- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.
- Nov 07, 2020
Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.
- Excellence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Ronald Reagan's chaotic childhood, the imagination was armor. There is nothing unusual about that; transcending the doubts, hesitations, and fears swirling around you by casting yourself internally as the hero of your own adventure story is a characteristic psychic defense mechanism of the Boy Who Disappears.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you coach Russ Smith, you have a nervous breakdown on every possession. He's not from a different country. He's from a different planet.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're 5 ft. 5 in., have a round Jewish face and wear glasses and refuse to wear contacts, you're going to get offered certain parts. People thought of me as the nerdy guy, even in non-nerdy parts like 'Parenthood.' I didn't feel the need to change anything I was doing - I embraced it.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and, if you look at country, Roger Miller and Jim Stafford.
- Difficult Things
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- Nov 07, 2020