- Good
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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
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much.
- Funny Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.
- Dearly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry. It's boring, it's anti-social, it's unproductive and it's depressing.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over 'The Wall Street Journal' or the 'Financial Times' and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't talk about myself in the third person. When I start doing that, you'll know I'm having an out-of-body experience.
- Humanitarian
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't expect humanitarian and development agencies to rebuild Syria. There is not enough money. There is not enough capacity. There are not enough skills.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
My name is on the door, and I care very much about the design that gets put out. I'm sorry, but it has to be my way. You learn that by working for people like I. M. Pei. You think he isn't a design tyrant? Is Calvin Klein a tyrant? When it came to his dresses, he had to be.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you back out of a convention... you can't dodge your obligation. Torture is still not acceptable.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020