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What holds me up is focus and determination, and this incredible ambition that just hasn’t subsided yet.

— Katy Perry Cosmopolitan magazine (2009)

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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.

Cosmopolitan magazine (2009)

I still needed to deal with all of my ex-husband stuff. I hadn't, It's almost like if I kept talking about it, it would seem like I actually cared about it. I don't.

Cosmopolitan magazine (2009)

Baby do you dare to do this?
Cause I’m coming at you like a dark horse.

I'm up to my hairline in planning. It's a lot, especially when you're a woman of detail.

Cosmopolitan magazine (2009)

If there had been a problem on the set, they would have said it to me at the outset. We had many different options.

Cosmopolitan magazine (2009)

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.

Jean de La Bruyère Les Caractères (1688)

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