"We all get intimidated by showing ourselves, for……" — Tori Amos
"We all get intimidated by showing ourselves, for whatever reason, we think, If I really show who I am, and someone goes [pfftt] then it's gonna crush me. Well, it's not gonna crush me. It doesn't crush you if somebody does that- somebody will do that. Many times. And once you accept that that's not why you're doing it, you're doing it because that's your form of expression."
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288 Quotes by Tori Amos
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Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained.
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So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar…
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The pop world has really opened its doors.
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The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been…
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There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.
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There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing…
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There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they…
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This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had…
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To me glamour isn't about being sparkly.
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Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle…
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Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
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