- Love
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- 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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.
- Divisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think you're going to be seeing the U.S. employing large army divisions to deal with small terrorist groups again. I don't think they're going to be occupying foreign nations in order to dry up terrorist groups within them. I think that lesson has been learned.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.
- Good Actors
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- Nov 07, 2020
All good actors are very bright. You can't be stupid and a good actor. You may be inarticulate, you may not be highly educated, but all good actors are quick-witted, some of them dazzlingly so. All you do is guide them.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatre is castigated for wallowing in self-indulgence, but it's curiously unsentimental. You simply have to move on. Everything passes. Something in me likes that.
- Bush Administration
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- Nov 07, 2020
For eight years, you had the Bush administration with a very interventionist policy, driving into world affairs, driving primarily into the Islamic world, army first or fist first.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you look at Syria, and you look at all the militant groups on the ground, there are many groups in Syria that could pose a threat to the United States, not just Khorasan.
- Nov 07, 2020
Once you start bombing in Syria, when you start looking for targets, there will be a lot.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who we are - our personality, our character, our soul, if you like.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. invaded the wrong country, destroying an odious government that was not responsible for 9/11. I don't know how you recover from invading the wrong country, no matter how you spin it.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020