Ayumi Hamasaki Quotes

There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.

An artist's responsibility is a lot. I can't deny and escape from the responsibility. You have to be very guarded about your personal behaviour, future plans, etc.

Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.

I live my life and I do what I do, and sometimes you forget that people are watching you.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

I do a lot of things for effect, which is not to say I am superficial, but that I know how to put ideas across.

I believe God is real, but I believe God calls me beyond myself to take responsibility for my life and to try top work to allow other people to be themselves and to take responsibility for their lives.

One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

I just worry because I know I say a lot, often. It doesn't bother me, it's more about the people that get affected around me.

Obviously, as somebody who is famous, I have a particular responsibility

How can people change their minds about us if they don't know who we are?

There was just this stage where I realised that people were listening to what I was saying and I could actually say something I believe in and, like... why wasn't I doing that? It's not because I think I have a responsibility as a pop star or whatever; it's because I think I have a responsibility as a human being.

All you can do is be your best self. I've always felt that I had to be that much more aware of how I present myself. I'm representing more than just me. I think every person should think that way.

We can't create change until we recognize and check our own actions.

I'm not saying I'm perfect. But I'm someone who analyses and reflects on what I do, whether it's in keeping with the ethics that I talk about in public. That's how I've been all my life.

As much as we don't like to admit it sometimes, we are the influencers.

It is interesting to watch yourself on a reality show. It makes you think about the things that you say and how what you meant to convey can be so easily miscommunicated and misunderstood.

If you want positive search results, do positive things. If you don't want negative search results, don't do negative things. To some of my colleagues across the aisle, if you're getting bad press articles and bad search results, don't blame Google or Facebook or Twitter. Consider blaming yourself.

Everybody has a responsibility for what they put out into the world. Rather than trying to figure out what other people should be doing, work on your own interactions in the world and whatever influence they have. All of it has an effect.

We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!