter
“Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.” WayWritingSpeechTexting Author:John H. McWhorter
