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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have been fed so many false narratives, many of them racialized to deliberately feed a racist agenda. It's important to address and dig into that wherever you can.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you hear composer, you think, like, Beethoven: guy in a powdered wig, at a piano, furiously scribbling on manuscript paper. That's not the only image that a composer should bring up, you know. But that's kind of what we've said it is.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he lived.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In rural North Carolina, you can get lots of great advice about how to clean and quarter a deer carcass, but we didn't really have anyone to ask for video advice, so we just kept learning through trial and error.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To sit in my concert and be uncomfortable is brave. Because you could always leave, you know?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who have incredible stories that we don't talk about. People who did amazing things, men and women who faced incredible odds, and there's nothing wrong with them being heroes for once, you know?
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that feeling of being thrown into the deep end and doing something you never thought you would accomplish is really powerful.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people worry about our federal deficit, but I, I worry about our bravery deficit. Our economy, our society - we're just losing out because we're not raising our girls to be brave. The bravery deficit is why women are underrepresented in STEM, in C-suites, in boardrooms, in Congress, and pretty much everywhere you look.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coding, it's an endless process of trial and error, of trying to get the right command in the right place, with sometimes just a semicolon making the difference between success and failure. Code breaks and then it falls apart, and it often takes many, many tries until that magical moment when what you're trying to build comes to life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moment you start thinking about what other people and other artists think, you're going to start writing like other people.
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- Nov 07, 2020