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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
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fast pace of life doesn't give you much scope for wasting your time or wallowing in the past or regrets.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many things that make the moment for a submission. There is timing, muscle memory, a lot of times power. When you commit, you have to have power and technique. It has to be sharp.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to say jiu-jitsu is like mathematics. It has to be exact otherwise you don't have it.
- Fundamentals
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you look at athletes, they have fundamentals.
- Nov 07, 2020
Isaac Hayes told me once, 'There's no such thing as old-school. Either you went to school or you didn't.'
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing's promised. You got to go out there and earn it.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Potentially, you do inhabit different worlds. And while there are no specific roles I'm burning to play, as far as acting in the future goes, I'd really like to have done searing work.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A high-powered, successful woman doesn't necessarily have the same support behind her that a man in that position would. Plus, she's expected to be a domestic goddess, as well as the best wife, mother, friend, and lover. But it's not just in politics: you see it in acting, too, and in journalism.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't fake listening. It shows.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right now, the machine keeps us totally busy. If you don't react against it, you'll end up letting yourself go and become the perfect consumer. That's what they want.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only direction I can give to an actor, a good actor who knows his skills, is, 'Here are those words. They're yours. Make them yours. Don't tell the text but be the text.' That means you have to be the emotion of the text.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
A black character is much more than just a black character; he's a character, period. So show the world as it is. Even with all your artistic license, you make a political choice.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you stand up in the morning, you look in the mirror and say, 'I'm black.' No. You wake up and you see yourself as a human being in the world, but you raise discussion and raise aggression, the anger that you confront every day of your life, whether you want to or not.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020