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“My big awakening happened when I was fourteen. I'd been trying to get into this older girl's pants for a while, and she finally let me come over to her house. We hung out, smoked some pot and listened to Aerosmith's Rocks. It hit me like a fucking ton of bricks. I sat there listening to it over and over, and totally blew off this girl. I remember riding my bike back to my grandma's house knowing that my life had changed. Now I identified with something.”
― Slash

“You should have felt the buzz the moment all five of us got together in the same room for the first time again. We all started laughin'—it was like the five years had never passed. We knew we'd made the right move.”
― Steven Tyler

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.”
― Bette Midler

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Never judge a book by its price!”
― Claire Hamelin Manning

“After The Rain, comes the sun.”
― Jason R. Hemmings

“The past has no power over the present moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“There was a black cat before Black Panther. He was Lion Man and he was created, written and published by black people.”
― Demetrius Sherman, Black Comic Book History : Bonus: Superheroes who Protect Africa

“The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“The biggest challenge after success is learning how to share it.”
― Scott Levy, Tweet Naked: A Bare-All Social Media Strategy for Boosting Your Brand and Your Business

“Sometimes we don’t understand certain things, and all we can do is give life our best and keep moving forward. Maybe someday we’ll look back, and it’ll all make sense.”
― Judy Keeslar Santamaria, Jetty Cat Palace Café

“She loaded 'Gypsy', her favorite Fleetwood Mac song, into the CD player and remembered dancing to the magical rhythms and harmonizing with her mother so long ago, virtually levitating as though the song lifted them, weightless as roof angels, above the living room floor.”
― Judy Keeslar Santamaria, Jetty Cat Palace Café