- 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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a positive thinker. You have to have this positive energy to get somewhere.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The North Koreans or Chinese may have a million men in uniform but it's about how you perform.
- Equip
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- Nov 07, 2020
You shouldn't send people out to do a job which you cannot afford to equip them to do.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot not know history.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
- Grass
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- Nov 07, 2020