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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuries. You're only as good as your legs, whether you're an athlete or an actor.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever you want, Islam or Christianity, but if you have a system in which God is distant and angry all the time, and you're trying to please him through the right disciplines, it isn't going to work for everyone.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started volunteering at an animal shelter, and little by little, my life started getting better. I think that is the secret. It is just being on a mission that is something bigger than me and it's thankless. You do that because it is thankless, and I am not looking for anybody to say, 'Thanks' and 'You are great!'
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on nature's own hues and tints.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020