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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
I've often had people ask me, would you allow a homosexual to be your friend. Yes, I will. And the reason I will is because I know that that person has problems, and if I can minister to those problems, I will.
- End Of The Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, that's natural. The instinct to score comes naturally and if you have it, you've got to go to it.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up playing on the streets, you made your name by talking mess and getting into people's heads.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don't know where to start.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you retire, you don't get fat and old. C'mon: it's like a shark. Sharks never stop swimming; that's when they die. You gotta keep moving.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have cancer, it's like you enter a new time zone: the Cancer Zone. Everything in the Tropic of Cancer revolves around your health or your sickness. I didn't want my whole life to revolve around cancer. Life came first; cancer came second.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
You look at the pioneers that have paved the way for players like myself. Sometimes, you just sit back and scratch your head.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come and go as the weeks pass, but a book needs to be timeless.
- Nov 07, 2020
You don't want to bring attention to yourself; you want to bring attention to the team.
- Cry
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's OK to let your children see you cry.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020