Taylor Swift, born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania, is a highly successful American singer-songwriter. Her self-titled debut album in 2006 marked the beginning of her rise to fame, featuring hits like “Teardrops on My Guitar.” Swift initially embraced country music but later shifted to pop with albums such as “1989” (2014) and “Reputation” (2017). Known for her autobiographical songwriting, she has received numerous awards, including multiple Grammy Awards. Swift is recognized not only for her musical talent but also for her philanthropy and advocacy work, addressing issues like gender equality and LGBTQ rights. Beyond music, she has been an influential voice in social and political arenas.
Taylor Swift Quotes
1. “Just be yourself, there is no one better.”
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2. “Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear.”
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3. “People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.”
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4. “This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”
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5. “If you’re lucky enough to be different, never change.”
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6. “Never believe anyone who tells you that you don’t deserve what you want.”
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7. “Giving up doesn’t always mean your weak . Sometimes you’re just strong enough to let go.”
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8. “No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”
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9. “If somebody hurts you, it’s okay to cry a river. Just remember to build a bridge and get over it.”
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10. “Being fearless is having a lot of fears, but you jump anyway.”
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11. “I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.”
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12. “Life isn’t how to survive the storm, it’s about how to dance in the rain.”
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13. “You have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.”
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14. “Don’t ever regret being honest. Period.”
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15. “If they don’t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.”
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16. “I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.”
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17. “I think every girl’s dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.”
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18. “I think I fell in love with words before I fell in love with music.”
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19. “I miss you more than the sun misses the sky at night.”
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20. “A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.”
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21. “People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.”
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22. “We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.”
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23. “Every one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of. ”
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24. “Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn’t need a man; be that girl who never backed down.”
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25. “If you’re horrible to me, I’m going to write a song about it, and you won’t like it. That’s how I operate.”
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26. “You can’t have a better tomorrow if you keep thinking about yesterday.”
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27. “People throw rocks at things that shine.”
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28. “Sometimes the person you’d take a bullet for is the person behind the trigger.”
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29. “Let go of people who bring you down, and surround yourself with those who bring out the best in you.”
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30. “Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you’ll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.”
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31. “I don’t think you should wait. I think you should speak now.”
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32. “There’s more to life than dating the boy on the football team.”
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33. “In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on.”
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34. “Being FEARLESS isn’t being 100% Not FEARFUL, it’s being terrified but you jump anyway…”
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35. “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.”
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36. “Be the fearless girl that everyone knows would dare to do anything.”
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37. “It’s hard to fight when the fight ain’t fair.”
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38. “Don’t worry. You may think you’ll never get over it. But you also thought it would last forever.”
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39. “I don’t know if you know who you are, until you lose who you are.”
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40. “Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.”
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41. “Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.”
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42. “I’m only me when I’m with you.”
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43. “And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.”
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44. “Here I was again tonight forcing laughter, faking smiles Same old tired, lonely place.”
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45. “Why leave when you can stay, why stay if you have to go.”
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46. “Happiness can be reached by choice and how you look at life.”
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47. “The lesson I’ve learned the most often in life is that you’re always going to know more in the future than you know now.”
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48. “Keeping your emotions all locked up is something that’s unfair to you. When you clearly know how you feel. You should say it.”
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49. “And I’m dying to know, is it killing you like it’s killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.”
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50. “People say you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone, but the truth is you just never thought you’d ever lose it.”
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51. “The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it’s beautiful, wonderful, don’t you ever change.”
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52. “It’s a love story, baby, just say, Yes.”
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53. “I’ve found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you’re supposed to be.”
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54. “I’d like to be my old self again but I’m still trying to find it.”
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55. “There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson.”
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56. “Just being a human being, I’ve realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, before every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you could’ve just said no.”
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57. “To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.”
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58. “The term trying to forget someone is so awful because you’ll never forget someone if you’re trying to forget them.”
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59. “The world doesn’t owe you anything. You have to work for everything you get and you have to appreciate every bit of success the world gives you.”
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60. “I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.”
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61. “I think it’s important that you know that I will never change. But I’ll never stay the same either.”
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62. “There is a time for silence. There is a time for waiting you turn. But if you know how you feel and you so clearly know what you need to say you’ll know it. I don’t think you should wait. I think you should speak now.”
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63. “Darling I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream.”
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64. “Never forget the essence of your spark!”
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65. “Now stand in the corner, and think about what you’ve done!”
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66. “Give me something that’ll haunt me when you’re not around…”
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67. “My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.”
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68. “Band-Aids don’t fix bullet holes. You say sorry just for show. You live like that, you live with ghosts.”
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69. “To truly love is to have the courage to walk away and let the other person who wishes to be free go no matter how much it hurts.”
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70. “You learn lessons. A lot of them the hard way.”
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71. “So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I’m concerned you’re just another picture to burn.”
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72. “I’ve apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another.”
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73. “She can’t see the way your eyes will light up when you smile…”
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74. “At some point you have to forget about grudges because they only hurt.”
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75. “Heartbreak is the national anthem. We sing it proudly.”
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76. “Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!”
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77. “Sometimes bravery is as simple as following your gut.”
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78. “I’m captivated by you, baby, like a firework show.”
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79. “When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I’m falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.”
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80. “We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.”
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81. “I’m shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town.”
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82. “You can write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day.”
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83. “Turns out freedom ain’t nothing but missing you…”
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84. “The only one who’s got enough of me to break my heart.”
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85. “You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter. You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.”
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86. “Maybe you’re not meant to fit in. maybe you’re supposed to stand out.”
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87. “Be yourself and the right people will love you.”
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88. “I took a chance, I took a shot And you may think I’m bullet-proof, but I’m not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground, I see who you are.”
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89. “It’s alright, just wait and see, your string of lights is still bright to me. Who you are is not where you’ve been. You’re still an innocent. It’s okay life is a tough crowd, 32 is still growing up now.”
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90. “You’ll always know more in the future than you know now.”
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91. “But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have ot believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That’s why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS.”
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92. “In high school, I used to think it was like so cool if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of that matters. These days I look for character and honesty and trust.”
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93. “But you held your pride like you should’ve held me.”
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94. “Romeo save me, I’ve been feeling so alone. I keep waiting for you, but you never come. Is this in my head? I don’t know what to think.”
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95. “Life is like walking you take one step at a time.”
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96. “Appreciate what you have while you have it.”
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97. “You can’t be in love with a Google search.”
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98. “My attitude has always been if you get better and you see success, that should motivate you to even work harder, so that’s kinda how I approach everything.”
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99. “My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.”
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100. “I’ve wanted one thing for me whole life and I’m not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains.”
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101. “You can spend so much time wanting someone and they can have absolutely no idea.”
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102. “Real love still happens sometimes. It’s not just something we make up when you’re nine. I have to believe that. You do too.”
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103. “In life, you learn lessons. And sometimes you learn them the hard way. Sometimes you learn them too late.”
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104. “If you can figure out how you’re feeling, then maybe you have a chance of getting over it.”
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105. “Bring on all the pretenders!”
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106. “You can never forget the people who were always there for you from the beginning.”
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107. “Love will find you when you least expect it.”
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108. “Just because as human beings, what we can’t have is what we reply in our head over and over again before we go to sleep.”
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109. “I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that’s it.”
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110. “Be yourself, chase your dreams, and just never say never. That’s the best advice I could ever give someone.”
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111. “Just because you make a good plan, doesn’t mean that’s what’s gonna happen.”
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112. “If something happens to me, you’re going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life.”
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113. “People put you down because you’re above them.”
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114. “I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers.”
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115. “Cause for a moment a band of theives in ripped up jeans got to rule the world!”
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116. “Be grateful more than anything in your life. If you have to put a priority on something, put a priority on what your thankful for and the people in your life that you’re grateful for.”
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117. “Seems like the only one who doesn’t see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you.”
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118. “Books train your mind to imagination to think big.”
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119. “At a certain point, if you chase two rabbits, you lose them both.”
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120. “Everything will be alright if we just keep dancing like we’re 22…”
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121. “People like you always want back the love they pushed aside. But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.”
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122. “One of the most important things about social media is knowing when to put the phone down and experience your life.”
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123. “There is nothing wrong with avoiding people who hurt you.”
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124. “All I know since yesterday is everything has changed.”
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125. “Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together.”
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126. “Live your life like you are 80 years old looking back on your teenage years.”
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127. “Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.”
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128. “There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.”
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129. “It’s pretty unhealthy to obsess over what people think about you.”
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130. “You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.”
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131. “In a relationship, each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.”
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132. “Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.”
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133. “You can stay the same person you’ve always been even if everything around you changes.”
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134. “To me fearless isn’t not having fears, it’s not that you’re not afraid of anything. I think that being fearless is having a lot of fears, but you jump anyway.”
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135. “I’m a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we’re blindly optimistic.”
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136. “Got a long list of ex-lovers, they’ll tell you I’m insane. But I got a blank space baby, and I’ll write your name.”
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137. “I never expected anything to be given to me.”
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138. “I’ve been my mom’s kitchen helper since I was a little kid.”
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139. “I’m gonna find someone someday who might actually treat me well.”
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140. “I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.”
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141. “Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger, and frustration.”
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142. “Be careful with what you say. A girl remembers everything.”
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143. “Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place, and I can picture it after all these days.”
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144. “Wasn’t it beautiful when you believed in everything?”
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145. “Money can’t buy you back the love that you had then.”
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146. “Time won’t fly it’s like I’m paralysed by it, I’d like to be my old self again, I’m still trying to find it.”
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147. “Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there’s no right answer.”
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148. “I don’t think it’s the most important thing in life to fit it. I think it’s the most important thing in life to dance to the beat of your own drum and to look like you’re having more fun than the people who look cool like they fit in.”
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149. “It’s possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people.”
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150. “We learned more from a 3-minute record than we ever learned in school.”
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151. “It took a while to understand the beauty of just letting go.”
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152. “I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.”
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153. “I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.”
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154. “You have to stop looking in the mirror and realize that your living for yourself, not other people.”
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155. “Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you.”
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156. “The longer you’re with the wrong person, you could be completely overlooking the chance to meet the right person.”
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157. “Unique and different is the next generation of beautiful.”
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158. “Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.”
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159. “If you go too far down the rabbit-hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.”
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160. “Sometimes in life you have to be your own best friend.”
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161. “The past is the past. Don’t let it kill you.”
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162. “I’m always going to be a hopeless romantic. Always.”
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163. “You will always be criticized and teased and bullied for things that make you different, but usually those things will be what set you apart. The things that set you apart from the pack, the things that you once thought were your weaknesses will someday become your strengths.”
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164. “I could make the bad guys good for a weekend.”
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165. “I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.”
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166. “Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street; faster than the winds, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly.”
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167. “But I got smarter, I got harder in the nick of time; honey I rose up from the dead, I do it all the time.”
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168. “The words you’ll most regret Are the ones that are left unsaid.”
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169. “People don’t take you seriously if you scream, if you raise your voice, especially when you’re a 19-year-old girl.”
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170. “If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.”
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171. “You only get so many firsts, each one is a blessing.”
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172. “Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.”
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173. “Sometimes the people you thought would be there forever somehow aren’t.”
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174. “Music can take you back in time to that place when you first fell in love and really haunt you.”
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175. “Words, how little they mean when they are too late.”
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176. “I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.”
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177. “Don’t find love, let it find you. It’s called falling in love because you don’t force yourself to fall, you just do.”
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178. “I don’t compete with other people in the industry, I compete with myself.”
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179. “We’re in our twenties and we don’t know anything and it’s awesome.”
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180. “I don’t think you should ever take life so serious that you forget to play.”
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181. “Fixing your heartbreak by getting into another relationship is not the way to live your life – you need to live it on your terms for a while.”
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182. “You’ve got every right to a beautiful life.”
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183. “We were built to fall apart and fall back together.”
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184. “You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.”
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185. “We are never out of the woods, because we are always going to be fighting for something.”
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186. “When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.”
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187. “You will never be able to find happiness if you stay attached to the wrong person and don’t move on.”
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188. “Some of the most beautiful people in the whole world wake up some days and they don’t think that they’re pretty.”
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189. “I want to make people feel things when they hear my music I want to give a song to someone who is going through a break up, I want to give a song to someone who loves someone and can’t tell them. A song for someone who has just fallen in love and a song for just people who are living their lives.”
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190. “Never be ashamed of trying. Effortlessness is a myth. The people who wanted it the least were the ones I wanted to date and be friends with in high school. The people who want it the most are the people I now hire to work for my company.”
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191. “In the middle of the night When I’m in this dream It’s like a million little stars Spelling out your name.”
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192. “In my mind, I see all of my passionate memories in bright, burning Red.”
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193. “I want to wear his initial on a chain around my neck not because he owns me but cuz he really knows me, which is more than they can say. – Call It What You Want.”
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194. “I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.”
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195. “I want to build a life with someone that’s based on their dreams as well as my dreams. I think that the idea of finding another person to share with is the most fascinating, beautiful quest you could ever be on in life.”
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196. “I’d rather be at home and eat ice cream than go out and get wasted.”
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197. “I want to be defined by the things that I love. Not the things I hate, not the things I’m afraid of, not the things that haunt me in the middle of the night. I, I just think you are what you love.”
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198. “Letting go is fearless. Then, moving on and being alright, that’s fearless too.”
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199. “No amount of vintage dresses gives you dignity.”
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200. “The trials and tribulations in your life make you stronger.”
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