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I believe we all have one true love, somewhere in this world I do.
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Britney Spears
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Bottom line: If you love yourself, it will all work out.
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Britney Spears
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The saddest part to me was that what I always wanted was a dad who would love me as I was—somebody who would say, “I just love you. You could do anything right now. I’d still love you with unconditional love.
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Britney Spears (The Woman in Me)
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It’s weird like, you can see the cruelest part of the world. The cruelest part. But then on the other side you see the most beautiful part, do you know? And it’s like you go from one extreme to the next and they’re both worth it, because you wouldn’t see one without the other. But that cruel part, is damn cruel and you’ll never forget it. But that heaven…is heaven.
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Britney Spears
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I know you don’t believe me, but I really have loved you since we were kids,” he said quietly.
“And now I get to love you ’til we’re old.”
My stomach fluttered. No one else had ever loved me as much as he did. “Promise?”
Trenton smiled with tired eyes. “Yes. And then I’ll promise you again after I dance around in a
thong to Britney Spears.
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Jamie McGuire (Beautiful Oblivion (The Maddox Brothers, #1))
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Our love is strong. Why carry on without me?
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Britney Spears
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With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an amazing feeling.
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Britney Spears
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Step 6: Stop enjoying things ironically. Just enjoy them
Know what? I love Britney Spears and Forever 21. And I could pretend like it’s this whole meta thing where I’m not actually enjoying it but rather just making this esoteric statement on lowbrow culture, but (insert handjob motion here).
The truth is that I love trashy dance pop and the garments that are its clothing equivalent. You don’t need to make your tastes a self-conscious statement about who you are. Just unapologetically like the things you like.
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Kelly Williams Brown (Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps)
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The magazines seemed to love nothing more than a photo they could run with the headline “Britney Spears got HUGE! Look, she’s not wearing makeup!” As if those two things were some kind of a sin—as if gaining weight was something unkind I’d done to them personally, a betrayal.
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Britney Spears (The Woman in Me)
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My freedom in exchange for naps with my children -- it was a trade I was willing to make. There is nothing I love more -- nothing more important to me on this earth -- than my children. I'd lay down my life for them.
So, I thought, why not my freedom?
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Britney Spears (The Woman in Me)
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It was a huge loss for me. I didn’t understand how being with someone I loved could be considered dangerous.
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Britney Spears (The Woman in Me)
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I became pregnant with Justin’s baby. It was a surprise, but for me it wasn’t a tragedy. I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day.
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Britney Spears (The Woman in Me)
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Good-girl-gone-queer Lindsay Lohan, divorced single mother Britney Spears, Caitlyn Jenner with her sultry poses, Kim Kardashian having the gall to show up on the cover of Vogue with her black husband: All of them are tied to the tracks and gleefully run over, less for what they've done than for the threat they pose to the idea that female sexuality fits within a familiar and safe pattern. If control over women's bodies were the sole point of the trainwreck, that would be terrifying enough. But it's only the beginning: Shame and fear are used to police pretty much every aspect of being female. After you've told someone what to do with her body, you need to tell her what to do with her mind.
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Jude Ellison S. Doyle (Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why)
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When it comes to fans, people sometimes ask me about my special relationship with the gay community.
For me, it's all about love - unconditional love.
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Britney Spears (The Woman in Me)
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I loved the women in my family. My aunt Sandra,
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Britney Spears (The Woman in Me)
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After that, I was messed up for a while, especially because I still did love Justin so much. It was insane how much I loved him, and for me it was unfortunate. I should have seen the breakup coming, but I didn’t.
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Britney Spears (The Woman in Me)
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A court-appointed parenting coach said that I loved my children and that we were clearly bonded. She also said that there was nothing at all in my home that could be called abuse.
But that part didn’t make headlines.
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Britney Spears (The Woman in Me)
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There were a couple of times during our relationship when I knew Justin had cheated on me. Especially because I was so infatuated and so in love, I let it go, even though the tabloids seemed determined to rub my face in it.
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Britney Spears (The Woman in Me)
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Now I see even more clearly that he was self-medicating after enduring years of abuse at the hands of his father, June. At the time, though, I had no idea why he was so hard on us, why nothing we did seemed to be quite good enough for him. The saddest part to me was that what I always wanted was a dad who would love me as I was—somebody who would say, “I just love you. You could do anything right now. I’d still love you with unconditional love.” My dad was reckless, cold, and mean
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Britney Spears (The Woman in Me)
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I am always happiest when I love things. And when you begin to stop listening to pretentious blowhards, it's amazing what you make room to care about. So say what you want - I can't hear anyone over my Best of Britney Spears mix anyway.
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Anne T Donahue (Nobody Cares: Essays)
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My thing was to steal the ball away from an opposing player mid-dribble, run down, and make a layup. I loved the thrill of quickly weaving around the other team. Just the rush of no script, the play being unpredictable, completely unknown, made me feel so alive. I was so small and so sweet that no one saw me coming.
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Britney Spears (The Woman in Me)
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The magazines seemed to love nothing more than a photo they could run with the headline “Britney Spears got HUGE! Look, she’s not wearing makeup!” As if those two things were some kind of a sin—as if gaining weight was something unkind I’d done to them personally, a betrayal. At what point did I promise to stay seventeen for the rest of my life?
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Britney Spears (The Woman in Me)
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What he did to you wasn’t your fault, and it makes me hate him, not you. I’m pretty sure I’ve loved you since I first saw you dancing around in your yard to Britney Spears, your pigtails bouncing around in your face.” She laughs and wipes at her face. “I understand why you didn’t tell me, but I wish you had.
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Dana Isaly (Secrets We Hunt (One Night, #2))
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I know that a lot of people don't understand why I love taking pictures of myself naked or in new dresses. But I think if they'd been photographed by other people thousands of times, prodded and posed for other people's approval, they'd understand that I get a lot of joy from posing the way I feel sexy and taking my own picture, doing whatever I want with it.
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Britney Spears (The Woman in Me)
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Some of my favorite nights were when I would go out with my dancers. One time in Europe we went to a gay club where I felt like everyone around me on the dance floor was so tall. The club played great electro dance music and I loved it. I danced until six o'clock in the morning and felt like it went by in two seconds. My heart was so alive. It was like the mystical time in Arizona - it was a spiritual experience to be with people who I could feel loved me unconditionally. With friends like that, it doesn't matter what you do or say or who you know. That's true love.
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Britney Spears (The Woman in Me)
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My freedom in exchange for naps with my children - it was a trade I was willing to make. There is nothing I love more - nothing more important to me on this earth - than my children. I'd lay down my life for them.
So, I thought, why not my freedom?
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Britney Spears (The Woman in Me)
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I had no idea why he was so hard on us, why nothing we did seemed to be quite good enough for him. The saddest part to me was that what I always wanted was a dad who would love me as I was—somebody who would say, “I just love you. You could do anything right now. I’d still love you with unconditional love.
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Britney Spears (The Woman in Me)
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At one point when we were dating, I became pregnant with Justin’s baby. It was a surprise, but for me it wasn’t a tragedy. I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I’d anticipated. Besides, what was done was done. But Justin definitely wasn’t happy about the pregnancy.
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Britney Spears (The Woman in Me)
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I fear our sad culture has replaced the servants with the stars and that we need to refocus. If you've been unfortunate enough to read scandalous headline in the checkout line lately, I think you agree.
Recently I began receiving phone calls from the editorial staff st Life & Style, a Hollywood tabloid, asking me to comment on various goings-on in the unnatural lives of celebrities like Brad Pitt, Britney Spears, and Angelina Jolie. I joked with them a little, then asked why they'd called me. "You're on file as one of our experts," an editor said. I'm not sure if she could hear me laughing.
At this time in my life, I cannot afford to be sidetracked by the trivial. If I am going to write about people, there needs to be some depth, some honor, something bothering on nobility. And that's what I found in the lives of [people] whose love for others propels me to love deeper.
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Phil Callaway (Family Squeeze: Tales of Hope and Hilarity for a Sandwiched Generation)
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I don't think you need a man in this world anymore; I think you just need yourself and a little love and a bath.
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Britney Spears
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Thomas Jefferson took one look at permissive Parisian women and, comparing them to pious American maidens, declared: “A comparison of amazons to angels!” (Too bad he didn’t live long enough to meet Britney Spears.)
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Debra Ollivier (What French Women Know What French Women Know Of Love, Sex and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind)
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I’d worked too hard to get here to ever give it up for a woman. Especially one who dressed like Britney Spears’ and Kurt Cobain’s love child.
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Danielle Lori (The Maddest Obsession (Made, #2))
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I’ve made music, traveled all over the world, become a mother, found love and lost it and found it again. It’s been a while since I felt truly present in my own life, in my own power, in my womanhood. But I’m here now.
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Britney Spears (The Woman in Me)