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40+ of 370Rabindranath Tagore
Music
Bengali Renaissance
1861–1941
"God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land."
93 quotes
🇺🇸Maya Angelou
Literature
1928–2014
"I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you." … There is an African saying which is: "Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."
33 quotes
Nicki Minaj
Music
b. 1982
"Dear first borns,especially daughters.God is your strength.That is all.You understand this tweet."
1 quotes

🇨🇦Catherine O'Hara
Entertainment
1954–2026
"I think everyone is born with humor, but your life can beat it out of you, sadly, or you can be lucky enough to grow up in it."
4 quotes

🇬🇧Harry Styles
Music
b. 1994
"That doesn't feel like politics to me. Stuff like equality feels much more fundamental. I feel like everyone is equal."
10 quotes
🇬🇧David Bowie
Music
1947–2016
"I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir."
21 quotes
🇺🇸Marvin Gaye
Music
1939–1984
"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."
3 quotes
🇺🇸Travis Barker
Music
b. 1975
1 quotes

🇺🇸Ariana Grande
Entertainment
b. 1993
"Music is something everyone on Earth can share. Music is meant to heal us, to bring us together, to make us happy."
4 quotes
🇧🇷Paulo Coelho
Science
1947–1985
"All my life I've learned to suffer in silence."
242 quotes
🇺🇸Bob Dylan
Music
b. 2000
"The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last"
308 quotes
🇺🇸Courtney Love
Music
b. 1964
"I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming."
56 quotes

🇺🇸Kid Rock
Music
b. 1971
"I once was lost, but now I'm just blind."
1 quotes
🇬🇧George Michael
Music
1963–2016
"I spent the first half of my career being accused of being gay when I hadn't had anything like a gay relationship. So I spent my years growing up being told what my sexuality was really— which was kind of confusing."
4 quotes
🇺🇸Dolly Parton
Music
b. 1946
"I look so totally artificial, but I’ve always been the simplest person in the world."
12 quotes
🇺🇸Katy Perry
Music
b. 1984
"This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy."
7 quotes
🇺🇸Henry Rollins
Entertainment
b. 1961
"I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain."
31 quotes
🇺🇸Billy Corgan
Music
b. 1967
"The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too."
37 quotes

🇺🇸Kurt Cobain
Music
1967–1994
"We're Nirvana and we really don't particularly like heavy metal."
73 quotes
🇺🇸George Harrison
Music
1943–2001
"If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there"
21 quotes
🇺🇸Anthony Kiedis
Music
b. 1962
"Music that I really love and believe in and think is extraordinarily honest and beautiful doesn't always become popular. ."
11 quotes
🇺🇸Phil Ochs
Music
1940–1976
"God isn't dead — he's just missing in action."
20 quotes

🇺🇸Bruce Springsteen
Music
b. 1949
"We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll."
19 quotes
🇺🇸Fred Rogers
Politics
1928–2003
"The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is."
23 quotes

🇺🇸John Perry Barlow
Literature
libertarian socialism
1947–2018
"John Perry Barlow: Wyoming's Estimated Prophet" - interview with Aaron Davis in Planet JH Weekly"
15 quotes
🇦🇺Daniel Johns
Music
b. 1979
"There's hopeless smiles better than mine"
45 quotes
🇬🇧Kazuo Ishiguro
Literature
b. 1954
"I won't be a carer any more come the end of the year, and though I've got a lot out of it, I have to admit I'll welcome the chance to rest."
33 quotes
🇬🇧Amy Winehouse
Music
1983–2011
"I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway."
7 quotes
🇺🇸Tyler Perry
Entertainment
b. 1969
"I have to thank Eddie Murphy, 'cause after I saw him do the Klumps , I said, "I'm going to try my hand at a female character." It was the brilliance of Eddie Murphy. I need to write him a check. Say thank you"
11 quotes
🇺🇸Gwyneth Paltrow
Entertainment
b. 1972
"Today, the power of women rings a bit differently and you can feel the shift."
27 quotes

🇺🇸Demi Moore
Literature
b. 1962
"You could either be trapped by what was going on around you, or you could find a way out. I think that everything, even if it is scary or good, comes into our life to help elevate and expand us as human beings."
6 quotes
🇺🇸Fiona Apple
Music
b. 1977
"I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic."
12 quotes
🇺🇸Will Smith
Music
b. 1968
"Aaaah. It's Rewind time. If I could controlled Rewind I would want Fortnite and Marques Brownlee."
7 quotes
🇮🇪Niall Horan
Music
b. 1993
"You'll never love yourself half as much as I love you and you'll never treat yourself right darling but I want ya too if I let you knoooowww Im here for you then maybe you'll love yourself like I love you ohhhhh"
3 quotes
🇺🇸Psy
Music
b. 1977
"I have twins. They are 4 years old. They know the word 'concert,' so they know father's job is 'concert,' and they prefer concert father."
7 quotes
🇺🇸Nas
Music
b. 1973
"I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings"
24 quotes
🇬🇧Natalie Imbruglia
Music
b. 1975
"It can take up to 100 chinchillas to make one coat and Jennifer Lopez has one made of 80 of them, all killed by electrocution or having their necks snapped. … Besides, wearing fur makes you look like an old woman!"
2 quotes
🇬🇧The Edge
Music
b. 1961
"For me, that term "pop" is like a candy bar. You buy it because you like it, you eat it, and then you throw it away. It has no long-term meaning or value."
10 quotes
🇳🇴Alexander Rybak
Music
b. 1986
"Your boyfriends might be angry, my girlfriends might be blue. But no one can deny it, from now on I love you."
2 quotes
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🇺🇸Roger Lewis
Literature
1912–1987
"I'm sure he's a nice old codger really, but the less said about self-proclaimed genius Horovitz the better."
2 quotes